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No, democracy is not on the ballot
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 01, 2022
Democracy is under threat — the wrong candidates could win more votes than their opponents in hotly contested free and fair elections. That’s the worr...
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Fallout over the Ukraine letter
Nov 01, 2022
The Congressional Progressive Caucus last week issued, then quickly withdrew, a poorly timed letter to President Joe Biden urging stepped-up efforts t...
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Don’t fear Elon Musk
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 07, 2022
Elon Musk is about to pollute the country’s discourse, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric b...
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Hispanics weren’t what progressives thought
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 04, 2022
One of the most significant events in American politics is that Hispanics are, in effect, deciding that they are working-class voters rather than ethn...
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Americans want optimism
Nov 10, 2021
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would not have fallen into the trap that befell Terry McAuliffe, the hapless Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia...
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Democrats’ $3.5T spending plan to get a trim
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Sep 21, 2021
The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion price t...
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‘SNL’ presages Joe Biden’s doom
Local Columnists, Nation World
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Apr 02, 2021
The passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, a.k.a. America’s Bankruptcy Guarantee, and the effective collapse of our southern...
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Progressive Perspective: America is suffering from PTSD
Local Columnists, Nation World
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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Damage done by ‘Defund the Police’
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Nov 20, 2020
Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase “defund the police”? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear — it me...
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Medicare Advantage is breaking records
Local Columnists, Nation World
ROBERT E. MOFFIT Tribune News Service 
Oct 19, 2020
Medicare Advantage, a program of competing private health plans for Medicare beneficiaries, is breaking records for enrollment, health plan choice and...
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No, the Democrats won’t pack the Supreme Court
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 28, 2020
For many progressive opinion-makers, the only way to save the Supreme Court is to destroy it. They believe the best response to the Republican-held Se...
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The DNC’s massive evasion
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Aug 24, 2020
The number of Republicans speaking at the Democratic National Convention had progressives on edge. They shouldn’t have fretted. Even if a handful of e...
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Challenge our assumptions about racism
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
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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Should Cuomo have run for president?
Commentary, Nation World, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union, Albany (TNS) 
Sep 18, 2019
ALBANY — In the debates and on the trail, Joe Biden looks beatable. Even worse, he often seems confused and feeble. Too old, perhaps. You have to wond...
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