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Abortion rises as major election issue
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JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
After President Joe Biden’s tragic spectacle of administrative incompetence, pundits said Afghanistan was going to be the chief issue in the midterm e...
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The world needs more COVID vaccines
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
President Joe Biden has a huge opportunity in the next few months to regain his footing as a foreign policy president after the fall of Kabul — a chan...
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The whole truth on 9/11
Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 06, 2021
Eight days before the 20th anniversary of the darkest day in New York City history, President Biden honored a promise to the families of Sept. 11’s vi...
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The Afghanistan war wasn’t a cynical misadventure
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HAL BRANDS Tribune News Service 
Sep 03, 2021
Lost wars are supposed to provoke soul-searching. In America, they usually bring historical revisionism instead. When once-good wars go bad, Americans...
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The not-so-mysterious allure of domestic animals
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GENE LYONS 
Sep 03, 2021
Ever since journalists started working from home in large numbers, they’ve begun adopting pets and, inevitably, writing about them. No problem there. ...
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Are Americans safer today?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 03, 2021
Is America safer after its 20-year war on terrorism in Afghanistan has resulted in the Taliban’s victory? The answer, like the war itself, is muddled....
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The ugly ending we all saw coming
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BYRON YORK 
Sep 02, 2021
At 9:05 Monday night, State Department spokesman Ned Price issued a plaintive message to the new rulers of Afghanistan. “The Taliban needs to meet its...
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Sorry, this was not a success
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RICH LOWRY 
Sep 01, 2021
Talk about a catastrophic success. The Biden administration wants credit for the Afghanistan evacuation as measured by the sheer number of people it f...
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Another needless COVID victim
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JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Aug 31, 2021
You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air...
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Parents try home-schooling in face of endless COVID
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 31, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) —Driving home Wednesday after our first day of co-op schooling, I felt overwhelmingly grateful. Many of my friends have spent ...
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Honor Trump, get vaccinated
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 27, 2021
Former President Donald Trump experienced something new during his rally in Mobile, Alabama, Saturday night: He was briefly booed. That never happens ...
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Progressive Perspective: Remember Afghanistan and Iraq
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CHRISTOPHER D. STANLEY, Special to Olean Times Herald 
Aug 26, 2021
As we witness the chaotic aftermath of the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, we would do well to recall how we got here and to consider what lessons we ...
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Stranded in the White House
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BYRON YORK 
Aug 26, 2021
The Biden administration says it does not know how many U.S. citizens are in Afghanistan hoping to leave in the face of the American withdrawal and Ta...
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Cuomo’s ship finally sinks — without its Captain?
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CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany 
Aug 25, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — We shouldn’t have expected that Andrew Cuomo would leave town with grace and honor. He didn’t govern that way, so he wasn’t likely to e...
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The media’s finest hour
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RICH LOWRY 
Aug 25, 2021
Poor Ron Klain. It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to re-tweet favorable news coverage and all he ...
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Raise insurance rates on unvaccinated
Local Columnists, Nation World
Aug 25, 2021
Health insurance companies can legally charge smokers up to 50% more in premiums than non-smokers, based on the simple fact that smokers have made a d...
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