Opinion

Letter to the Editor: The government is us
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 02, 2025
As Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts and parades, we do so at a moment of growing strain in the very government ...
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Can’t we all just be proud Americans?
Commentary, Opinion
By ROD BISHOP RealClearDefense 
Jul 02, 2025
As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...
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Commentary, Opinion
By FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
Jul 01, 2025
Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...
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Immigration’s big cost to states
Commentary, Opinion
Jul 01, 2025
State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...
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Commentary, Opinion
By DAVID E. FITZ 
Jul 01, 2025
My recent visit to the civic religious shrines and historical museums in Philadelphia highlights the threat executive power poses to democracy. In 177...
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Summer project No. 1: Reading list
Commentary, Opinion
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Jun 30, 2025
The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Once again this summer, I am happy to be joining my co...
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Commentary, Opinion
Jun 30, 2025
As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...
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Political violence must be stopped
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 27, 2025
In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...
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Mayor Mamdani in NYC? Elites shocked yet again
Commentary, Opinion
By TOM WROBLESKI Staten Island Advance 
Jun 27, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, is in prime position to be elected the next mayor of New York City. R...
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All states need workplace heat laws
Commentary, Opinion
By TERRI GERSTEIN New York Daily News 
Jun 26, 2025
NEW YORK (TNS) — Much of New York was under a state of emergency this past week because of a blistering heat wave. State and local authorities made cl...
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U.S. sovereignty over corporate profits every time
Commentary, Opinion
By NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Jun 26, 2025
Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...
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Medical Aid in Dying goes down a dangerous path
Commentary, Opinion
By SUSAN THOMAS syracuse.com 
Jun 25, 2025
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Earlier this month the state Senate passed the deceptively named Medical Aid in Dying Act, which had passed earlier in the Assembly. ...
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Asking for help can be hard
Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Jun 25, 2025
You don’t realize how much you depend on your back for daily tasks until you’re dealing with an injury or pain. I suppose it’s the same for arms, legs...
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Pataki at 80: A legacy of leadership, lasting impact
Commentary, Opinion
By DAVE CATALFAMO 
Jun 25, 2025
It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly two decades since Gov. George Pataki left office in 2006 — the last New York governor to do so not because he ha...
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