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The credibility game is on in D.C.
Forget the political “blame game.” The biggest game in town now is the credibility game — a high-stakes exercise that will end with America’s political middle deciding who is trustworthy and who is...
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Needed: More of us who are willing to carry the fire
Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” is about a man and his son living 10 years after a cataclysmic event in a dark dystopian future. In their world, the sky is filled with ash. The sun is blotted ou...
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Scandals a product of poor leadership
Some scandals currently engulfing Washington – such as the Administration’s actions surrounding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, the Department of Justice (DOJ) having subpoenaed two months of th...
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Climate change can be affected
To the Editor: A review of 12,000 papers on climate change, in the May 15th issue of “Environmental Research Letters,” found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activi...
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Tax credit repeal? Economic wasteland
We owe an enormous debt as a nation and state to coal. Coal fueled the Industrial Revolution, which made our lives a whole lot easier than most of our ancestors’ years of unremitting toil. Througho...
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Don’t judge journalism by Facebook standards
Scott Pelley of CBS News raised eyebrows and passions among journalists at a Quinnipiac University luncheon the other day when he said, “Our house is on fire.” He was talking about challenges to th...
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