Opinion Columns
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Earmarks expose self-serving politicians, distract us from bigger problemsMar 09, 2021 12:00 am - By Veronique de Rugy A fight is brewing over bringing back earmarks - provisions that are inserted into spending bills by individual members of Congress to send money to...
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It's the end of the rideMar 07, 2021 12:00 am - White House press briefings are no longer must-see TV. With former President Donald Trump gone, if you want to watch the daily briefings, you can't just turn on cable ne...
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Antidote to MarchMar 07, 2021 12:00 am - In the New England where I grew up, March was an unpopular month - wet, muddy, cold and, with the occasional late-spring snowfall and mud, really ugly. Nobody ever wrote...
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Is there any reason to think this time will be different?Mar 05, 2021 12:00 am - When public policies have produced disastrous results, and when alternative policies have resulted in immediate, seemingly miraculous improvement, why would anyone want ...
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Hoodwinked by false godsMar 05, 2021 12:00 am - By now, Friday, March 5, 2021, the revolution will have reached its full flowering. Donald Trump was reinstated as the president of the United States, President Joe Bide...
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White House in denial about border crisisMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and al...
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Who gets what, when, and howMar 04, 2021 12:00 am - "Yay for science," Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said quietly as famed photographer Annie Leibovitz got the shot...
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Texas power outages should serve as a reminder of the importance of nuclear energyMar 02, 2021 12:00 am - Recently, millions of our fellow Americans in Texas were left without electricity due to the extreme winter weather brought on by a polar vortex that swept across much o...
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2020 voters knew what they wantedMar 02, 2021 12:00 am - By Mark Shields There has always been something faintly Old Testament about the way we Americans pick our presidents. Remember the first election of the 21st century whe...
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House Democrats against free speechFeb 28, 2021 12:00 am - Democratic House members are using the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot and the coronavirus pandemic in a scary effort to censor conservatives - and get Big Media to do their di...