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Democrats scapegoat Biden for their own misjudgments
Opinion, Сolumns
RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jul 21, 2022
Democratic discontent with President Joe Biden is boiling over into the press. His polling is abysmal, his age is showing and the Democrats are facing...
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Dems see sliver of midterm hope
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 20, 2022
A new national poll suggests the midterm elections could end up being a lot tighter than Republicans are hoping for, and not the blowout that Democrat...
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New DUI law right approach
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 20, 2022
The long, hard fight to diminish driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs has taken some wrong turns of its own over the years — especially wi...
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Reasons to cheer Joe Manchin
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jul 20, 2022
Three centrist cheers for Sen. Joe Manchin III. Manchin’s stance on three key issues may be unpopular with some of his Democratic colleagues but they ...
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Pro-choice activists hinder cause
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 19, 2022
In a distressing new trend that all serious abortion-rights activists should condemn immediately, a pro-choice group is offering online payments to re...
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Level field for local news
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 19, 2022
Fewer Americans read printed newspapers each year, but they still have an appetite for news. According to the News Media Alliance, paid newspaper circ...
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Background checks serving their purpose in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
Jul 19, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I’m pleased today to shoot holes in the baloney being peddled by Second Amendment worshippers who are fighting attempts to expand ba...
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The most self-destructive force in the world
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 19, 2022
Without a doubt, the climate-obsessed green movement is the most stupidly self-destructive force in the world today, leaving a trail of irrationality ...
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What’s missing from the 77-minute Uvalde video?
Opinion, Сolumns
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Jul 18, 2022
It’s not easy to make sense of the 77-minute video shot from an overhead camera near the classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were murdered i...
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Are word gaffes contagious?
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA ALLEN 
Jul 18, 2022
There’s a theory in psychology called empathic mimicry, which postulates that over the course of a relationship, a couple’s shared empathy may ultimat...
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GOP overreach can’t last
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Jul 15, 2022
Two thoughts: First, the Republican dog has finally caught the car it’s been chasing for years. A band of right-wing zealots in judge’s robes has give...
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Earth in a crowded universe
Opinion, Сolumns
TONY BARBOZA Los Angeles Times 
Jul 15, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and l...
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Abortion isn’t saving the Democrats
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jul 15, 2022
Democrats have been looking for a political lifeline and believe that the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade is it. The problem is that their radicali...
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Sounding the alarm over Joe Biden
Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jul 15, 2022
President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects have seemed doubtful for months now. Many voters think the nation’s oldest president ever — he turns 80 in ...
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Philly has failed its children
Сolumns
JENICE ARMSTRONG The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jul 15, 2022
I’m not one for waxing nostalgic about the good old days, but we have really lost something. On Monday, two boys, ages 10 and 14, turned themselves in...
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