Opinion Columns
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Feel-good ideas that need a hardheaded examinationAug 15, 2017 1:00 am - Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though, it's largely ignoring othe...
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Though culture has changed, higher education still the same process of discoveryAug 14, 2017 1:00 am - It's that time again. All over the United States, a fresh crop of high school seniors are heading off to some college campus to pursue a "higher" education. Here on our...
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For wisdom on North Korea, Trump should pay a visit to the White House libraryAug 13, 2017 1:00 am - Donald Trump doesn't spare much time for reading. "I never have," he explains. "I'm always busy doing a lot." But what he is now busy doing is managing a global crisis w...
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Construction nightmares? Depends on your route to workAug 12, 2017 2:00 pm - So, I was running late Friday, and the first light I encountered turned yellow well before I had hit the intersection. Opted not to chance it. A few blocks later, a guy ...
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The art of the bluffAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - How did we get here? Why does it appear that we're on the brink of a war in Asia, one that could involve nuclear weapons? North Korea has had nuclear-weapons capacity fo...
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State Department divided on missionAug 11, 2017 1:00 am - By Byron York As part of what he calls a "redesign" of the State Department, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has surveyed more than 35,000 State employees on the most f...
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Coalition of the governingAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, wrote to her Republican counterparts extending "the hand of friendship" and offering "to work in a bipartisan fashion" to fix ...
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Echoes of Vietnam reverberate in AfghanistanAug 10, 2017 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer You will be forgiven for confessing that you are confused about where we are going in Afghanistan. You might also add that you still are not sure w...
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With his blistering book, Sen. Flake shows the 'conscience of a conservative'Aug 09, 2017 1:00 am - That sound you hear is the wall of elected Republican support for Donald Trump beginning to crack. There was Sen. Lindsey Graham warning that firing special counsel Rob...
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The Democrats should rethink immigration absolutismAug 08, 2017 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria In 1992, the Democratic Party faced a challenge on the issue of abortion. Pennsylvania's governor, Robert Casey, a Democrat dedicated to the working cl...