Articles filed under Commentary
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Slusher: How many coronavirus deaths would you deem to be unacceptable?Apr 30, 2020 5:30 am - I am alone in my kitchen, trying to load glasses from the evening meal in the open dishwasher and choking back sobs. My wife sits under amber light at the dining table ...
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Today's Americans and yesteryear's AmericansApr 30, 2020 1:00 am - Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California Stat...
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Justin Amash can't win - he can only help Trump get reelectedApr 30, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump is everything our Founders feared. He routinely misleads or outright lies to the American people, he puts his own interests ahead of the nation, h...
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Of mice and a worldwide pandemicApr 29, 2020 1:00 am - As the government of an extremely small nation/house, our first mistake was ignoring the experts. For days, our two cats, Maggie and Jack, had spent their evenings in th...
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Image of cultural 'virus' is built on stereotypes, untruthsApr 29, 2020 1:00 am - I read with interest the Thursday, April 23, column headlined "A virus before the virus" and written by Armstrong Williams in the Opinion Section of the Daily Herald. Wi...
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We are only beginning to understand lessons of COVID-19Apr 28, 2020 1:00 am - COVID-19, described in many circles as the pandemic of the century, has already shaken the core of the world order. Millions of people have been infected, with many thou...
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Must we insult anyone who dares to offer hope? Must we insult anyone who dares to offer hope?Apr 28, 2020 1:00 am - Bless Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman for wanting to open up Las Vegas for business as soon as possible. Then breathe a sigh of relief that she doesn't get to make it ha...
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Class of 2020 must build on humanity's hope in time of crisisApr 27, 2020 1:00 am - With Gov. J.B. Pritzker announcing that schools will be closed for the rest of the year, I have officially ended my senior year in the most unanticipated and upsetting w...
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Frank advice from a close friendApr 26, 2020 1:00 am - There was, I can testify, a lot more drinking in Washington, D.C., before May 15, 1978. That was the date, through the grace of God, that I had my last drink of beer or ...
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Fighting the virus with personal freedom in socialist SwedenApr 26, 2020 1:00 am - We know the world is upside down when conservative media start praising Sweden - land of an expansive welfare state and the taxes to support it, not to mention climate a...