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(TNS) Those who believe that the arc of human history bends toward progress and enlightenment must be having a hard time finding a scrap of good news ...

I would like to thank the people of the village of Allegany for putting their trust in me for 16 years. I feel that with the help of several excellent...

Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” That quote, while warning against any attempt to make exact comparisons betw...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says that as a result of the Agricultural Land Assessment Cap, last year armers across the state paid $11 million less in agricul...

Editor's Note: The writer is addressing the question, “Does Obama’s pending deal with Iran really endanger the U.S. and Israel?” (TNS) Israel’s surviv...

Editor's Note: The writer is addressing the question, “Does Obama’s pending deal with Iran really endanger the U.S. and Israel?” (TNS) President Obama...

(TNS) On March 4, 11 members of the U.S. House and Senate sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling on him to send “lethal, defensive weapons sy...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The Chinese are coming! And they're bringing their golf clubs. Chinese investment in America reached $12 billion last year, accor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When law enforcement officers from around the U.S. visit the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles for training these days, they a...

A sampling of editorials from around New York state: The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and teachers. While Gov. Andrew Cuomo was i...

(TNS) We all know Washington is capable of making a mess of just about anything. Further compounding matters, the politicians who inhabit this town us...

(TNS) Opposition research is an accepted part of democratic battle. You learn as much as you can about your opponent — the inevitable embarrassments o...

I wonder what our founders would have thought of this: "Last fall, FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) mailed warning letters to ...

It was eerie outside Shannon Pepper’s charred apartment. I had been in there before. I remembered how it was decorated — a little dark for my taste. I...

(TNS) In his speech to Congress on March 4, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned historical and literary resources to support a hard lin...

(TNS) This year, America’s most powerful foreign-policy tool won’t be bombs, soldiers, or diplomats. It will be energy. America is in the midst of an ...

For the past two weekends, I've been in a seminary just outside the Center City district of Philadelphia. I'd joined volunteers wanting to be part of ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, who would dearly love to be president, recently berated his fellow Republicans for insufficient fortitude in opposing ...