presidencies

Other Voices: Oath of honor
Opinion, Сolumns
May 06, 2025
Our elected state and federal officials take an oath of office, many with their hand on a Bible. Common in these oaths is a venerated commitment to pr...
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Trump’s most vital job is the nation’s morale
Opinion, Сolumns
DONNIE COLLINS The Times-Tribune, Scranton 
Apr 16, 2025
SCRANTON (TNS) — In November,Donald Trumpwon the presidency with 49.8 percent of the popular vote. That was up three percentage points from his 2020 l...
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Other Voices: Doing what must be done
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 14, 2025
People around here are complaining about President Donald Trump's methods. Former President Joe Biden and his far left pals hurt us by opening the bor...
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Shapiro: Schumer should have used ‘leverage’
Opinion, Сolumns
ANDREW SEIDMAN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 17, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov.Josh ShapirosaidDemocratsinWashingtonshould have been more strategic in trying to extract concessions from the Republican-led C...
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Democrats now the party of the bureaucracy
Opinion, Сolumns
NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
Mar 03, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — Democrats lost the fall election by allowing themselves to be tagged as the party of inflation and illegal immigration. They seem boun...
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Battered Democrats hope to regain their focus
Opinion, Сolumns
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Feb 20, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Like everyone else in Washington, Democratic Party leaders have been stunned by the speed and the breadth of President Donald Trump...
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Warren increasingly unhinged, irrelevant
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 11, 2025
BOSTON (TNS) — Elizabeth Warrenis losing it, reduced to becoming an irrelevant complainer who does nothing for herMassachusettsconstituents while rail...
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Push Trump nominees forward
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 04, 2025
Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS) The time it takes to confirm a presidential appointee has grown considerably over the past 50 years. Unfortunately,Sena...
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An eventful day in US history
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 21, 2025
Donald Trump promised “shock and awe” during the first days of his presidency. He didn’t disappoint the majority of Americans who understood that the ...
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The show hearings continue
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 20, 2025
TheSenatebegan the show hearings for Donald Trump’s presidentialCabinetnominees last week. ManyDemocratsdid not distinguish themselves. The most conte...
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Can Fetterman influence Trump?
Opinion, Сolumns
ADRIANA E. RAMIREZ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Jan 20, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — After his visit with just-about-to-be president Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago, many members of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's base...
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Still some hard feelings
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Jan 17, 2025
BOSTON (TNS) —For the second time this month, former first ladyMichelle Obamais snubbingDonald Trump, yet another sign that sore loserDemocratscan’t h...
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Republicans have chance to seize the moment
Opinion, Сolumns
MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer 
Jan 17, 2025
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation was quintessential Biden. He wove in folksy stories of America’s past. He...
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