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The John Fetterman dilemma
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BYRON YORK 
Feb 23, 2023
John Fetterman was sworn in as senator from Pennsylvania on Jan. 3. On Feb. 8, after 36 days in office, Fetterman was admitted to George Washington Un...
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We should learn from Ohio’s train disaster
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FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Feb 21, 2023
If things had gone a bit differently, the chemicals on the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, could have exploded, killing people on the spo...
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EV ads in Super Bowl — an inconvenient history
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LARRY BEHRENS 
Feb 21, 2023
With an audience north of 100 million viewers, the Super Bowl is the most watched television event in the United States every year. As the game within...
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Hubris is largely self-driven
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Feb 20, 2023
It long has been an article of faith among high-tech advocates, especially those in the auto industry, that self-driving vehicles soon will be the sta...
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Demagoguery and Social Security
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BILL KING 
Feb 17, 2023
President Biden’s State of the Union speech produced yet another round of the Social Security demagogy that seems to have become a permanent fixture o...
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EV adoption faces great middle-class challenge
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CHARLES J. MURRAY Chicago Tribune 
Feb 16, 2023
CHICAGO (TNS) — With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear. It’s hard to turn on a radio or television and not...
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Another sign of inequality: minutes spent waiting
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FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Feb 16, 2023
We’ve waited far too long for a scientific study of waiting. From queues to telephone holds to waiting rooms, delays are all around us and they’re mis...
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Remembering the great Frederick Douglass
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Feb 15, 2023
Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. All Americans should...
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George Santos and justice
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BYRON YORK 
Feb 15, 2023
Some Republicans have entreated House GOP leaders: Can’t we get rid of this guy? Can’t we just kick him out? The guy, of course, is Rep. George Santos...
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Biden vs. the UFOs
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RICH LOWRY 
Feb 14, 2023
It’s best never to take White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s word for anything, but we can presumably believe her when she says that the f...
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Surprise! IRS going after tipped workers
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 14, 2023
It was barely six months ago that congressional Democrats voted to boost IRS funding by $80 billion over the next decade under the guise of beefing up...
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What Lincoln would tell US students about learning
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JOHN CRIBB 
Feb 13, 2023
Dear Young People, Presidents Day is coming around again, so it’s a good time to take up my pen and scratch out a letter to you. It’s been a long time...
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