Opinion Columns
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: A return to soft on crime?Apr 21, 2023 1:00 am - In 1993, Richard Allen Davis, an ex-con with an 11-page rap sheet, broke into a Petaluma home, kidnapped Polly Klaas, 12, then strangled her. It was a horrific crime - a...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The twilight of a legend in the SenateApr 19, 2023 1:00 am - Dianne Feinstein, now 89 years old, has been a legend in California politics since the day she stepped in to serve as mayor of San Francisco when her predecessor was sho...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Republican edge on issues, but a bigger edge for the party that dumps its 2020 nomineeApr 19, 2023 1:00 am - It's just one poll, conducted by SSRS Research for CNN, but it provides interesting evidence about where voters are on issues, and it isn't glaringly inconsistent with o...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Death by the numbersApr 18, 2023 1:00 am - Thirty years ago, I only went to the doctor when the newspaper I was working for switched health plans and I had to get a new "primary care physician." I'd ask around un...
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Guest columnist Cristóbal Cavazos: Changes at new 'Fort Cavazos' must go deeper than its nameApr 18, 2023 1:00 am - The May 9 renaming of Fort Hood, dropping its old Confederate name in favor of Fort Cavazos in honor of the first Latino four-star and highly decorated Army Gen. Richard...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: The Fed has more than a 'credibility' problemApr 16, 2023 1:00 am - I have heard some people say that the Federal Reserve has a credibility problem. The agency missed the biggest inflation spike since the 1980s, was slow to start rolling...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Hypocrisy at every levelApr 16, 2023 1:00 am - By Susan Estrich There is nothing conservative about the ruling last week by Trump appointee Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Dist...
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Daily Herald opinion: Readers weigh in on level of Trump legal coverageApr 14, 2023 1:00 am - Looking at the prospects of ongoing news coverage of Donald Trump's legal problems, Christine McCurdy of Warrenville is almost beside herself. "I myself suffer from such...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: When Democrats attack democracyApr 14, 2023 1:00 am - By Byron York The U.S. Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give them the authority to set their own rules. The constitutions also giv...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Lessons to be learned from America's longest warApr 13, 2023 1:00 am - Just before the Easter weekend, the Biden administration provided a 12-page report on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, which ended America'...