Opinion Columns
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School's out foreverDec 05, 2023 12:00 am - Woody Allen famously said, "Eighty percent of success is showing up." If he's right, that's bad news for some 30% of public-school students who, according to a recent st...
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Appeals court decision on voting rights is a step backwardDec 05, 2023 12:00 am - As I was reading about the current legal challenges regarding Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, I, and I'm sure many others, immediately thought about the triumphant S...
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The children of BuddhaDec 03, 2023 12:00 am - Buddha says don't fight back. Christ says the same thing. Both are widely ignored. In Israel, on the border with what may or may not be Palestine, there is red war and y...
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Kissinger was a foreign-policy realist toward global affairsDec 01, 2023 12:00 am - A few years ago, I attended a lecture where historian Niall Ferguson explained how Henry Kissinger approached him at a cocktail reception to ask if Ferguson would be int...
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America, France, and the free marketDec 01, 2023 12:00 am - It's fashionable to claim that the free-market ideas of Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed the country, and that it's time for new policies. Campaignin...
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A big thanks to America's women votersDec 01, 2023 12:00 am - I admit I am not thankful for the climate change deniers, assault weapons supporters and election rejecters so prevalent on the American political scene. What I am thank...
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Churches teaching Black history have a unique opportunityNov 30, 2023 12:00 am - At the end of October, NPR reposted a story that featured an interview with Sharon Riley, the pastor of Orlando, Florida's Agape Perfecting Praise and Worship Center. In...
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The Truman show: another uncool president makes his markNov 30, 2023 12:00 am - On Dec. 26, 1972, hours after Harry Truman's death, Senator-elect Joseph Biden sent Truman's widow a condolence telegram. The 33rd American president, Biden wrote, had p...
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Fare hikes will punish suburban commuters for Metra's errorsNov 29, 2023 12:00 am - Commuting just got more expensive. The Metra Board of Directors recently approved the $1.1 billion 2024 budget proposal, including the controversial new fare structure. ...
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The Netanyahu of it allNov 29, 2023 12:00 am - What do Jews talk about when we talk about the war between Israel and Hamas? Obviously many things, including the outing of all the anti-Semites out there and what's hap...