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Will Traficant be taking the bus home?
There is talk, confirmed by at least one person close to James A. Traficant Jr., that the former congressman-turned-federal inmate wants to take the bus home when he is released from federal prison on Sept. 2. Traficant reportedly has told members of his family that he doesn’t want them to …
A namby-pamby statement on Traficant
Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras issued a statement about the impending release from federal prison of former Congressman-turned-criminal James A. Traficant Jr. that can only be described as a joke. It would have been better had Betras kept his mouth shut.A chairman is supposed to define the moral …
Medical malpractice or good medicine?
It's the elephant in the health care reform room that no one in Congress wants to acknowledge: One of the reasons America has the highest per capita health care cost in the world is because of the extraordinary medical efforts made to keep people alive even when letting them to …