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Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

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Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this:...

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

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Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting column: The child who falls apart after school

The teacher describes your child as pleasant, cooperative, and helpful. You briefly wonder whether there has been a clerical error. At home, the...

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Dr Randy Cale

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Q. My wife is looking for a new car and is considering the Genesis GV70. Do you have any thoughts on the vehicle? A. I really have a hard time finding...

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John Paul

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Adaptation

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Adaptation

Do I like that I can type a string of stream-of-consciousness thoughts into my computer’s internet browser, and, after a few moments of gazing at...

26.09.2026 6

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Siobhan Connally

Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

The flight of Hispanic voters from the Republican Party is one of the most important trends this political season, and a few numbers explain why. In...

26.09.2026 3

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

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Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

Did you know that recently released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That’s an...

26.09.2026 5

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Don Rittner’s column: Saratoga vs. Capital District

Don Rittner’s column: Saratoga vs. Capital District

Historic preservation looks very different in Saratoga Springs than it does in the rest of the Capital District. Both places have deep architectural...

26.09.2026 20

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Don Rittner

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

25.09.2026 3

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Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...

24.09.2026 3

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

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Tom Purcell: Parents choosing Catholic school values

Tom Purcell: Parents choosing Catholic school values

In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think...

23.09.2026 6

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Tom Purcell

Dick Polman: The First Amendment is not a fascist chew toy

Dick Polman: The First Amendment is not a fascist chew toy

In his latest fascist brain fart, the tinpot lord of the White House construction site has hereby banished three media outlets from what’s left of...

23.09.2026 5

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Dick Polman

Cartoonist’s Take: September 22, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 22, 2026
22.09.2026 9

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Jonah Goldberg: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump

Jonah Goldberg: The war in Ukraine is becoming very inconvenient for Trump
21.09.2026 10

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Inspiration from a Hong Kong cell

21.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 21, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 21, 2026
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Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting column: The power of enough

20.09.2026 10

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Dr Randy Cale

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’
20.09.2026 10

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John Paul

Cartoonist’s Take: September 20, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 20, 2026
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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: All day breakfast

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: All day breakfast
19.09.2026 10

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Siobhan Connally

Ask the attorney column: Should I be worried ‘Flock’ camera footage could be used in my criminal case?

Ask the attorney column: Should I be worried ‘Flock’ camera footage could be used in my criminal case?
19.09.2026 10

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Steven Roberts: Trump is on the ballot

Steven Roberts: Trump is on the ballot

“Please pretend that I am running,” Trump told Republicans at their recent convention in Dallas. Well, no one has to pretend. Democrats agree...

19.09.2026 10

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Byron York: Trump, inflation and the midterms

Byron York: Trump, inflation and the midterms

Last week, the Commerce Department released inflation figures for August, and what they showed was … more of the same. The year-over-year inflation...

19.09.2026 10

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Don Rittner: Bring General Philip Schuyler back to Albany

Don Rittner: Bring General Philip Schuyler back to Albany

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the men and women of New York stood at the center of the struggle that created the United States – the first civil...

19.09.2026 10

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Don Rittner

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 19, 2026

19.09.2026 10

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Reader’s View: Suicide prevention is everyone’s responsibility

September is Suicide Prevention Month – a time to raise awareness, remember those we have lost, and remind our community that prevention is possible...

18.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 18, 2026

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Tom Purcell: Not enough rich people to tax

There aren’t enough rich people to tax to fund what Democratic Socialists of America candidates are promising. The millionaire next door When the...

17.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s take: Sept. 16, 2026

“Trump renames the world” Cagle Cartoons.

16.09.2026 10

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Alexandra Paskhaver: Well, well weddings

A wedding is when two people celebrate their love by financially ambushing everyone they know. I have not attended many weddings. In part, this is...

16.09.2026 20

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Alexandra Paskhaver

Dick Polman: Senate slacker John Fetterman needs to pack up his hoodies

John Fetterman is acid reflux surging through our body politic. Surely there must be a cure. But good luck with that. Hounding him until he quits is...

15.09.2026 10

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Dick Polman

Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 15, 2026

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Kathryn Jean Lopez: Bad anniversaries

One weekday morning about a decade ago, I was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City, waiting in line to go to confession. My...

14.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s take: Sept. 14, 2026

“Trump offers hush money for votes,” by Adam Zyglis, via Cagle Cartoons.

14.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 13, 2026

13.09.2026 10

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Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Q. My 2016 Honda Accord has the four-cylinder engine and 112,000 miles on it. The car is throwing a P0420 code, catalyst efficiency below threshold....

13.09.2026 10

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John Paul

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terriffic Parenting: What can wait — and what cannot

“Let me just finish this.” It is a reasonable thing to say. We have work to complete, messages to answer and responsibilities that do not...

12.09.2026 10

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Dr Randy Cale

Byron York: Trump and his voters

A new analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits...

12.09.2026 10

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Steven Roberts: Big lie, bad policy

Donald Trump has repeatedly argued — without evidence of any kind — that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Now he’s trying to rig the...

12.09.2026 10

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Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: I do not want to speak to your manager

I fully intended to stay calm. This was the kind of low-stakes errand that didn’t have to set my emotions aflame. I was committed to returning a set...

12.09.2026 10

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Siobhan Connally

Don Rittner: Why like history?

After writing a history column for several decades, I often get asked why I like history. Well, because I’m human. No other species has the concept...

12.09.2026 10

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Nicholas Buonano

Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 12, 2026

12.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 11, 2026

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Elwood Watson: Gloria Steinem and the expansion of feminism

Gloria Steinem, who died last week at the age of 92, was the face of modern feminism who labored for decades to garner rights, protections, and...

10.09.2026 10

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 10, 2026

10.09.2026 10

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Tom Purcell: How college tuition has gotten so high

Why is four-year college tuition so high in America? William Bennett, President Reagan’s secretary of education, offered his hypothesis in 1987. In...

09.09.2026 10

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