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Corman touts Trumpian bona fides, conservative record
News, PA State News
JULIAN ROUTH Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Mar 01, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Longtime GOP consultant Kellyanne Conway, a close confidante to Donald Trump who served in his White House, sought repeatedly to re...
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Thompson, Pa. senators condemn invasion of Ukraine
News, PA State News
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Thursday that Russia’s president is responsible for an “unwarranted and unprompted unilateral attack” upon Ukraine, whic...
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The (ongoing) border crisis
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Feb 24, 2022
These days, the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United State...
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Putin, not NATO, is to blame
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 05, 2022
Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...
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Biden not stepping up
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jan 21, 2022
The Hydra is an ancient Greek mythical beast, mentioned in the tales of Hercules, that was said to have the body of a dragon with many heads, two arms...
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Can NATO stop Putin’s dreams without war?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 12, 2022
This week, Western nations have been trying to rebuff Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine for the second time in eight years. The talks between the Uni...
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Preserve ‘Remain in Mexico’
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 05, 2022
Less than a year after canceling former President Donald Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy toward migrants attempting to enter the U.S., the Biden adm...
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Pushing back against China’s control of athletes
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 11, 2021
In 1936, human rights advocates pushed for a boycott of the “Nazi Olympics,” two years after Adolf Hitler seized power and began persecuting Jews. Som...
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The wrong way to show climate leadership
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Oct 22, 2021
President Joe Biden is sending a team of show horses to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next month to show the world that the U.S. is a le...
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Why Democrats can’t pay for their ambitions
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 17, 2021
Benjamin Franklin was right about death and taxes, but new taxes only become inevitable when a Democrat is elected president, and here we are. The Hou...
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My friends in Afghanistan
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHY KELLY Tribune News Service 
Sep 16, 2021
When I visited Kabul as a peace activist in 2014, at the height of the U.S. troop surge, I spoke with “Esmatullah,” a pseudonym for a high school stud...
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Learning from two decades
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 12, 2021
Twenty years later, it is difficult to overstate the impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks claimed the lives of 2,751 people ...
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20 years later, critical lessons from 9/11
Opinion, Сolumns
LEE EDWARDS, Tribune News Service 
Sep 11, 2021
It is understandable, given the chaos surrounding the U.S. exit from Afghanistan — especially the murder of the 13 U.S. troops — that our attention ha...
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