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Make it a working vacation
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2023
Pennsylvania lawmakers aren’t going to be able to go to work for a while. Yes, it sounds like the start to a particularly frustrating joke. But it’s t...
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GOP, chart a path forward
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 15, 2023
Kevin McCarthy, recently deposed as House speaker, has urged Donald Trump to move away from a message of “revenge.” McCarthy was referencing a speech ...
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Believe Trump when he vows revenge on news media
Opinion, Сolumns
ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Dec 14, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Was it just a little joke when Orange Jesus declared to Sean Hannity that, in the event of his political resurrection, he would be...
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Excuses, deflection in two cases
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 14, 2023
Here’s something both Hunter Biden and Donald Trump should remember: When powerful people face consequences for their actions, they aren’t being treat...
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Take away distractions in class
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 13, 2023
The latest report on how poorly U.S. students are performing in math also includes an easy way to potentially improve classroom performance. The Natio...
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O Christmas tree
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KATE DAY SAGER Special to The Era 
Dec 13, 2023
There I was, standing in my daughter’s living room holding on to the top of her live Christmas tree praying that it would stand up straight once she g...
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Say no to ‘Kooth’ in Pa. schools
Opinion, Сolumns
LOU BARLETTA 
Dec 12, 2023
Strangers talking to schoolchildren on the Internet — what could possibly go wrong? If that’s not bad enough, how about parents having no idea that it...
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Pa. should reform its judicial selection system
Opinion, Сolumns
CHRISTOPHER BROOKS 
Dec 12, 2023
Complaints about how Pennsylvania selects its appellate judges are nothing new. The January 1964 Citizens Conference reasoned that “the objective of a...
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Where’s the big immigration debate?
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 12, 2023
Do you remember the big national debate on whether the United States would adopt a policy to make the foreign share of the population the highest it’s...
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Editorial: Campus lesson on hate
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 11, 2023
Rep. Elise Stefanik set a clever trap at a House hearing on antisemitism on campus, snaring the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania , Harvard...
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The Hanukkah celebrates freedom
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 10, 2023
Observant Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukkah, a festival of lights. It was instituted to celebrate the liberation of Israel from dominatio...
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Breaking the seal of expulsion
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 10, 2023
George Santos, assuming that’s his real name, is a classic type, and in another era he’d be selling miracle elixirs out of a horse-drawn wagon or perh...
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What’s it like to be an average American?
Opinion, Сolumns
SHELDON H. JACOBSON Chicago Tribune 
Dec 10, 2023
CHICAGO (TNS) — One of the best ways to get a picture of a nation is through its numbers and, perhaps more importantly, its averages. But Americans li...
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