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  • OPINION

    Restoring defense cuts will only encourage war hawks

    President Barack Obama should stay on track with his plan for a 10-year reduction in military spending of about $500 billion. We are winding down two wars, so troop cutbacks are normal. We recently ended a combat role in Iraq, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says we will do the same in Afghanistan...

    22 hours ago

  • OPINION

    Decency was Reagan’s legacy

    Every Republican presidential candidate claims to be the heir to Ronald Reagan’s legacy. For years, Republican partisans have carried Reagan’s memory before them as the ancient Israelites carried the Ark of the Covenant. Just invoking his name proved your ideological purity, and would...

    22 hours ago

  • OPINION

    Living with each other eases understanding

    Here is an encouraging fact to celebrate during Black History Month: Residential segregation is a thing of the past.

    22 hours ago

  • LAURA'S LEGAL PAD

    Child Support

    Issues to consider for child support.

    11 hours ago

  • GUY TALK

    District 6 boys' basketball pairings

    District 6 boys' basketball postseason pairings

    4 hours ago

  • SANDUSKY SCANDAL

    Court should not prohibit tweeting

    The Pennsylvania court system took two steps forward when Dauphin County court officials allowed reporters to use their electronic devices to share former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary’s testimony during a preliminary hearing to investigate the alleged sexual misconduct...

    1 day ago

  • OPINION

    Americans want leader who is rooted, resolute

    At first glance, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney share some similar traits. Both Harvard Law School grads are smart and analytical. Both are emotionally

    1 day ago

  • OPINION

    Hypocrisy and necessity in the super PAC cash-flow arms race

    “One of the worries we have obviously in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called super PACs, these independent expenditures that are gonna be out there, there is gonna be just a lot of money floating around and I guarantee a bunch of it’s gonna ...

    1 day ago

  • OPINION

    A scandalous theory worth investigating

    In the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, most of the attention has been on the late Joe Paterno and whether he did enough in handling the allegation at the time.

    2 days ago

  • YOUR LETTERS

    Mann’s ideology doesn’t belong here

    On Thursday, Penn State sponsored an address by disgraced Climategate figure Michael Mann. The fact that this speech was allowed and tacitly endorsed by Penn State officials, via the university’s Forum Speaker’s Series, should serve as a red flag to taxpayers and voters of the commonwealth...

    2 days ago

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