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Tariffs a national security issue
Opinion, Сolumns
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Apr 08, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed ...
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Other Voices: Unfit for office
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 08, 2025
In 1961, six Bradford area boys were drafted. We went to Buffalo for physicals. If we passed, we would be sent to basic training. Our fear was to fail...
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Other Voices: Let DOGE do its work
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2025
Recently I read a guest commentary written by Judge John Cleland. The focus of his commentary revolved around the efforts of DOGE to reduce the huge b...
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$4.3B to cover Medicaid patients twice
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2025
States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, accor...
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Trump needs better game plan
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 07, 2025
For those of us who are calling balls and strikes on the Trump administration, the idea of creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to sl...
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I don’t want my son to fall in love with the Pirates
Opinion, Сolumns
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Apr 07, 2025
PITTSBURGH — My son and his buddies came home from baseball practice the other day wearing newPiratest-shirts. Apparently the localLittle Leagueorgani...
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Shapiro slides right with ‘Real Time’ appearance
Opinion, Сolumns
NICK KAYAL RealClearPennsylvania 
Apr 07, 2025
Believe it or not, the 2028 presidential election isn’t all that far off, especially in this modern era of political fundraising and positioning. On t...
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Trump’s agenda is threatened
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 04, 2025
Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal governme...
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Other Voices: Who does GT represent?
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 04, 2025
Thanks to Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson for his newsletters, showing he’s out of touch with constituents’ needs. In recent newsletters, Thompson said nothi...
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Meddling into high gas prices
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 03, 2025
Bad policies have consequences. The nation's Democrats who look to California for inspiration would do well to keep that simple truism in mind. Two ye...
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Troll Canada: Trump keeps hammering neighbor
Opinion, Сolumns
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Apr 03, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — PresidentDonald Trumplikes to troll Canada. He has been threatening our neighbor to the north with additional tariffs, and he think...
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Universities and DEI: An expensive lesson
Opinion, Сolumns
JONATHAN BUTCHER 
Apr 03, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The U.S. Department of Education is calling colleges to account for racist and antisemitic incidents on campus — and its move to wi...
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Congress, support efforts that combat obesity
Opinion, Сolumns
DR. STUART SHAPIRO The Center Square 
Apr 03, 2025
As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and in my decades of experience in healthcare that absolutely rings true. T...
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Other Voices: Wake up, America!
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 03, 2025
I miss the America I grew up in where people aren't bought and sold politically on a daily basis. As children, our parents stressed the importance of ...
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New book advances dream
Opinion, Сolumns
DEB WUETHRICH 
Apr 02, 2025
PORTVILLE, N.Y. — I was one of those strange kids in high school who could write well over the mandatory composition word count in English class. I di...
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Lawmakers make bank on stocks
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 02, 2025
The DOGE-damners on Capitol Hill are going to hate Elon Musk’s latest target: Congressional wallets. Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night...
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More than $1B for foreign shrimp
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 02, 2025
The U.S. contributed to over $1 billion spent promoting shrimp farming in foreign countries from 1998 to 2023, which members of Congress say may have ...
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