Opinion Columns
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America's fiscal ethos: From Alexander Hamilton's day to our ownApr 12, 2024 4:00 am - Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a la...
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What we celebrate when we celebrate K9 Dax’s police careerApr 11, 2024 4:00 pm - K9 Dax is getting quite the public send-off as he moves into retirement as the Lake County Sheriff’s Department’s crime fighting police dog. Dax was celebrated at a cerem...
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The craven sideshows that are taking over U.S. foreign policyApr 11, 2024 11:49 am - On Jan. 10, the Senate passed a bipartisan package of foreign assistance for Ukraine, for both Israel and for Palestinians, and for Taiwan. Since then, there has been a s...
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Biden's loan amnesty passes the buckApr 11, 2024 4:00 am - “From Day One, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system,” President Joe Biden said to begin a video about his latest attempt to buy t...
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Disorder on the border remains a problem for Biden DemocratsApr 11, 2024 4:00 am - What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in...
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Trump TalkApr 10, 2024 4:00 am - When I wrote a few weeks ago about Donald Trump predicting a “bloodbath,” my readers — most of them in civil and respectful tones — were quick to correct me. It was only ...
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Hot air buffoons: Talking heads hand out hogwash on GazaApr 10, 2024 4:00 am - MSNBC's talk show “Morning Joe” is catnip for political junkies, especially those who detest Donald Trump. Hundreds of thousands of us, our body clocks by now conditioned...
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'Shirley' portrays the power of compassionate leadership in politicsApr 08, 2024 12:23 pm - One of the recently released spring biopics that I looked forward to is the Netflix film on Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to be elected to Congress i...
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A severe absence of ratsApr 08, 2024 12:10 pm - Sitting in courtrooms isn't an art. It is the process of hibernation, being asleep enough not to hear everything but awake enough to hear anything important. It is the li...
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Courts and gagging Donald TrumpApr 05, 2024 11:18 am - Back in 2020, the daughter of the judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York worked for a digital advertising firm that was involved in then Sen. Ka...