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Nationalism’s finest hour
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 02, 2022
If anyone had any doubt that Ukraine has its own national identity, the early days of the Russian invasion should have eliminated it. There’s been the...
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PSP not above scrutiny
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
The Pennsylvania State Police don’t believe they should be subject to anyone else’s interpretation of how they do their job. State Police Commissioner...
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Why Belarus helps Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 02, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — On Monday, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks on Ukraine’s border with Belarus — one sign of how Vladimir Putin has ...
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Other Voices: The real insurrection
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
Who are the real insurrectionists? The left’s policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy and the border have all lost majority support. Now they ...
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Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2022
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...
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Too late with free COVID tests
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 01, 2022
On Jan. 18, the day the federal government’s website allowing Americans to order free at-home COVID tests opened (one day before its official launch, ...
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We can win this Cold War, too
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Feb 28, 2022
Some years ago, when I was editor of a now-defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas, my wife and I bought a house with a deteriorated, spider-filled, filth...
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West can’t break in solidarity
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine is the consequence of the former KGB head’s messianic vision and numerous Weste...
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Honest tax plan for Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2022
State Rep. Frank Ryan nicely summarized the fundamental problem Thursday as he introduced his latest plan to eliminate widely hated school property ta...
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A civilizational challenge
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 26, 2022
A clash of civilizations is upon us. Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine doesn’t just herald a new era in European security, it underlines a growing ...
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Invest in the State System
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2022
When businesses hands out pink slips, they sometimes say they are “right-sizing” their enterprise, if only because it sounds a lot less harsh and more...
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Minimum wage hike overdue
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 26, 2022
Pennsylvania’s 253 legislators gave themselves a 5.4% pay increase this year through an automatic escalator tied to the inflation rate rather than thr...
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Even Democrats can’t decide who they are
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Feb 26, 2022
To hear some people tell it, the Democratic Party is overrun with far-left culture warriors preaching “identity politics” and what Kevin Drum calls “s...
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How Reagan would have handled Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
TYLER COWEN Tribune News Service 
Feb 25, 2022
The Ukraine crisis makes me miss Ronald Reagan. More to the point, it makes me better appreciate his combination of moral clarity and realism: He unde...
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Putin’s power in age of lies
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2022
It shouldn’t be a surprise to students of history the way authoritarians use lies and manipulation to gather power and justify terrible deeds that des...
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Marijuana the next Big Pharma?
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2022
The conversation surrounding marijuana has shifted over the years. It went from being demonized for decades to being suggested as helpful in relieving...
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