Commentary

Whither all the legal weed in NY?
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Sep 20, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — They couldn’t have screwed this up any worse if they tried. It should have been simple for New York to set up its legal weed market: ...
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Feds miscalculate $66 billion in costs
Commentary, Nation World
ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI RealClear Politics 
Sep 20, 2023
The federal government is using a flawed accounting method, which is likely underestimating the costs of a loan program by $66 billion, according to a...
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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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Street Masters Car Club expresses thanks
Daily Headlines, Leters to the Editor
Sep 18, 2023
As we close the books on the Labor Day Weekend Backyard Cookout & Car Show event, Street Masters Car Club would like to thank all who contributed to t...
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Joe Biden was on board
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 18, 2023
The memo went out from the White House that there’s no evidence President Joe Biden did anything wrong regarding his son’s business dealings and, sure...
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Big Red: How the U.S. risks falling off fiscal cliff
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
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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Trust in Google takes another hit
Commentary, Nation World
Sep 17, 2023
Users' trust in Google took yet another hit Thursday. The tech titan agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state ofCaliforniaresolving allegatio...
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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
Commentary, Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
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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Have Boomer skills outlived their usefulness?
Commentary, Daily Headlines, Nation World
JAMES LILEKS Star Tribune 
Sep 13, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — Sometimes you see a link to an article headlined “50 things Boomers Did That Are Useless Now,” and you cannot resist. You know you...
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