Opinion Columns
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Kremlin aggression recalls Cold War - and challenges NATOJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - The threat of Russian military invasion of the remainder of Ukraine represents the most serious military crisis and challenge in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990...
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Odd duck sings Senate swan songJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was speaking on the Senate floor, so I rushed into the chamber, gobsmacked. The Arizona Democrat's voice was nothing special - pedestrian - but new t...
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Youngkin rips off the school mask mandateJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated an...
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A Trump-Clinton rematch? Please noJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - Say it ain't so. Trump-Clinton round two, I mean. Donald Trump is easy. He might be the only Republican who almost any Democrat could beat. Of course, he will have a har...
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Ex-Im is wasteful enough abroad - we don't need it at homeJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - For years now, the U.S. Export-Import Bank - an under-the-radar agency that provides subsidized loans to foreign firms willing to buy American products - has tried to re...
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Republicans and Democrats are capable of blowing it in NovemberJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - By Byron York Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It's true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office - how they will fix prob...
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The goal of portraying diversity in the suburbsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - There was a time not so long ago in newspapering when about the only way readers would see the face of a Black person or other minority in the paper, and especially on t...
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How to honor King's legacy: Stop ignoring injusticeJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" said Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrated this week. He and other wise women a...
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'Proportionality' and the challenge facing Biden, EuropeJan 19, 2022 10:00 pm - No one is sure what Vladimir Putin is going to do. Smash and grab, inflicting pain on Ukraine and then a pull back? March to Kyiv? Artillery or missile strikes across th...
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Joe Biden's lies may not even be in his partisan interestJan 19, 2022 12:00 am - How do you explain why an ultra-experienced politician makes a major speech on the behalf of a legislative goal that is both doomed to fail and unpopular with voters? Es...