Opinion

Social Security, Medicare clocks tick
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 30, 2025
As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
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No one can grasp trillions: Making sense of federal spending
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By IVO WELCH Los Angeles Times 
Jun 30, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...
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Draining the swamp, Pa.-style
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ATHAN KOUTSIOUROUMBAS RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 30, 2025
It’s rare these days to find a proposal out of Washington that checks every box: common sense, bipartisan and pro-worker. That is exactly what Pennsyl...
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Political violence must be stopped
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
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Calif. fueled immigration advocacy
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
Los Angeles has dominated the news cycle as residents protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, but the...
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We need more teachers in Pa.
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By RYAN UNGER RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 27, 2025
I have Thanksgiving dinner every year with only teachers. My mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, aunt, cousin and my grandmother, along with all m...
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Where is Shapiro’s leadership on state budget?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By STEPHEN BLOOM and MEGHAN MARTIN RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 27, 2025
Gov. Josh Shapiro once said, “Leaders have a responsibility to speak truth.” Yet, truth be told, the governor’s lack of leadership on this year’s stat...
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Tough love’s dividends in Europe
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 26, 2025
Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members a...
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U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Jun 26, 2025
Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...
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Tehran has only bad options
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CHUCK FREILICH and COLIN P. CLARKE Los Angeles Times 
Jun 25, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s primary nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, Tehran faces nothing but bad options. Mi...
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Pa. can lead on term limits
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ANDY DINNIMAN and JOHN EICHELBERGER 
Jun 25, 2025
Washington has failed the American people. Career politicians in Congress continue to entrench themselves in power, prioritize partisan gamesmanship o...
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Texas bets big on nuclear
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 25, 2025
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he “looks forward” to signing into law a $350 million subsidy for the nuclear energy industry after the state legislature ...
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Saturday’s strike on Iran was perfectly timed
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By CHARLES HAMILTON RealClearDefense 
Jun 24, 2025
For more than two decades, the United States has employed every tool short of direct military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. S...
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Other Voices: Disappointing hyperbole
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 23, 2025
Although not one to publicly voice my opinions out of a sense decorum, I am nonetheless compelled to respond to some comments reportedly made at the r...
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Finally, U.S. chooses action over appeasement of Iran
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
Jun 23, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — One of my early reporting assignments at The Detroit News was to wait for a couple of frigid January days in 1981 outside the Redford ...
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