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Sound Off 2

Hooray for George Soros! Hooray for Madonna! Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are the real fascists. The people who Sound-Off callers keep referring to as “left-wing nutjobs” are the only true Christians in America ...

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Sound Off 1

In the city of Troy, Madden’s planning commissioner lives in Schenectady, the police chief lives in Colonie, the fire chief lives in North Greenbush, the grant writer lives in Albany, and now the new corporation counsel lives in Brunswick. Appa...

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    To review the left’s reaction to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is to infer he’s the spawn of Dracula -- a cruel and bloodless beast who shrinks from the light and plays havoc with history.

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  • Opinion

    Another View: Liberals have no case against Gorsuch

    Liberals have at their disposal three kinds of arguments against confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

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    A new right-wing justice won’t change the Supreme Court. The confirmation of Neil Gorsuch -- and he is quite likely to be confirmed -- won’t alter its makeup. A committed ultraconservative, Gorsuch would take the place of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who was also a committed (and combative) ultraconservative.

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  • Opinion

    Sound Off

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  • Opinion

    George Will: Where Justice Scalia was wrong

    With an asperity born of exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote, “If you want aspirations, you can read the Declaration of Independence,” but “there is no such philosophizing in our Constitution,” which is “a practical and pragmatic charter of government.” Scalia was wrong, and much depends on Neil Gorsuch not resembling Scalia in this regard. Gorsuch can endorse Scalia’s originalism, construing the Constitution’s text and...

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  • Opinion

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    Senate Democrats should use any and all means, including the filibuster, to block confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. They will almost surely fail. But sometimes you have to lose a battle to win a war.

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  • Opinion

    John Ostwald’s Then & Now: A trip to Florida is easily the best bang for your buck

    I just ran away to Florida for a week with my oldest son Nick. He has been in the background since his brother’s terrible accident on March 25 so I wanted to give him special attention. I have been to the Bahamas, Aruba, Bermuda and Mexico. I will probably not go to these exotic locations anymore when I know that I get everything that I want in Florida.

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  • News

    E.J. Dionne: Supreme hypocrisy

    You want bipartisanship on Supreme Court nominations? Let’s have a consensual moment around Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea that having only eight Supreme Court justices is just fine.

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