Opinion and Editorial

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Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate?

Opinion: In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like


Dying for scrap metal

Opinion: Dying for scrap metal Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.: A man was electrocuted Wednesday and a


Melting pot could use improvement

Opinion: On those days when I pick our children up from school, I often feel like I’m operating in a parallel


40 years after Wounded Knee

Opinion: By Mark Anthony Rolo McClatchy-Tribune It’s been 40 years since American Indian activists ended


State panel keeps demanding budget cuts in Liberty schools

Editorial: Seven months ago, the Liberty Local School District received an ominous warning: If the board of


United at last, thanks to IRS

Opinion: By Robin Abcarian Los Angeles Times Finally, a small cadre of busybody bureaucrats has


Obamacare is headed for hearings

Opinion: Obamacare is headed for hearings What’s the endgame for the legislative mash-up called Obamacare?


Forgetting Watergate’s lesson

Opinion: “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in


Let Exterran serve as model for accelerated Valley growth

Editorial: The official opening of Exterran Energy Solutions’ $13 million 65,000-square-foot advanced


Pa. deserves part of the blame in abortion doctor’s butchery

Opinion: Philadelphi Inquirer: Kermit Gosnell has been found guilty of the very savagery that legalized


IRS’ mirror-image scandal

Opinion: WASHINGTON Sputtering adjectives — outrageous, appalling, intolerable — can scarcely do justice to


An attack on civil liberties is an attack on American ideals

Opinion: By Brian Gilmore McClatchy-Tribune Let’s not allow the tragic bombings in Boston to become an


Learn how to help your neighbors

Opinion: Learn how to help your neighbors At the Mahoning-Youngs- town Community Action Partnership, we


Meat industry must beware

Opinion: By Dan Paden People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Most of us — even those of us who eat


Hypocrisy rules day in Mideast

Opinion: It didn’t take long after news that Israel had bombed military facilities inside Syria for the Arab