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Rogan shouldn’t be silenced
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SAL RODRIGUEZ Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
Am I really about to defend someone with a $100 million deal? Yep. In case you don’t know, Joe Rogan is one of the most popular podcast hosts in the w...
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Putin has a way out
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Putin, not NATO, is to blame
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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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The lessons of telehealth
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Feb 05, 2022
In the teeth of a terrible pandemic, millions of Americans, both patients and healthcare providers, for the first time plunged into telemedicine. Init...
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‘Rooting out’ hypocrisy in Va.
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GENE LYONS 
Feb 04, 2022
I’m so old I can remember when people calling themselves “conservative” thought “cancel culture” was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More re...
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Obamacare has delivered
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 04, 2022
The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill it, has quietly become an integral and accepted p...
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Our kids may not be all right
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Feb 02, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — A few days ago, we witnessed the latest episode of a long-running series we could call “Parents Behaving Badly.” After a state Supreme ...
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Why Biden can’t embrace COVID normality
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RICH LOWRY 
Feb 02, 2022
Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic. This is not entirely his fault, obviously. ...
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Coercing the unvaccinated threatens everyone’s rights
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KATHERINE DRABIAK / Tribune News Service 
Feb 01, 2022
A recent Rasmussen Reports poll revealed a significant percentage of the public agrees with punitive actions for people who decline COVID-19 vaccines,...
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The tragedy of book bans
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 01, 2022
The noble moral crusaders of Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board have voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic n...
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Presidents have long wanted a diverse Supreme Court
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STEPHEN L. CARTER Tribune News Service 
Jan 31, 2022
In the wake of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, an odd controversy has swirled around President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint a Black wom...
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High court status quo
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Jan 31, 2022
Justice Stephen G. Breyer has made many rulings during a long and distinguished career, but his most consequential may turn out to be his decision to ...
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A narrow escape
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
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The left’s coming defeat in the mask wars
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 29, 2022
The people in contemporary America who most pride themselves on their alleged commitment to science and public health are also the most superstitious ...
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Breyer retires on his terms
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Jan 29, 2022
Panicked progressives weren’t shy about telling Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to stop judging and start golfing or gardening. “Justice Breyer s...
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At one-year mark, Biden in good company
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GENE LYONS 
Jan 28, 2022
I’ve been bemused by what I’ve called the Cult of the Presidency since long before it became my job to write about it. To an awful lot of people, the ...
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