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Let’s go get some government contracts!
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Sep 19, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — It has recently come to my attention that much moolah can be made by helping New York governments do things that politicians don’t know...
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Hunter Biden exploited family name, broke the law
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times/TNS 
Sep 19, 2023
A little over two years ago, when Hunter Biden was promoting his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” on “CBS Sunday Morning,” he told an interviewer he was “1...
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Big Red: How the U.S. risks falling off fiscal cliff
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Sep 17, 2023
No one questions that Bidenomics is the greatest form of -nomics that the Biden family has ever been associated with — unless, of course, Hunter’s bra...
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GOP revives lies about Biden, Ukraine corruption
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep 17, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Ronald Reagan famously used the phrase, “ There you go again ,” to imply that his Democratic opponents were full of bull and hype...
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Behold the staggering idiocy of NY’s marijuana rollout
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Sep 15, 2023
ALBANY (TNS) — At this point, it’s almost cliche to note the stunning incompetence of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management. The agency is tasked ...
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The electric car sham
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RICH LOWRY 
Sep 15, 2023
Joe Biden has seen the future, and it is electric cars. Lots of electric cars. Electric cars — or else. Donald Trump has seen the future, and it is a ...
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For the planet or for your pocketbook?
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Sep 14, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I realized I had a problem with internet shopping the day my 13-year-old niece looked at the packing slip in a box that had just a...
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Climate change panic is not constructive
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BJORN LOMBORG 
Sep 14, 2023
As surely as temperatures rise during the summer, climate alarmism serves up more stories of life-threatening heat domes, apocalyptic fires and biblic...
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In migrant crisis, NY still can’t face reality
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BYRON YORK 
Sep 13, 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has taken a leading role among Democrats in conceding the damage done to local communities by the Biden administration’...
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Joe Biden’s Mariel boatlift
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RICH LOWRY 
Sep 12, 2023
“Worse than Jimmy Carter” is an epithet Republicans often throw at Democratic presidents. It’s a label, though, that Joe Biden clearly deserves on imm...
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Saluting our first responders on 9/11
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JOHN FRANCO New York Daily News 
Sep 11, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — For me, 9/11 is the true identity of our 2001 Mets team. When the attacks hit, every member of our organization stepped forward and k...
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Going green going to cost New Yorkers
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TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Sep 11, 2023
New York has some of the most ambitious green energy goals you’re going to see anywhere. The state wants to generate 70% of its electricity via renewa...
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Unemployment rate higher than it seems
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E.J. ANTONI 
Sep 11, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because the Biden administration is playi...
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Can Biden overcome the age issue?
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DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Sep 11, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Voters in both major parties think President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection. The poll numbers are piling up — and they’...
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There’s no escaping Putin’s murderous intentions
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep 10, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — I’m just back from a theater vacation in London and a week in Scotland, which were meant to help me recoup from a strenuous work ...
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Gen Z is dropping the college dream
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EMMA VARVALOUCAS Chicago Tribune 
Sep 08, 2023
CHICAGO (TNS) — For years, we have lamented the spike in college costs and accompanying student debt bloat while we teach high schoolers to covet admi...
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FEMA money is for disaster-stricken Americans
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SIMON HANKINSON 
Sep 08, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how t...
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