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He grew up when the Wabash country still had a frontier ethic, came to power as America was sensing its own potential for power and became perhaps the most powerful man in William Howard Taft’s Washington. He smoked cigars by the score and wore a felt hat at his desk as well as in the street. He was Speaker John Joseph Gurney Cannon, and the rebellion against his despotism came 100 years ago next week.
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Evil is not a color.
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WASHINGTON — As the Afghanistan War intensifies — Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops—it has come to be seen as Obama’s war. Not so. It’s become America’s war. When the former opposition party — habitually anti-war for the last four decades — adopts, reaffirms and escalates a war begun by the habitually hawkish other party, partisanship falls away, and the war becomes nationalized.
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A recent wave of scandals involving black elected officials has reawakened old familiar suspicions of racial conspiracies, even though the evidence so far points mostly to self-inflicted wounds.
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Six years ago, my wife and I moved from a 2,800-square-foot home in North Buffalo into just under 1,400 square feet of livable housing in the West Village within the shadows of City Hall. We wanted to simplify our lifestyle by moving into a smaller, more efficient home with just the right amount of green space. Being empty nesters, this decision appeared to be both practical and desirable.
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With the state’s finances at a crisis point, it is time for bold ideas that will not only get us through these difficult times, but return New York to greatness. The Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act is an idea of that magnitude.
