Opinion Columns
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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...
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Don't hate the political players; hate the political gameJan 15, 2021 12:00 am - Many Americans are very upset that President-elect Joe Biden will replace President Donald Trump. For most of them, it's not that they will miss Trump's unconventional a...
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To persuade is the highest goal of newspaper editorialsJan 13, 2021 10:00 pm - By Jim Slusher Persuasion has been called a "gentle art." More often, people approach it with a fiery hammer. Gentility may not be exactly what we need in these troubled...
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Source of income discrimination - let's end itJan 13, 2021 12:00 am - In the age of coronavirus and with an economy on the brink of catastrophe, none of us can afford to turn our noses up at government aid. Many were happy to receive those...
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Will Democrats ditch a policy that's produced more equal incomes?Jan 13, 2021 12:00 am - By Michael Barone The policies of defeated one-term presidents are not as easily reversed as their victorious successors, suffused with campaign rhetoric, sometimes sup...
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Rushed justice reform bill will endanger societyJan 12, 2021 12:00 am - Recently, a 611-page criminal justice reform bill, HB163, was filed for a three-day "lame-duck" legislative session this week. Unfortunately, this legislation would seve...