Opinion Columns
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Expanding the child tax credit ignores historical precedentJun 02, 2021 1:00 am - Marketing is everything in politics. It explains why a tax credit that benefits 90% of American families with kids - some of them with income higher than $400,000 - is m...
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Without dirty mining, you can't make clean carsJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - Before the November election, candidate Joe Biden's campaign let it be known that the Democratic nominee would part ways with environmental activists by supporting minin...
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Restoring the U.S. Postal Service should be a priority for CongressJun 01, 2021 1:00 am - When Americans were recently polled about various public institutions, the winner was rated favorably by 91 percent. Here's a hint: it wasn't the U.S. Congress. The top...
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A day to remember alliances and the sacrifices that secure our freedomMay 31, 2021 1:00 am - "Why all the fuss?" That is how retired United States Army Colonel Ralph Puckett reacted when he learned he was to receive the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary brave...
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Standing by Israel is more than just loyalty to a friendMay 30, 2021 1:00 am - When I used to do politics in Boston, there was a saying about loyalty. Loyalty isn't about sticking by your friends when they're right. That's easy; mostly, it involves...
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This should bug you more than cicadasMay 30, 2021 1:00 am - A reasonable person living in the United States over the past 17 years might have been occasionally tempted to emulate a type of cicada that lives in the regions around ...
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I'm wearing my mask for you, not meMay 28, 2021 1:00 am - I admire the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky from Harvard. She is following science, and science says there is no ...
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On reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. KennedyMay 28, 2021 1:00 am - When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exa...
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Happy 80th, darlin' bard Bob DylanMay 27, 2021 1:00 am - Bob Dylan made me break into silent tears once, in concert on Nov. 11, 2001. Two months from the Sept. 11 attacks, people were still shattered. The song was "Tangled up ...
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Let's assure my culture's contributions are part of U.S. historyMay 26, 2021 1:00 am - History is the recognition of past events. It is an ongoing story of human progress, a story interwoven with successes and failures of societies that have come before us...