Articles filed under Commentary
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Guest columnist Matt Paprocki: An unlimited property tax hike may be hidden in proposed amendmentAug 21, 2022 1:00 am - There's a familiar feeling of dread many Illinoisans share when the county notices appear in their mailboxes. They know their property tax bills will cause them pain. Th...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Broken border, dysfunctional governmentAug 18, 2022 1:00 am - The wages of sanctimony hover over New York Mayor Eric Adams. With President Joe Biden's policies drawing record numbers of migrants to cross the Texas border illegally,...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Members of 'Silent Generation' still have much to say and doAug 18, 2022 1:00 am - Historian David McCullough has left us at 89, a beloved storyteller of presidents and nation-building feats such as the Brooklyn Bridge. Author Douglas Brinkley likened ...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: The dwindling difference between our two parties on spendingAug 17, 2022 1:00 am - For a few years, I have sounded the alarm that a growing wave of conservatives are working to make Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats on social spending. Some ...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: 86,852 new IRS employees is too many, too fastAug 17, 2022 1:00 am - You've probably heard Republicans say the Inflation Reduction Act - the massive spending bill just passed by Senate Democrats - includes provisions to hire 87,000 new In...
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Syndicated columnis Marc Munroe Dion: Out here in search warrant countryAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - As a resident of the urban Northeast, I'm in a very, very good position to write about search warrants, restraining orders and how to get on disability by faking a menta...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Trump goes all silent treatmentAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - Former President Donald Trump has every right to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as he did Wednesday during a civil deposition conducted by ...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: How will future McCulloughs see our time?Aug 11, 2022 1:00 am - The death this week of historian David McCullough has rekindled a line of thinking that I've dwelt on a lot recently. It follows from this question: "How will historians...
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Guest columnist Greg Pagliuzza: Although imperfect, climate bill is crucial for America's futureAug 11, 2022 1:00 am - God made carbon. Carbon is good. It is essential for life as we know it, including ourselves. Yet, we suffer when too much of it lands in our atmosphere as it is now. It...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Finland and Sweden further strengthen NATOAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - On Aug. 3, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote was 95 to 1, far more than the tw...