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WASHINGTON — The Senate debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, as predictable as it is unedifying, exemplifies two of the most disturbing aspects of po...

WASHINGTON — Tom Donohue, the longtime president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sounded ebullient as he gave his annual report on the health of Amer...

WASHINGTON — It’s important to get history right — and economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has got it maddeningly wrong. Krugman recen...

WASHINGTON — Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keys...

WASHINGTON — As the 114th Congress begins in earnest, there are a number of things — such as tax and immigration reform and trade agreements — that po...

WASHINGTON — If we can be serious for a moment: The president made an error in judgment by not sending someone with a higher profile than our ambassad...

Reactions have been mixed ... though mostly positive. And even those who have doubts are focused on two specific concerns. That’s the response to the ...

WASHINGTON — I like a feeding frenzy as much as the next shark. But I can’t get a taste for Rep. Steve Scalise’s blood. The Louisiana Republican, newl...

Bet on it! Governor-elect Tom Wolf is going to have a rough first year in office. He faces enormous fiscal and policy challenges, is only the second g...

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ‘tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. WASHI...

HarperCollins says it’s sorry. It says it regrets not including Israel on a map of the Middle East in an atlas it published and distributed in the Mid...

A former co-worker at The Era used to say, “Life stinks and then you die.” We Yankees finally get a northern team in the college football championship...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Talk about doing it by the book. St. Bonaventure basketball coach Mark Schmidt knew what was coming. Nine games into the seaso...

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the new Senate majority leader, has an exceedingly high opinion of his own power. In a speech on the Senate floor Wednes...

WASHINGTON — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell deserved to be indicted for taking thousands of dollars in gifts from a businessman seeking state help...

Another year has gone by, and I must say, at breakneck speed. The older I get the faster the years go by. Has anyone else out there noticed that? The ...

Catching up on some recent correspondence: A long-time reader, who did not include his name, sent a copy of a column on the Olean Armory written by le...

I looked in panic at the calendar, it was Dec. 20, Saturday, and my wife and I were pouring intently over our shopping lists with scowls of concentrat...

WASHINGTON — We know, because they often say so, that those who think catastrophic global warming is probable and perhaps imminent are exemplary empir...

WASHINGTON — John Boehner won re-election as speaker of the House on Tuesday with the help of an unlikely ally: Mario Cuomo, the former Democratic gov...