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Welcome home, Marc Fogel
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 14, 2025
On Aug. 14, 2021, Russian authorities arrested Oakmont native Marc Fogel, a teacher who had done several stints educating American ex-pats in Moscow, ...
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Concern over tariffs is real
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 13, 2025
If we are to takeDonald Trumpseriously, we are to believe that he truly believes that tariffs are vital for the economic well-being of Americans. If w...
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DOGE makes math great again
Opinion, Сolumns
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Feb 13, 2025
President Trump is slapping America in the face. If we’re lucky, it will revive our sleepwalking nation. While cramming more action into a few hundred...
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Political lessons from another key Pa. county
Opinion, Сolumns
NICK KAYAL RealClearPennsylvania 
Feb 13, 2025
In Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Allegheny counties are the top two based on population. But in terms of a populous suburban area, Bucks County isn’t...
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Money for their old schools
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 12, 2025
All universities send emails and letters to their alumni in the hopes of securing donations for future students. Members of the House of Representativ...
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No, DOGE isn’t ‘unprecedented’
Opinion, Сolumns
HANS VON SPAKOVSKY and SETH LUCAS 
Feb 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like spoiled children finally told “no” by their parents, bureaucrats and beneficiaries of wasteful government largesse are howling...
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Warren increasingly unhinged, irrelevant
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 11, 2025
BOSTON (TNS) — Elizabeth Warrenis losing it, reduced to becoming an irrelevant complainer who does nothing for herMassachusettsconstituents while rail...
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Utilities can offer assistance
Opinion, Сolumns
MARK KEMPIC 
Feb 11, 2025
January’s potent one-two punch of bone-chilling temperatures and snow reminds us how important it is that Pennsylvanians have access to dependable uti...
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Pennsylvania’s energy mandate
Opinion, Сolumns
JIM WELTY 
Feb 11, 2025
The inauguration of President Donald Trump and the start of a new Congress mark a turning point for our nation’s energy future. With a renewed focus o...
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Inform ICE of immigrant arrests
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 10, 2025
It shouldn’t be controversial for law enforcement agencies to work together to protect the public. Yet, some people object to local police doing just ...
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Highest paid CBP employee
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 10, 2025
Alexander Eastman, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection acting chief medical officer, is accused of drinking while carrying a firearm and rewriting ...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci should come clean about COVID-19
Opinion, Сolumns
DR. CORY FRANKLIN Chicago Tribune 
Feb 10, 2025
CHICAGO (TNS) — Just before he exited the White House, one of President Joe Biden’s last official acts was to grant a preemptive pardon to Dr. Anthony...
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DHS employees’ 4-day week
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 07, 2025
During his four years, Mayorkas gave his employees more than six weeks in vacation time, at a cost to taxpayers of $3 billion, according to records re...
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There’s nothing green about the ‘green’ agenda
Opinion, Сolumns
STEVE MILLOY RealClearPolitics 
Feb 07, 2025
Now that the Democrats have lost their lock grip on power, what’s a green activist to do? It’s almost comical how the climate left is trying to cloak ...
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Gov. Shapiro staked a claim to the political center
Opinion, Сolumns
MIKE WERESCHAGIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 07, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Just months after voters delivered a devastating rebuke to his party in November, and asDemocratsaround the country are searching f...
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