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RTW: The liberal media looks the other way
Commentary, Readers Turn To Write
NATALE NED MOLLICA Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 20, 2015
While listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio last month, I heard him talk about a video of a high-level Planned Parenthood official talking about sel...
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JCC to mark its 40th year in Cattaraugus County
Commentary, Local Columnists
JOHN SAYEGH, Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Aug 20, 2015
The Cattaraugus County Campus of Jamestown Community College will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016. Throughout these four decades, JCC has been ...
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Talk is cheap, renewable energy isn’t
Commentary, Nation World
Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg View 
Aug 20, 2015
(TNS) If promises matter, it’s been a very good stretch for renewable power. At the end of July, Hillary Clinton said that as president she would aim ...
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Just worry about the kids
Commentary, Nation World
COKIE ROBERTS and STEVEN V. ROBERTS 
Aug 20, 2015
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans — Cokie's hometown — breaking the levees and damaging or destroying almost all of the city's...
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The Gus Macker must — and does — go on
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 19, 2015
Some reflections after a busy weekend … My hat’s off to the Gus Macker organizers for the job they did this year in pulling the tournament off in what...
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Remembering civil rights champion Julian Bond
Commentary, Nation World
Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg View 
Aug 19, 2015
(TNS) One of my keenest memories of Julian Bond is his voice. It had a beautiful tone, smooth and musical and soft. In the 1970s, when Julian was in t...
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How dry, how long?
Commentary, Nation World
William Debuys 
Aug 19, 2015
(TNS) California in the Great Drought is a living diorama of how the future is going to look across much of the United States as climate change sets i...
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Fenced out — of Mexico
Commentary, Nation World
WAYNE A. CORNELIUS 
Aug 12, 2015
(TNS) In the first Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump swore he’d build a wall to keep out Mexican migrants and his GOP rivals lined up to as...
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Don’t pass the Buckley
Commentary, Nation World
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Aug 12, 2015
Sometimes we only pay attention when there's a storm. I thought this as I saw headline after headline commenting on a new film involving a famous tele...
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Will Joe Biden run?
Commentary, Nation World
COKIE ROBERTS and STEVEN V. ROBERTS 
Aug 12, 2015
Will Joe Biden run for president? An answer to that question should come by fall, and meanwhile, Team Biden will be weighing the arguments for and aga...
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A borderless Europe under siege
Commentary, Nation World
DALIBOR ROHAC 
Aug 10, 2015
(TNS) Imagine for a moment that, instead of the federally run Customs and Border Protection agency, Texas, Arizona and neighboring states were charged...
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Cecil and the culture wars
Commentary, Nation World
Charles Camosy 
Aug 10, 2015
(TNS) Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a strange convergence. The story of surreptitious Planned Parenthood videos, which appear to show doctors ha...
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Eckstrom: Not every hunter would kill Cecil
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Aug 01, 2015
If the Minnesota dentist, who has become Public Enemy No. 1 in animal-rights and anti-hunting circles, indeed killed Cecil the lion in circumstances t...
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