Opinion Columns
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Joe Biden's intentional crisisOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - Syndicated columnist The continuing incursion of illegal border crossers into the United States is the most astonishing story in American politics. There have been days...
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Flop House: The GOP's 'impeachment inquiry' lays an eggOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - The tip-off that House Republicans' cobbled-together opening of their "impeachment inquiry" into President Joe Biden was going to flop came last Wednesday, the day befor...
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Managing U.S. budget is more than just spending or cuttingOct 01, 2023 1:00 am - If you Google "U.S. federal budget calculator," you will find a number of sites that allow you to play Budget God and decide how the federal budget might be brought into...
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Solving America's housing woes or making them worse?Oct 01, 2023 1:00 am - America needs more housing. Pressure for reform is only growing as available homes get less and less affordable. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the root cause of ...
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Justice Kagan speaks outSep 29, 2023 1:00 am - Justice Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, weighed in last week publicly on what is really a crisis facing the United States Supreme Court. The crisis c...
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The problem with being Mike PenceSep 29, 2023 1:00 am - Mike Pence is polling under 5% in the RealClearPolitics polling average; that low number placed the former vice president at a far end on the Fox Business News debate st...
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Sharp rise in poverty requires a call to actionSep 28, 2023 1:00 am - Census Bureau data released earlier this month showed an increase in the number of Americans who are living in poverty, and one of the most disturbing findings is that t...
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Anatomy of a front page: Photos, stories, shifting news valuesSep 28, 2023 1:00 am - What we at the Daily Herald and many other newspapers call the "centerpiece" has been a mainstay of our front-page design for at least four decades. The concept is a der...
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The AI challenge facing teachers, studentsSep 27, 2023 1:00 am - As a longtime college instructor and administrator, I've witnessed some impressive instances of cheating: A student concealing test answers inside a water bottle label; ...
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The GOP's Pied PiperSep 27, 2023 1:00 am - Former President Donald Trump "deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long," Peyton Reffitt, 18, told The Washington Post. Her father, Guy, was sente...