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Opinion

Government should stay away from AI race

National Columnists

At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology. Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that ...

America did what was needed in Iran

National Columnists

Let me offer some rare praise for Donald Trump. His attack on Iran’s nuclear development sites was carefully executed. Nobody outside a tight circle knew about it in advance. And he was wise in shifting the talk into calls for peace. We don’t know whether the bunker busters reached all ...

Senators stays connected with constituents

National Columnists

Weeks before the election last year, Jason Zugai, the vice president of United Steelworkers Local 2227, pulled then-U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick aside at a Donald Trump rally here in Westmoreland County and asked him to meet with him and the local union regarding the then-proposed deal ...

Trump’s decision could change dynamic of Middle East

National Columnists

In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time. The New York Times initially headlined: “U.S. Enters War Against Iran.” A Washington Post editorial said: “Trump did not prepare America for his war ...

We are witnessing nation-saving, global saving

National Columnists

For 20 years, President Donald Trump has maintained that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Much of the Western world, from European powers to American presidents, has given lip service to that idea, but has done little to restrict Tehran’s theocratic leaders from building a bomb. Though ...

Prayer is what our nation needs now

National Columnists

When I read the shocking news of the assassinations of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with the attempted murders of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, it felt like watching a tragic political thriller unfold in real time. The Hoffmans miraculously ...