Opinion Columns
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The politics of incumbent rejectionDec 28, 2023 8:41 am - At a time when voters have rejected the party of the incumbent president in the last two elections, and in which current polling has the incumbent trailing, both parties ...
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Democrats’ lawfare vs. Donald TrumpDec 28, 2023 1:00 am - The story of the 2024 campaign so far is the effort by Democrats and their appointees to use criminal charges and lawsuits to force former President Donald Trump out of t...
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The intellectual elite’s institutional rotDec 20, 2023 8:17 am - Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist a...
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Immunity disorder: The man who would be king comes out and says soDec 20, 2023 2:00 am - BY JEFF ROBBINS Syndicated columnist "There's a recklessness in the air in America" was the elegant yet apt way ABC News journalist Terry Moran put it on Friday evening. ...
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A proposal for Rosa Parks DayDec 18, 2023 11:04 am - The first day of December marked the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a White man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That simple but defi...
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If you ignore it, guess who votesDec 18, 2023 10:57 am - When I was in high school, my late mother was a receptionist in a dentist's office. Over her desk was a poster that said, "If you ignore your teeth, they'll go away." It'...
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Dec 18, 2023 10:10 am - Where far left and far right agree: Hatred of Jews Where far left and far right agree: Hatred of Jews They came waving Palestinian flags and clad in the keffiyehs that h...
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The growing need for voters to watch out for malicious AIDec 18, 2023 10:08 am - We knew this was going to happen. Indeed, has been happening for a while now, but this was more egregious. A senior Trump campaign aide posted on X a video showing NBC N...
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Reading is fundamental; critical reading even more soDec 18, 2023 10:07 am - By Jim Slusher We published a letter a few weeks ago from someone taking issue with an editorial we had published in support of a new Illinois law that requires the ...
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Fixing ‘Tier II’ issue can be both costly and an opportunityDec 18, 2023 10:06 am - The General Fund budget Gov. Pritzker inherited from his immediate predecessor Bruce Rauner could charitably be described as a “hot mess.” It was running an operating def...