Opinion Columns
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For small businesses, looming graduated tax will double down on hardshipMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - Samantha Palya started her pet-grooming business when she was 21. Based in South suburban Palos Hills, Absolutely Pawfect Pet Styling was growing at such a rapid pace th...
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The nation's report cardMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics and geography given in 201...
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A preview of coming distractionsMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - As you probably already knew, the next six months of 2020 presidential campaigning are going to be ugly. I do not say this happily, but I do so based upon a lifetime of...
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How Congress has changedMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - If you feel like Congress has become less productive, less functional, and more partisan ... you're right. I've been thinking a lot lately about how it's changed over th...
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Joe Biden and the silence of the media lambsMay 03, 2020 1:00 am - Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar - self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made...
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There are plenty of Shyannes in foxholesMay 03, 2020 1:00 am - These days, I believe I match the description of the bad father in the old Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue." I'm 62, and I'm "big, and bent, and gray, and old," as th...
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Sure, let's talk about the Vietnam WarMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - As many news organizations have noted, in just three months, the American death toll from the coronavirus has exceeded the number of Americans who were killed in the Vie...
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Slusher: How many coronavirus deaths would you deem to be unacceptable?Apr 30, 2020 5:30 am - I am alone in my kitchen, trying to load glasses from the evening meal in the open dishwasher and choking back sobs. My wife sits under amber light at the dining table ...
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Today's Americans and yesteryear's AmericansApr 30, 2020 1:00 am - Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California Stat...
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Justin Amash can't win - he can only help Trump get reelectedApr 30, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump is everything our Founders feared. He routinely misleads or outright lies to the American people, he puts his own interests ahead of the nation, h...