Opinion Columns
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Byron York: In debate, Democrats views unchanged by Paris carnageNov 22, 2015 6:11 am - If, before the Democratic presidential debate in Iowa Saturday night, a Republican operative had been told that, in the wake of the Paris attacks: 1) Hillary Clinton wou...
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Puffy helmets make life safer for young athletesNov 22, 2015 6:00 am - The news, as I recall it, didn't create stop-and-take-notice headlines throughout Illinois. State legislators this summer made it law that virtually all schools where sp...
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Paris attacks further complicate migrant debateNov 20, 2015 4:22 am - WASHINGTON - When French President Francois Hollande addressed both houses of the French Parliament after the terrorist ravages of Paris - "We are at war!" he proclaimed...
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Gene Lyons: Let's get serious: Carson can't winNov 19, 2015 4:12 am - At the expense of spoiling all the fun, let's get real about Dr. Ben Carson's presidential campaign. Every four years, rural Iowa Republicans fall raptly in love with a ...
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Richard Cohen: Our common enemy is intoleranceNov 19, 2015 4:00 am - The eminent historian and public intellectual Niall Ferguson looked at what happened in Paris and somehow saw Rome. In his column for The Sunday Times of London, he conj...
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America's politicians are feeding the Islamic State narrativeNov 18, 2015 5:00 am - As careful as we should be in drawing lessons from tragedy - and there is something particularly disgraceful in mounting a political soapbox at a funeral - the horrors e...
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Kathleen Parker: Trump's meltown in IowaNov 18, 2015 4:00 am - You can't drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth than of the operating room. There's something vaguely b...
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Byron York: The Jeb Bush victory scenarioNov 17, 2015 4:15 am - The conventional wisdom that Jeb Bush is dead has become so unanimous it's only natural to suspect it's wrong. Yes, the polls are atrocious. Bush, now seeking traction w...
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In Iowa, the true Trump is emergingNov 17, 2015 12:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa - You can't drive far in these parts without seeing Ben Carson on a billboard, looking more like a man of the cloth than of the operating room. There's...
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Davis: Pot jokes lead to a serious topicNov 16, 2015 12:00 pm - We editor types, many of us more or less children of the '60s, had a pretty good time cracking wise about the startup of medical marijuana in Illinois and the suburbs. N...