There are few things that inspire a deeper sense of apprehension and dread in someone in recovery from a substance abuse disorder than the prospect of a major surgery. Rare is the recovering drug addict who doesn’t know a contemporary… Read More ›
Joe Manchin
Trust is Not a Word We Use Around Here: Life in Chemical Valley During West Virginia’s Water Crisis
Ask a random West Virginian over the age of 55 who the greatest President of their lifetime was and I’d bet you whatever money I had in my wallet that they’d tell you it was Jack Kennedy. Hell, ask their… Read More ›
A Tale of Two Senators: Rockefeller, Manchin & The West Virginia Chemical Spill
When it came out last week that an environmental scientist from Marshall University had found abnormal levels of Formaldehyde in a local water sample, I pretty much lost it. I suppose if I had received this news in a vacuum… Read More ›
Anatomy of a Crisis: Joe Manchin and The West Virginia Chemical Spill
It was over 177 years ago that Daniel Webster, the longstanding Senator from Massachusetts and perhaps the greatest orator our Nation’s legislative branch has ever known, appeared in the small town of Madison, Indiana to give a speech concerning the… Read More ›
No More Bullets: Is This The End of The Line For Senate Gun Control?
Despite the best efforts of Alanis Morissette and an entire generation of literarily-challenged youth who grew up believing that a dangling participle was a position in Kama Sutra involving a sex swing and large medicine ball, irony and coincidence are… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 