Opinion Columns
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When this pandemic ends, we'll have decisions to makeMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schultz A favorite book I try never to be without is by the late Irish poet and priest John O'Donohue. It's on my bedside table, on my Kindle and on the Kindle...
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Scouting's disappointing slide belies youthful memoriesMar 19, 2020 1:00 am - Fifty-three years ago, I attended my final Boy Scout meeting. My life had moved in a different direction and though I had not attained the rank of Eagle, my scouting exp...
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Finally, president and public coming to see gravity of COVID-19Mar 18, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump's Monday press conference showed for the first time that he is finally understanding the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic. On multiple occasions h...
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Joe Biden: A 'centrist' moves further leftMar 18, 2020 1:00 am - It's an indisputable fact that the Democratic Party has moved left in recent years. Now, the party is about to choose a standard-bearer in the person of former Vice Pres...
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For anti-fragile Trump Coronavirus can be a catalyst, not a threatMar 17, 2020 1:00 am - It has been a foregone conclusion among many economic thinkers that the cheaper manufacturing alternatives offered by China and other low-wage foreign countries made the...
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Supply and demand, hoarding, price gouging - and the coronavirusMar 17, 2020 1:00 am - As the saying goes, "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." I would add, "and anti-price gouging legislation in times of crisis." Yet price increases in the face of su...
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Making the decision to give better and become betterMar 16, 2020 1:00 am - "Progress is strength." That's a quote I have carried with me since the day it was said to me. I was 16 the first time I encountered a Marine Corps recruiter. It was a...
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Two bad handsMar 15, 2020 1:00 am - Do you want to know the truth? It's coronavirus season, and it's election season, and my wife's disinfecting all the doorknobs in the house every night, and all the cand...
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Can science lead to dumb panic?Mar 15, 2020 1:00 am - Can science lead to dumb panic? It's a question I've been asking as the stock market cannibalized itself in response to the coronavirus outbreak, academia shuttered clas...
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Panic, if you must, and then pivotMar 13, 2020 1:00 am - When is the last time someone told you to calm down, and it worked? I'm not seeing a lot of raised hands. Having someone tell us we're overreacting is annoying and cond...