Opinion Columns
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Guest View: HB825 amounts to tax on rainApr 09, 2019 1:00 am - By State Rep. Allen Skillicorn Guest columnist "I know to you it might sound strange. But I wish it would rain." - The Temptations There isn't anything Springfield won...
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Gerson: Feelings aside, white supremacy must be undoneApr 09, 2019 1:00 am - By MICHAEL GERSON WASHINGTON - The national debate on race - which the president has made more angry and urgent with his racial demagoguery - is hindered by imprecise la...
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Skillicorn: Democrats' rain tax will become a delugeApr 09, 2019 1:00 am - By State Rep. Allen Skillicorn Guest columnist "I know to you it might sound strange. But I wish it would rain." - The Temptations There isn't anything Springfield won...
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Political and policy skills are mergingApr 05, 2019 1:00 am - Here's a surprise: the skills that can be used to win in politics are increasingly the skills needed to produce good policy. I know. You look at the policy stalemates in...
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How bad does border have to be for Democrats to admit it's an emergency?Apr 05, 2019 1:00 am - Is there any number of illegal border crossings into the United States that would strike Democrats as an emergency? As they resisted President Donald Trump's efforts to ...
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Columnists Steve and Cokie Roberts caution against dumping the Electoral CollegeApr 04, 2019 11:00 pm - By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts Democrats are really frustrated, and for good reason. After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, Republicans succ...
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Guest View: President Trump's executive order on free speech is all politicsApr 04, 2019 11:00 pm - Last Thursday, President Donald Trump signed his long-promised Executive Order concerning free speech on campus. Entitled "Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency and Accou...
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Columnist Fareed Zakaria says President Trump's encouragement for more legal immigration might be on targetApr 04, 2019 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border has confused even his allies. Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, said it "would be bad for ...
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The irony in #MeToo controversy over Joe Biden's flirtationsApr 04, 2019 1:00 am - CAMDEN, S.C. - At a recent brunch here preceding the Carolina Cup steeplechase race, the host gave me a gift of hometown recognition and, though we are friends, extended...
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The diverse, and tasty, elements that go into election coverageApr 04, 2019 1:00 am - Random thoughts about news coverage as another election season comes to an end: • In 1999, school board and municipal elections were combined, primarily to save the cost...