Opinion

Veterans’ hospital equipment is missing
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 17, 2025
The Veterans Health Administration has lost an estimated 5% of its reusable medical equipment worth at least $211 million — including exam tables, com...
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Talk to — not over — each other
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Sep 17, 2025
I can’t believe what I’m seeing with my own eyes, hearing with my own ears. Some in this country, the United States of America, are celebrating the as...
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Future Pa. congressional maps could be at stake this fall
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KATIE BERNARD The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep 17, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The future of Pennsylvania's congressional maps will be at stake this fall when voters decide whether to retain three state Supre...
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Other Voices: Power of the people
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 16, 2025
President Donald Trump now likes to play soldier, even though he received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War to avoid military service. Our ...
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Pa. high court should rule for residents, not RGGI
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MICHAEL STANTON and SHAWN STEFFEE RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 16, 2025
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state effort that was supposed to be good for consumers and go...
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Don’t let a generation lose faith in free speech
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MARY ELLEN KLAS Bloomberg Opinion 
Sep 15, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — The First Amendment is in a sorry state, especially on college campuses. A survey of students released last Tuesday from the Foundati...
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Can we ever have peace again?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Sep 14, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Spanish Civil War is distinctive, even among other civil wars, for its barbarism, and in particular the personal nature of the ...
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The many monsters outing themselves online
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 14, 2025
The social media age has made it possible for any person, at any time, to broadcast and publish their thoughts to the entire world with the push of a ...
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How’s the Pa. suburban political experiment going?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 12, 2025
Suburban Philadelphia voters are in the midst of a political science experiment — and they may not even be consciously participating in it. Today, Dem...
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Honor Charlie Kirk with fearless speech, unflinching debate
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MATT WYLIE, The State 
Sep 12, 2025
COLUMBIA, S.C. (TNS) — Twenty-four years ago, America came under attack when planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was an assault ...
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Other Voices: RIP Charlie Kirk
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 12, 2025
Charlie Kirk was one of the heroes of my son, George Wagner. A faith-believing, truth-talking, debating, political figure of sorts, Kirk debated with ...
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The painful lessons of Sept. 11
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 11, 2025
Thursday marked the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that shook the nation and changed the world. Nearly 3,000 people lost their liv...
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Charlie Kirk’s murder deserves only one reaction
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 11, 2025
There is only one appropriate reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation w...
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Buggy whips and AI chips in Pa.
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By KEVIN SUNDAY RealClearPennsylvania 
Sep 11, 2025
The buggy whip endures. Not, of course, as a commonly used piece of equipment to spur on a steed or two on your daily travels, but as a short-hand epi...
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With no taxes on tips, should we still tip as much?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DANIEL NEMAN  St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
Sep 10, 2025
(TNS) — Now that servers are not going to be taxed on their tips, do we still have to tip them as much? I’m sure that servers and hair stylists and ca...
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Democrats toy with shutting down government
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Sep 09, 2025
(TNS) — It’s time for a return of the country’s least favorite reality TV show — shutdown theater. To avoid a government shutdown, Congress must pass ...
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