Keith Peterson
Guest columnist
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The craven sideshows that are taking over U.S. foreign policyApr 11, 2024 1:35 pm - On Jan. 10, the Senate passed a bipartisan package of foreign assistance for Ukraine, for both Israel and for Palestinians, and for Taiwan. Since then, there has been a s...
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Our baseball story starts with Wrigley Field’s outfield wallMar 27, 2024 4:55 pm - In March 1922, my father arrived in Chicago from Sweden, a month shy of his 20th birthday. He initially stayed with his faster (aunt), and in a letter to his parents he wrote that he was told that he could find every kind of work. All he had to do was choose.
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EVs and the odd pattern of choosing a car based on politicsMar 22, 2024 2:42 pm - I am of an age when a big Friday night in high school was driving from Antioch down to Waukegan and “scooping the loop” on Genesee Street — think “American Graffiti” Midw...
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Post Snoozer Tuesday reflections on what ‘pivotal’ means in politicsMar 06, 2024 3:38 pm - Pundits did not call the 15 primary elections this past week “Snoozer” Tuesday for nothing, Oh, the broadcast media did their best to call the night “pivotal” and, of cou...
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House action could achieve something where words are failing on Ukraine aidMar 06, 2024 3:32 pm - Finding the right words is important. They provide clarity, while the wrong words create confusion and distortions that obscure the truth. A story — of dubious veracity —...
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On this there’s no argument: Politics killed a sound immigration dealFeb 10, 2024 12:58 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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Mideast Sisyphus: The diplomatic hill Blinken, Burns must climbJan 30, 2024 11:58 am - Pity Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and CIA Director Bill Burns. They have been plunged into the caldron that is the Middle East and now face the Sisyphean task of tr...
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Stark choices face Congress on immigration, Social SecurityJan 16, 2024 10:57 am - Apparently, House Speaker Mike Johnson has told senators that their bipartisan border security bill is DOA when it reaches the House, though the Senate bill is not quite ...
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The folly of following polls so far from Election DayJan 05, 2024 6:19 pm - A couple of months ago, the New York Times’ David Brooks wrote a column telling Democrats to chill out about the latest polls that showed President Biden trailing. Brooks...
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The growing need for voters to watch out for malicious AIDec 18, 2023 11:48 am - We knew this was going to happen. Indeed, has been happening for a while now, but this was more egregious. A senior Trump campaign aide posted on X a video showing NBC N...
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