Opinion

A Dem lovefest for an ousted Joe Biden
Commentary, Nation World
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 21, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — It must have been a rough plane ride for President Joe Biden and his family, who left the White House for Chicago so he could address ...
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Will voters care about Harris’ border flip-flop?
Commentary, Nation World
LYNN SCHMIDT St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
Aug 21, 2024
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Anyone who has gone fishing, caught one, and had it wiggle out of their hands, knows that while a fish is flopping around searc...
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As inflation cools, cut interest rates now
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 20, 2024
Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...
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COVID’s summer wave
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 19, 2024
When we talk about catching waves over the summer, this is not the kind of wave we mean. Because as summer winds down, it’s not ocean waves many of us...
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Harris giddy for price controls
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 19, 2024
Democrats open their national convention Monday in Chicago, the largest city in Illinois, a state that perfectly encapsulates the dangers of their pro...
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Independents will decide the election
Commentary, Nation World
TYLER FISHER and CARLO MACOMBER The Fulcrum/TNS 
Aug 19, 2024
Whichever party wins independent voters will win the presidency and other key races this fall. A poll we at Unite America commissioned earlier this ye...
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A First Amendment lesson
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 16, 2024
While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...
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Oldest Olympians might hold key to slowing aging
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F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 16, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...
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The Brotherhood of ’57
Commentary, Local Columnists
RICHARD J. MARCOTT Special to Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2024
It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...
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Will Trump end elections? Anatomy of a failed hoax
Commentary, Nation World
FRANK MIELE RealClearPolitics 
Aug 15, 2024
Apparently Saul Alinsky has been resurrected and is working as the chief propaganda coordinator for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Alinsky w...
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The plan to cut federal red ink
Commentary, Nation World
Aug 15, 2024
Kamala Harris is hiding from tough questions, and Donald Trump appears wholly uninterested in the topic. As both major presidential candidates ignore ...
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Trump’s state of mind should be under debate
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JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Aug 15, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s way past time to talk seriously about Trump Derangement Syndrome — his, not his critics’. For years it’s been clear to mental ...
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Maybe legalizing weed wasn’t such a great idea
Commentary, Nation World
TYLER COWEN Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 14, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Depending on where you live and how you want to use it, it is pretty easy to get marijuana in the U.S. At first medical marijuana, wh...
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How would Harris pay for policies that voters want?
Commentary, Nation World
LZ GRANDERSON Los Angeles Times 
Aug 13, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign plans to shift its economic message this week from breadth to depth, articulating some of t...
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