Syndicated Columnists
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Crying Over Spilt BeerFeb 17, 2024 10:37 am - There's probably still a bar that uses the old beer schooners. Maybe in Chicago or Topeka or Bemidji, one of those towns with a flair for the traditional, for ethnic saus...
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Biden's Super Bowl Shrinkflation Blame GameFeb 16, 2024 6:00 am - President Joe Biden wants to remind you that your Super Bowl party was more expensive than it used to be. The reason, he claims, is corporate greed and “shrinkflation.” I...
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A Supreme compromiseFeb 16, 2024 2:30 am - If there was one lesson to be learned from Bush v. Gore, and its impact on the Supreme Court's credibility, it is that the court should not decide presidential elections....
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Trump, NATO and the mediaFeb 15, 2024 11:06 am - There's an odd dynamic that plays out when former President Donald Trump gives a campaign speech. Many news organizations have imposed a virtual blackout on his appearanc...
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Toward a demotic Republican PartyFeb 15, 2024 10:52 am - What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a d...
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The President's Tightrope: Biden Steers Between the Necessary and the PopularFeb 14, 2024 11:17 am - Civil War lore has it that after Gen. Ulysses S. Grant turned the Union's lackluster war performance around, his critics complained to President Abraham Lincoln about Gra...
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Joe Biden, Secret AgentFeb 14, 2024 11:08 am - To me, the greatest secret agent in the world of fiction is not the glamorous James Bond, but the low-key George Smiley. He's the portly, elderly, unassuming spymaster in...
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A false and unfair confusionFeb 12, 2024 12:36 pm - One of them confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi — both are, after all, women, whose first initial begins with an “N.” One of them confused the president of Mexico with...
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On this there’s no argument: Politics killed a sound immigration dealFeb 10, 2024 3:17 pm - One could argue, as the Wall Street Journal editorial page did, that the Senate border security bill, so painfully negotiated, was the “most conservative” such bill in de...
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Protection board is putting our banking arrangements at riskFeb 10, 2024 3:05 pm - Nobody likes paying fees. A fee, however, is a transparent way to reflect the price of something. And in a market economy, prices convey vital information that consumers ...