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Conservatives take aim at tenure for university profs
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HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press 
Jan 09, 2023
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the University of Texas faculty approved a resolu...
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A conservative plan to strengthen families, post-Roe
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RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jun 21, 2022
Conservatives who want an economic policy that supports parents have long been a minority faction within the Republican Party. In 2017, when Republica...
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Joe Biden and the powerless presidency
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BYRON YORK 
Jun 16, 2022
There's no doubt inflation is the nation's most pressing concern. All the polls show it. All the data shows it. And everyone just personally knows it....
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What true conservatives should care most about
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TYLER COWEN / Tribune News Service 
Apr 11, 2022
If you are a true conservative — and I use the term not as Ted Cruz might, but in its literal sense, as in conserving what is of value in the modern w...
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Standing for values instead of personalities
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 18, 2022
William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What’s in a name? That which we call ...
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Put Putin through hell
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Mar 03, 2022
Russia is now under an elevated state of nuclear readiness in response to unexpectedly strong Ukrainian resistance and an overwhelming global outcry a...
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The tragedy of book bans
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Feb 01, 2022
The noble moral crusaders of Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board have voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic n...
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A narrow escape
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 29, 2022
Conservatives celebrated the defeat of the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills on Capitol Hill. They should have, since these bills were a brazen attempt...
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Congress should reclaim power
Apr 03, 2021
The Constitution empowers Congress to declare war largely because the Founders had substantial hard experience with vesting too much power in an indiv...
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Progressive Perspective: America is suffering from PTSD
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CHRIS STANLEY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Jan 21, 2021
Whatever one thinks of the national news media, it seems clear that their insistence on reporting every detail of what President Trump has said or don...
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Recusal woud be up to Barrett herself
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ANN McFEATTERS, Tribune News Service 
Oct 19, 2020
If the 2020 presidential election goes to the Supreme Court, as happened just 20 years ago, whether Amy Coney Barrett helps Donald Trump get a second ...
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Challenge our assumptions about racism
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jun 16, 2020
On a recent episode of “The Glenn Show,” a podcast hosted by Brown University professor Glenn Loury, academic and linguist John McWhorter asked the na...
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Progressive Perspective: No one needs a billion dollars
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CHRIS STANLEY Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jan 07, 2020
Imagine that a distant relative died and left you $1 million. What would you do with it? Most of us would begin by paying off our bills, but then what...
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