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Don’t play softball with Iran
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Feb 26, 2021
President Joe Biden says he’s ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium...
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A Trump good deed receives its punishment
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Nov 04, 2020
Of all the Twitter attacks on President Trump — and there are thousands every day — one stood out on election eve. It was a photo of a woman sitting w...
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Find love in dark times
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
KATHRYN LOPEZ 
Sep 22, 2020
You can get lost in the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter feed. When I visited that infamous German WWII concentration camp during the summer before our last...
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White House right about Hong Kong
Commentary, Nation World
May 29, 2020
It is becoming increasingly clear that Hong Kong is slipping behind the curtain of dominance of mainland China. This week, the U.S. State Department d...
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China rises in coronavirus crisis
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS 
Mar 30, 2020
WASHINGTON — In the best of all pandemic-ridden worlds, the coronavirus would spur powerful countries to cooperate with one another since everyone is ...
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Troubled history of US-Iran relations
Commentary, Nation World
LAWRENCE J. KORB Tribune News Service 
Jan 09, 2020
As President Donald Trump and his advisers contemplate the next steps to take in the conflict he instigated with Iran, they are focused primarily on t...
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Letter: Don’t target Medicaid
Leters to the Editor
Jan 02, 2020
It was typical Republican rhetoric in the Dec. 26 article on New York state’s budget deficit: “a self-inflicted wound on a bloated and corrupt system....
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Letter: Can’t we turn back this demagogue?
Commentary, Leters to the Editor
Jul 29, 2019
In 1954, a senator named Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin waged war against communists in government and society. He saw the United States through red-c...
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Imagine that, joining ISIS was a bad idea
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 21, 2019
Hoda Muthana left college and her family ties in Alabama four years ago to join the Islamic State. Three husbands later — two of them dead — with ISIS...
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Eckstrom: When Yanks served ‘Oh’ver theeerrre
Commentary, Local Columnists
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Nov 12, 2018
Many Americans, who appear to know — or care — less and less about our nation’s history, nevertheless are likely to have at least a vague understandin...
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Reed, Democratic challengers differ on Trump/Kim Summit
Cattaraugus County News, Local News, News
RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 13, 2018
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Tuesday he was glad to see President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “coming together to resolve this thing...
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