Opinion Columns
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Red Ribbon Week and fighting addictionOct 28, 2018 1:00 am - By Thomas Britton Guest columnist Seventy thousand Americans died from a drug overdose last year. In fact, if you are under the age of 50, it's the leading cause of deat...
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Mexican cop not assaulted by caravanOct 28, 2018 1:00 am - A photo of a bloodied Mexican police officer has accompanied a variety of social media posts this month, claiming the officer was brutalized by members of a caravan of m...
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U.S. security rooted in help for neighborsOct 26, 2018 1:00 am - From Honduras and Guatemala they came. Marching and staggering through the rain and heat and sometimes swimming across the tropical rivers of southern Mexico. Faces stoi...
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GOP owns the point where culture, politics meetOct 26, 2018 1:00 am - For those who believe that Donald Trump is a clownish know-nothing who somehow tapped into the mood of the electorate or just got lucky in 2016, the last month has been ...
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Now's the time for GOP women to step upOct 25, 2018 1:00 am - Slowly but inevitably, the two major political parties have become the party of women and the party of men - guess which is which - so that the 2018 midterms are shaping...
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Nunes-led Russia investigation has been invaluable, unexpectedOct 25, 2018 1:00 am - Republicans on Capitol Hill have added enormously to the public's understanding of what happened in the Trump-Russia investigation. They're still doing it. But it will c...
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U.S. has special responsibility to stand up for human rightsOct 24, 2018 1:00 am - It is probably apocryphal, but President Franklin Roosevelt reportedly noted that a particular South American dictator was a sonofabitch, but "he's our sonofabitch." Tha...
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Afghan War reveals the terrible price of security in a hostile worldOct 23, 2018 1:00 am - The Afghan War - really, the war against terrorists and their allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan - has elements of a Greek tragedy. It was unavoidable, but seemingly unw...
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We must remember the lessons of the Cuban missile crisisOct 23, 2018 1:00 am - The Cuban missile crisis occurred more than a half century ago, but the lessons of that unique and terrifying event in the Cold War continue to resonate. If anything, co...
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This column is CBD infusedOct 21, 2018 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker As a new-product junkie, it was foregone that I'd swap a C-note for something called CBD, a cannabis extract promising relief from pain and anxiety, t...