Some pundits say that Democrats will win the midterms. MSNBC tells us, "Democrats are seeing momentum headed into midterms." Nancy Pelosi claimed, "We will hold the House by winning more seats!" Really? Want to bet? This fall, CNN's Douglas Brinkley said, "There is a blue wave going on right ...

PITTSBURGH — L. Hafer of the Pittsburgh Daily Post paid a visit way back on June 9, 1847, to Mercy Hospital, the Catholic hospital begun by the Sisters of Mercy, a religious congregation founded in Ireland. The hospital had just opened its doors four months earlier in a former concert hall ...

Truth is often difficult to express. To tell the truth is to acknowledge both successes and shortcomings. Tragically, failure has overtaken the truth, compelling politicians to spread lies and mislead the public in an effort to solidify their positions of power and garner support for their ...

Like Hilary Swank, you, too, can have your first baby at 48 years old. I just hope you don't bank on it. After Swank recently announced she was expecting twins, the website Jezebel posted about celebrities who had babies later in life. I worked my way through the article, shocked, as the ...

There is no love between Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, the two Republican senators from Utah. Lee, a conservative stalwart, has always sort of marched to his own drumbeat of conservative conviction. Lee, a personal friend, knows the Constitution perhaps better than anyone in Congress. However, he ...

Hospital rooms, operating rooms and medical equipment are so inadequately cleaned that any patient going into a hospital is at risk of getting a deadly superbug. That's true even if you're going for the happiest reason of all: to give birth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...