Articles filed under Commentary
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Leaving politics behind for a life of pieDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - Donald Trump has not been reinstated as president; dark forces continue to conceal Hillary's emails; it seems all those school shootings really happened; and no dead mem...
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From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - In 1974, when I walked out of an alley in Boston's Back Bay, it was pretty much "just me." Of course, millions of women were raped (we didn't have a word for sexual hara...
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Kyle Rittenhouse's offense: insufficiently respecting riotersNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - Why the hatred of Kyle Rittenhouse? Why was there such widespread dishonest news coverage of the case against him that his acquittal by the Kenosha, Wisconsin, jury came...
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Some things to remember about blame, credit for gasoline pricesNov 30, 2021 12:00 am - I'm the first to admit that I should have paid closer attention to Samuelson when I took Econ260, but one thing that I do remember is that high prices are an antidote fo...
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For Democrats, the word is 'transform'Nov 26, 2021 12:00 am - Remember when Joe Biden ran for president in what commentators called the "centrist" lane of the Democratic primaries? The idea was that a "moderate" like Biden, unlike ...
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Democracy's fate in the chill winds of NovemberNov 26, 2021 12:00 am - Thanksgiving is all about saving the Union from forces that almost destroyed it. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday in 1863, midway through the b...
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A Thanksgiving reminder of the abundance of good in the newsNov 25, 2021 12:00 am - A common contemporary cliché describes Thanksgiving Dinner as a homespun Rockwellian tableau trembling to mask the promise of political eruptions over events in the news...
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How cultivating your purpose begins with knowing yourselfNov 25, 2021 12:00 am - The first time I ever wrote something with the intent of sharing it beyond the classroom was through 4-H. I grew up in a small town in northern Kentucky, right across th...
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A Thanksgiving reminder of the abundance of good in the newsNov 25, 2021 12:00 am - A common contemporary cliché describes Thanksgiving Dinner as a homespun Rockwellian tableau trembling to mask the promise of political eruptions over events in the news...
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Democratic politicians act as though theirs are the only interests that count in IllinoisNov 24, 2021 12:00 am - A government operating on the principle of by the people, for the people, means we are citizens, not subjects. Government exists by our consent, following due process of...