Articles filed under Commentary
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Reporting on a tornado in a 24-hour news cycleJun 24, 2021 1:00 am - We're all familiar with the 24-hour cycle in which news circulates today. For complex political and social issues, that cycle gets blamed for a lot of premature, misinfo...
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Juneteenth celebration is prematureJun 23, 2021 1:00 am - The celebration of Juneteenth is premature. We should celebrate only when everyone is treated equally and fairly. When in some states the vote of legitimate voters is be...
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Time has shown foreign aid benefits us, tooJun 23, 2021 1:00 am - The recent G-7 summit shows great promise from the leading liberal democracies to help support developing nations recover from COVID-19. Over the past couple years we ha...
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Who said you can age gracefully?Jun 23, 2021 1:00 am - Aging gracefully. If ever I heard of an oxymoron, that's it. There is nothing graceful about all the medical tests - and enhanced risks - that seem to come with each dec...
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If you can't beat them, bully them into joining youJun 23, 2021 1:00 am - For several decades now, politicians around the world have tried to curtail tax competition to make it easier for them to increase the tax burdens on their citizens with...
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Democrats trapped in progressive echo chamberJun 22, 2021 1:00 am - The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. They have no majority ...
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A primer on separation of church, stateJun 22, 2021 1:00 am - Apparently, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has been much in the news for his outlier comments on COVID-19, is at it again. He just so happened to go to a synagogue in...
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Father's Day: Fatherless, America's top domestic problemJun 20, 2021 1:00 am - A new powerful new documentary called "The Streets Were My Father" features three Chicago men, two Hispanics and one Black, who grew up without fathers. All three did ha...
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Juneteenth: A bittersweet holidayJun 18, 2021 1:00 am - Every Independence Day, I have 30 to 40 family and friends at my house in Evanston for a cookout. I always brag that my menu of chicken rice pilaf with vegetables, grill...
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Harris needs to warm up her actJun 17, 2021 1:00 am - She hasn't had a good moment yet. Brittle is the word, without a bit of President Joe Biden's bonhomie. I speak of Vice President Kamala Harris, who made history as the ...