Opinion Columns
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Not with a 10-foot pollNov 08, 2022 12:00 am - Don't read any more polls, not even if the midterms are here. Well, actually, you don't "read" polls. You "look at" polls. They're just numbers, although you can read a ...
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Guests Shannon Finn Connell and Frank Larkin: Invisible wounds plague too many veterans. We can all help.Nov 06, 2022 12:00 am - With Veterans Day approaching, many troops and veterans based in Illinois, home to roughly 500,000 men and women who served the nation, will again be confronted with a h...
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Facts Matter: False reports flow following Paul Pelosi attackNov 05, 2022 1:00 am - Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked brutally last week by a man armed with a hammer who broke into the couple's San Francisco home. Nancy Pe...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: How do you judge a local judge?Nov 03, 2022 1:00 am - United States Supreme Court decisions have understandably been at the top of everyone's mind in recent months. Decisions made in our nation's highest court do trickle do...
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Columnist Lee Hamilton: A trying time for American electionsNov 02, 2022 1:00 am - As the November general election approaches, I've been struck by the rise of an unusual type of news coverage. It's focused not on the campaigns, but on the running of e...
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Guest columnist Arlen Gould: Decisions intended to save the country and the Republican PartyNov 01, 2022 1:00 am - Friends ask me what politically keeps me up at night. What are the issues that will determine my vote? As a lifelong Republican and as a Republican who has chaired many ...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Kanye and the peddling of hateNov 01, 2022 1:00 am - Kanye West is wrong for so many reasons, but none more basic than this: If Jews really had half as much power over the media and everything else, as he says we do, we wo...
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Facts Matter: Republicans did not announce plans to gut benefitsOct 29, 2022 1:00 am - An image circulating on social media appears to show an agenda worked up by House Republicans going into the midterms. An Oct. 17 Instagram post of the graphic, which in...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Will the 'experts' ever learn their lesson?Oct 28, 2022 1:00 am - Debate now rages about whether the Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to tame inflation or slow down these hikes and see what happens. This is not t...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: What's worse: Big Government or Big Tech? BothOct 28, 2022 1:00 am - When the federal government gets together with social media giants to censor critics of the government, is that free speech or censorship? A case moving its way through ...