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Readers’ Turn to Right: Voting for principles, not for party
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
THOMAS P. ENRIGHT Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 07, 2024
I am a lifelong registered Democrat. I don’t recall choosing that party: my parents most likely “gave” it to me. Actually, because I was born white, C...
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Bush’s decision not to endorse is principled
Commentary, Nation World
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
Oct 04, 2024
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — During every election cycle, cross-party endorsements snag a few headlines. There is something oddly satisfying about the on...
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The Trump veep guessing game is silly
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Jun 17, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For all the conjecture and wishcasting about who or what could knock President Joe Biden or Donald Trump out of the 2024 presidenti...
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Ron DeSantis and the new Republican Party
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 18, 2022
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had another moment that lit up the right, this time pushing back against Disney’s critique of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” ...
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Recalling that fateful day
Local Columnists, Nation World
Sep 11, 2021
Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most shocking days in U.S. history, the hijacking of four jetliners by 19 terrorists with the intent of...
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The way we were in 2001
Local Columnists, Nation World
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Sep 07, 2021
On that day 20 years ago this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon bureaucracy, saying that it was a threat to national...
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The United States of incompetence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Aug 23, 2021
By acting nobly on slavery, Abraham Lincoln once said, America could be “the last best hope of Earth.” But right now we look more like the United Stat...
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Exit strategy from Afghanistan
Apr 15, 2021
President Joe Biden’s announcement Wednesday that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the wit...
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Salamanca’s Agnelli spent 25 years in Secret Service
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CHUCK POLLOCK - Olean Times Herald 
Nov 14, 2020
The call came from Kerry Snow, the former Big 30 All-Star who was a standout quarterback at Otto-Eldred and went on to play at Bucknell in the mid-197...
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Recusal woud be up to Barrett herself
Local Columnists, Nation World
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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Trump GOP not as different as you think
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 29, 2020
Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, but it’s still discernibly the Republican Party. The Republican National Convention was obviously very Tr...
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That’s the power of love
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Aug 04, 2020
“John Lewis believed in the Lord, he believed in humanity and he believed in America. He’s been called an American saint, a believer willing to give u...
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