Opinion Columns
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Will Biden leave Little Sisters free to choose?Jan 27, 2021 12:00 am - President Joe Biden likes to talk about unity and his intent to rise above partisan rancor to heal the divisions that led a pro-Trump mob to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6....
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To regain suburbs, Republicans must return to 'first principles'Jan 26, 2021 12:00 am - The Republican Party has arrived at an inflection point where many of our policy solutions have never been more relevant to helping improve citizens' lives but our messa...
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Biden's heartfelt appeal for unity likely to be unavailingJan 26, 2021 12:00 am - "We must end this uncivil war," Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president last Wednesday. Hours earlier, in his last moments as the 45th president,...
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Idealists, idealism and the compromise idealJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - At first glance, the words "idealism" and "idealist" seem almost synonymous, yet I believe they are polar opposites in meaning and substance. As humans, we all have ide...
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The important lost verses to Guthrie's anthemJan 24, 2021 12:00 am - The girls and boys are out tonight in my town, walking back and forth in front of the old gray granite public library, locking glances with men in passing cars, looking ...
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Biden using pandemic for massive expansion of governmentJan 24, 2021 12:00 am - With his policy announcement about another COVID-19 relief bill, President Joe Biden declares loud and clear that he will not shy away from spending blowouts and fiscal ...
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Biden's challenge: Bring the 30% into the foldJan 22, 2021 12:00 am - Going into Inauguration Day, a poll found that 66% of all Americans approved of the way then-President-elect Joe Biden handled the transition. Deservedly so. If ever the...
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On this MLK Day, we must acknowledge the racial injustices that remainJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - Violent police killings of Black people last year exposed the deep, festering wounds of racism in America. The callous murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard ...
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India's experience has lessons for U.S. democracyJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The frenzied mob trashing the Capitol reminded me instantly of the mob that destroyed a historic mosque, called the Babri Masjid, in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya,...
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Things I never told Sheldon AdelsonJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The knives were out for me in January 2017 when I arrived in Washington as the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You see, I worked for what sco...