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For some, pot is a joke, for others it’s prison
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
May 09, 2016
(TNS) You may not like President Obama’s political philosophy or leadership style, but you have to admit that he is one cool president. If you’re unco...
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Home Again: A mom is always a mom
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DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
May 08, 2016
When I first lost my daughter Michele in 1982, when she was 11, I discovered it could be a struggle when someone asked if I had children. If I said, “...
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Truthiness, Trumpiness and you
Commentary, Nation World
DICK MEYER, Scripps Washington Bureau 
May 06, 2016
(TNS) A decade ago, the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster performed a great public service by bestowing its word of the year award to “truthiness.”...
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Confronting the opioid epidemic
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
May 06, 2016
Editor’s Note: The following submission was offered as a collaborative effort by students in the Policy and Organization class at Jamestown Community ...
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Clinton vs. Trump: Politics without principle
Commentary, Nation World
NAT HENTOFF and NICK HENTOFF 
May 06, 2016
What does it say about our political process, and the judgment of the American electorate, that the likely nominees of the two major political parties...
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In choosing female leaders, US trails many countries
Commentary, Nation World
MARKOS KOUNALAKIS The Sacramento Bee 
May 03, 2016
(TNS) Every election brings new questions about the qualities and character of national leadership, in the United States and abroad. In the 2008 presi...
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Why are we still confining animals in zoos?
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
May 03, 2016
(TNS) The tiger is an awesome beast. I don’t use “awesome” here in the modern, informal sense that we apply casually to anything that we think is extr...
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Diminishing faith in democracy
Commentary, Nation World
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Apr 29, 2016
(TNS) The greatest threat to American security is something most Americans never think of. President Barack Obama touched on it in his speech to the E...
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Graduates, beware bad advice ahead
Commentary, Nation World
DICK MEYER, Scripps Washington Bureau 
Apr 29, 2016
The rites of the graduation are commencing. In gyms, auditoriums and grassy quads, high school and college graduates will be treated, or subjected, to...
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Maybe it does matter for whom you vote
Commentary, Nation World
JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Apr 26, 2016
(TNS) The remarkable durability of non-establishment candidates — Sanders, Trump — in this year’s presidential race may reflect the widely held theory...
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Cruz-Kasich pact against Trump is fair fight
Commentary, Nation World
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN, Bloomberg View 
Apr 26, 2016
Here are three things to know about the non-aggression pact between Ted Cruz and John Kasich, who have now vowed to work together to defeat Donald Tru...
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