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The smear campaign against Joe Manchin
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 09, 2021
Joe Manchin is being pilloried for the offense of being consistent on the filibuster. Back in 2017, when Senate Democrats were desperate to stop Donal...
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Voting bill isn’t Jim Crow 2.0
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 08, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas — Count me among the cohort of conservative writers who tired quickly of the claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate. It wasn...
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In Texas, Democrats thwart will of majority
Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
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The Texas voting lie
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 03, 2021
The Democratic opposition to legislative minorities using whatever leverage they have to block legislation is highly situational. In Washington, D.C.,...
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Vaccine mandate is a bad idea
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2021
Herd immunity from the COVID-19 virus is the place we want to be. The quickest and most efficient way of getting there is widespread vaccination. Acro...
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Perfected politics of ‘No!’
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 29, 2021
Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...
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The ‘Illusionist Caucus’
Opinion, Сolumns
STEVEN V. ROBERTS 
May 28, 2021
The political world has been focusing on the serious splits in Republican ranks — and rightly so. Purging party members who won’t worship before the a...
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The Republican Party’s new McCarthyism
Сolumns
ROBERT A. GEORGE Bloomberg Opinion/ TNS 
May 27, 2021
Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...
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McCarthy, McConnell want you to forget about Jan. 6
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 25, 2021
It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...
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The GOP future is bright
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 24, 2021
Republicans have had a brutal news cycle over the past month, between the ouster of Liz Cheney from leadership and the intraparty jousting over a Jan....
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Trump, allies not done
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 22, 2021
Donald Trump’s campaign to steal the 2020 election after clearly losing at the ballot box failed for a couple of reasons. His baseless claims of fraud...
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Pa. shows low turnout
Opinion, Сolumns
PAUL MUSCHICK The Morning Call 
May 21, 2021
It’s not shocking that voters appeared to approve amending the state Constitution on Tuesday in an attempt to limit the governor’s powers during futur...
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It’s the math, stupid
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
May 14, 2021
There’s a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it ...
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Facebook’s speech policies are absurd
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 09, 2021
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...
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Trump doesn’t need Facebook
Opinion, Сolumns
May 08, 2021
Perhaps blind to the irony, former President Donald Trump took to the newly created news feed on his website Wednesday to blast Facebook, Twitter and ...
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Purging the GOP past
Opinion, Сolumns
STEVEN ROBERTS 
May 07, 2021
In the nine elections between 1980 and 2012, candidates with one of three names — Bush, Cheney and Romney — appeared on the GOP’s national ticket nine...
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An outrage from FBI on GOP baseball shootings
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Apr 29, 2021
On June 14, 2017, a team of Republican lawmakers went to an athletic field in Alexandria, Virginia, to practice for the annual Congressional Baseball ...
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Biden’s radical gambit
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 28, 2021
There’s believing your own press releases. And then, there’s believing your own delusions of grandeur. Joe Biden should look at the mirror every day a...
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