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Repeal the REAL ID mandate
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 22, 2022
You can postpone digging through your old piles of stuff to find your lost birth certificate to get a REAL ID card. To fly on a plane, the Department ...
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Twitter Files show Dem/Big Tech bond
Opinion, Сolumns
NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
Dec 21, 2022
DETROIT (TNS) — What we’ve learned from Elon Musk’s Twitter Files is what we’ve long suspected. The social media platform was run by progressives who ...
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Addicts, drivers benefit from new Pennsylvania laws
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Dec 21, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The Christmas season is a time to be cheery and celebrate the good things in life. So I will take a break from my running criticism ...
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Escalated war on abortion
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 21, 2022
Pro-life activists around the country — and particularly in the states that have enacted abortion restrictions or outright bans following the disastro...
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A way to help Ukrainian civilians under Russian fire
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Dec 20, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As Christmas approaches, readers have asked me how they can donate to charities that are helping Ukrainians. At a time when Russi...
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Toomey steady amid GOP hurricane
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 20, 2022
Pat Toomey joined the Senate in 2011 as a conservative but soon will depart as a moderate, despite remaining entirely consistent throughout his two te...
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Twitter’s silencing of Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Dec 19, 2022
During the run-up to the 2016 election, Donald Trump used Twitter brilliantly. He had a talent for writing messages that were interesting or outrageou...
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Biden pays off unions with bailout
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 19, 2022
Just because political graft is obvious doesn’t mean it’s any less odious. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden announced a $36 billion bailout for...
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Democracy around the world looking healthier
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 19, 2022
More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a “democratic recession.” Dozens of countries were drifting away from dem...
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Trump’s miserable month
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 18, 2022
So far, Donald Trump is having the worst campaign launch since Beto O’Rourke. Like almost everything else he’s done lately, his early announcement of ...
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Sinema’s switch and Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 18, 2022
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona woke up the political world with an announcement earlier this month. She changed her party affiliation, dropping t...
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Best advice? Stay out of Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Dec 16, 2022
If there’s one clear lesson from the Brittney Griner/Paul Whelan controversy that’s keeping partisans in America’s culture wars all worked up, it’s th...
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Define crypto, regulate it
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 16, 2022
Federal prosecutors and regulators lowered the boom this week on Sam Bankman-Fried, the architect of the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of the FT...
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Voters are fleeing both parties
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Dec 15, 2022
BOSTON (TNS) — The two major political parties’ long hold on America could be finally starting to slip, setting the stage for an exodus of disgruntled...
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Grow more teachers for Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2022
Pennsylvania has an urgent need to convince more high school students to return to classrooms as teachers. According to the U.S. Department of Educati...
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Political greed backfired for Pa. Democrats
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Dec 15, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — There are many things worth debating in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Which party is in charge of the state House right now is not o...
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