A lesson from the gun lobby by Gordon Tomb   A Wall Street Journal column by David Deming of the University of Oklahoma should be circulated among the management of every American energy company. In “What the Oil Business Could Learn from the NRA”, the writer asserts that the fossil-fuel industry repeatedly cedes the moral high ground to the ridiculous...

Defunding ObamaCare ObamaCare is now the law of the land and has been deemed constitutional by our Supreme Court. These are the facts, whether we like them or not. There is a last line of defense that can be used to stop the implementation of ObamaCare and that is by defunding it before it is too late. The current continuing resolution (CR) funding the...

Jan 5, 2013

Dateline January 4, 2013 On the day after they were sworn in as Pennsylvania’s two newest Republican Congressmen, Keith Rothfus and Scott Perry signaled that they are willing to buck John Boehner and the mainstream GOP establishment in order to achieve meaningful spending reductions. Both voted against sending $9.7 billion to the National Flood Insurance...

By Gordon Tomb Dan Focht recalls that Erie and the I-79 corridor extending south to Pittsburgh was “the injection mold capital of the world” supplying manufacturers with the formed components of their products — anything from the caps of toothpaste tubes to household containers and medical laboratory ware. Now, he laments that the “domestic supply...

Tea Party Alert By William E. Been* CREDO Mobile is now mailing advertising pieces into Pennsylvania promoting their 40% off phone service. Addressed: “Dear Fellow Progressive,” the ad then reads as follows: At CREDO, we’re part of a movement that’s fighting the Tea Party-driven forces—and the more people who sign up with us, the harder we fight...