Opinion Columns
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Palestinians should give Trump peace plan a chanceFeb 07, 2020 12:00 am - President Donald Trump's brilliant plan for Mideast peace has triggered a sandstorm of negativity and deflection from the regular naysayers who attack anything the presi...
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Never Trump challengers fail first big testFeb 06, 2020 12:00 am - AMES, Iowa - For six months, some of President Donald Trump's most implacable foes have invested great hope in two Republicans - former Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massach...
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Washington's positively historic actions on Alzheimer's researchFeb 06, 2020 12:00 am - By Luisa Echevarria Something historic happened in our nation's capital recently, and the consequences have the potential to profoundly impact the future and change the...
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Tariffs and economic realitiesFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - I have been teaching economics since 1967 - 40 years of it at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. During that interval, economic reality has not changed. Just ...
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Impeachment and the endless war of personal smearsFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - In the midst of the impeachment trial in the Senate, The New York Times had a big scoop. The paper learned that, according to a yet-to-be-published tell-all book by Pres...
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New round of tariffs promise same results as before - higher pricesFeb 04, 2020 12:00 am - The Tariff Man has done it again. President Donald Trump recently announced that he will expand import taxes on American consumers of auto parts, nails and other goods m...
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Ranking choices could lead to better election resultsFeb 02, 2020 12:00 am - Feb. 26, 2019, could have been a transformational moment for Chicago with a mayoral election composed of nine diverse candidates. Voters stemming from all backgrounds, ...
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Leadership mattersFeb 02, 2020 12:00 am - At the time of the American Revolution, the future United States was a small, colonial backwater on the world stage. There were an estimated 2 million to 3 million peopl...
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The view of impeachment Republicans don't want you to seeJan 31, 2020 12:00 am - Even if you've been watching gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Senate's impeachment trial, there's little you've been able to see beyond Chief Justice John Rober...
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5G wireless: Marketing hype or true progress?Jan 31, 2020 12:00 am - Everyone loves a shiny new toy, even if the old toy is working just fine. As a result, expert marketers capitalize on this human "flaw" and find ways to create a fear of...