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Other Voices: DEI and our kids
Opinion, Сolumns
May 16, 2025
When I looked up DEI to understand what it was and why our country should be against it, I was really shocked. It sounds like a good thing to me. AI s...
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Free plane is an awful look
Opinion, Сolumns
May 16, 2025
President Donald Trump celebrates controversy. He also must revel in unnecessarily gifting his political opponents issues to exploit. That would appea...
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Other Voices: Save public media
Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2025
Recently, the current administration indicated that they want to eliminate all funding for America’s public TV and radio stations, going as far as tak...
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Trump’s budget erases DOGE savings
Opinion, Сolumns
May 15, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency says it has cut $165 billion of wasteful spending from the federal government, based on its self-reported numb...
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Traveling brings challenges and opportunities
Opinion, Сolumns
DEB WUETHRICH 
May 15, 2025
I am so tired! But it is a good tired. Yesterday on the road, I wanted to call it “exhaustion,” but that’s such a negative word, especially where ther...
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NPR’s trickle-up economics
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2025
National Public Radio frequently claims that less than 1% of its funding comes from the federal government, an argument used to criticize President Do...
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Biden 2.0: Dems throw Fetterman under the bus
Opinion, Сolumns
GUY CIARROCCHI RealClearPennsylvania 
May 14, 2025
“Truth is not a left-wing value.” Sadly, Dennis Prager’s teaching is correct. He could even consider a corollary: Integrity is not a left-wing value. ...
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Trump can show leadership on Nippon Steel deal
Opinion, Сolumns
JACK YOEST The Center Square 
May 14, 2025
Nobody likes to change their mind, but great leaders know that fluid situations require observing evidence on the ground to make the best decisions. T...
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Latest attacks on free markets
Opinion, Сolumns
May 14, 2025
It is somewhat bewildering to watch the Republican Party morph into an economically left-wing party without anyone really caring. But that’s what is c...
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Pa. Dems worried about Supreme Court retention votes
Opinion, Сolumns
GILLIAN McGOLDRICK The Philadelphia Inquirer 
May 13, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) —Pennsylvania'sbiggest race this election year won't be on the primary ballot. The candidates won't have political parties listed. An...
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Skill games company is Goliath
Opinion, Сolumns
PETE SHELLY, DICK GMEREK and SEAN SCHAFER 
May 13, 2025
Is there any wonder why state Sen. Gene Yaw is such an ardent supporter of skill games and Pace-O-Matic (POM), the largest distributor of these machin...
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Harvard and government funds
Opinion, Сolumns
May 12, 2025
Since 2017, Harvard University has received more money from the federal government than from its own students’ tuition, according to OpenTheBooks’ rev...
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Is there more to the Fetterman story?
Opinion, Сolumns
CHRISTOPHER NICHOLAS 
May 12, 2025
So the big recent exposé on Sen. John Fetterman in New York Magazine has many Republicans trying to excuse his erratic behavior by claiming his Senate...
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Much work remains on trade
Opinion, Сolumns
May 09, 2025
The Trump administration took a step Thursday toward quelling economic uncertainty by unveiling a trade deal with theUnited Kingdom. TheWhite Housepro...
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