Opinion Columns
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Trump is at war with the central ideal of the RepublicJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Sometimes it is necessary to begin with the obvious. The claim that America needs more Norwegian migrants and fewer Africans from "sh-thole countries" is racist. It is n...
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Labels matter but real value of census designations is dataJan 16, 2018 12:00 am - According to conservative thinkers Ward Connerly and Mike Gonzalez, the Census Bureau should stop collecting data about race and ethnicity. Writing in a Washington Post ...
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New behavioral hospital will make a differenceJan 15, 2018 12:00 am - On a Tuesday evening recently, a parishioner called me because she found herself confronted with a family health crisis. Her adult grandson was suicidal and needed immed...
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Steve Bannon has a legitimate pointJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - The fire and fury over Michael Wolff's book has largely centered on the personalities and power struggles within the White House. But behind all of that lies an importan...
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In Trump's White House, it's the survival of the servileJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - White House staffers have two general objectives: to serve the president and to please the president. The two do not always coincide. I can recall, as a policy adviser ...
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Just reward: A 2017 comeback story for the agesJan 12, 2018 12:00 am - Lisa Creason's life changed overnight. After working as a certified nursing assistant in Decatur for more than a decade, on Oct. 9, 2017, she walked into work as a regis...
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Trump turbocharges DemocratsJan 12, 2018 12:00 am - The 2018 elections are almost 10 months away - a lifetime in politics. But this is shaping up as a very good year for the Democrats. If they don't blow it. Remember, on ...
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Forget Twitter; look at Trump's actionsJan 11, 2018 12:00 am - The city is on fire with fury this week. The smoke was streaming out of every White House flue, door and window. A president of the United States was being doubted not f...
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With DC distracted, immigration debate reaches critical pointJan 10, 2018 12:00 am - While Washington obsesses over a new book on White House intrigue, the Trump administration is reaching a critical point on the issue of immigration, one of the presiden...
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Freedom's principles on our campusesJan 09, 2018 4:00 am - By Walter Williams A frequent point I have made in past columns has been about the educational travesty happening on many college campuses. Some people have labeled my o...