Commentary

Permanently defund terrorist-infested UNRWA
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 06, 2024
U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize groups that employ terrorists. Yet the Biden administration hasn’t been able to clear that low bar. Late last mon...
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Will Biden’s ‘Goldilocks’ airstrikes work?
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Feb 06, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran-backed militias were the largest President Jordan Biden has ordered since he took office, a...
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Teach financial literacy in NY’s high schools
Commentary, New York
BETTY A. ROSA and THOMAS P. DiNAPOLI 
Feb 05, 2024
ALBANY — Financial literacy should be taught in all New York schools. When students take a financial literacy course, they learn personal finance, bud...
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Kids shouldn’t be on social media at all
Commentary, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 05, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry. His apology at a Senate hearing to the families of victims of online child sex abuse was dramatic, and the human thing ...
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Judge shines light on DEI hypocrisy
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 04, 2024
Virtually every university, government agency and major corporation has embraced some type of diversity, equity and inclusion policies — widely known ...
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Too many security cameras, not enough safety
Commentary, Nation World
STEPHEN L. CARTER Bloomberg Opinion 
Feb 04, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Civil libertarians are celebrating the recent announcement by Amazon that law enforcement agencies will no longer be able to obtain R...
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Border fiasco of Biden’s making
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 02, 2024
Faced with an obvious political crisis — a recent CBS News poll found that 70% of respondents disapproved of President Joe Biden’s border policies — t...
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NY lawmakers should adopt STR tax bill
Commentary, New York
Feb 02, 2024
Buried in the depths of the executive budget unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul last week there’s a proposal designed to close some short-term vacation ren...
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Throw this watchdog a bigger bone
Commentary, New York
Feb 01, 2024
The Commission on Judicial Conduct deserves more funding than Gov. Hochul proposed for it. The work of the Commission on Judicial Conduct is vital to ...
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Biden finally admits to crisis at border
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Feb 01, 2024
What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would ca...
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Appeals to common sense don’t convince anyone
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
F.D. FLAM 
Jan 31, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — If you hear a politician or salesperson or, for that matter, opinion columnist invoke common sense, beware. When people say a particu...
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‘Masters of the Air’ does a public service
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 31, 2024
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have once again done a public service. Like “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” before it, the new series “Masters of ...
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A window to the NYS budget process
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Jan 30, 2024
Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024-25...
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