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Should the state budget be finalized today or tonight or tomorrow or whenever — and regardless of how many extra billions it spends, including corpora...

ALBANY (TNS) — Warning! Residents of a certain region near and dear to our hearts might find that an upcoming quote triggers anger or emotional distre...

Elon Musk just bought a $3 billion stake in Twitter Inc., because when you’re the world’s richest human you can toss billions around like poker chips....

The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden. Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in...

Thirty-two years ago on April 5, Concerned Citizens of Allegany County (CCAC) and the Allegany County Nonviolent Action Group (ACNAG) turned back a fi...

FORT WORTH, Texas — In 2020, I wrote about how my family, which at the time included three preschool-aged children, opted to skip the Super Bowl to av...

WASHINGTON — Last week, President Joe Biden sent Congress his proposed defense budget for the next fiscal year: an $813 billion wish list, almost $60 ...

Biden’s “billionaire minimum income tax” is really a wealth tax — and it’s a bad idea for tax policy in general. On Monday, Biden rolled out a propose...

In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see. Then h...

Clarence Thomas is, by far, our most abused Supreme Court justice. His confirmation hearings in 1991 were, as he memorably put it, a high-tech lynchin...

I was astonished to read in Kellen M. Quigley’s “Seneca Mothers Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine” (Olean Times Herald, March 9, 2022) that “prior to t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When is Andrew Cuomo going to get the message? Nobody wants him around anymore. The world has moved on. But the former governor is no...

The war in Ukraine, which just entered its second month, shows no sign of ending soon. Russia’s huge but incompetent army has been stymied in its atte...

I am such a willing participant to the power of suggestion. I hope that doesn’t make me gullible to manipulation or overly impressionable, but it does...

If Winston Churchill were here — and some of us saw him, or his latest incarnation, this month, addressing the U.S. Congress on the plight of his bele...

The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost,” wrote the great libertarian economist Walter E. Willi...

WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the world’s autocrats some useful lessons: Invasions may be harder than they look. It’s unwise to go t...