Articles filed under Commentary
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New behavioral hospital will make a differenceJan 15, 2018 12:00 am - On a Tuesday evening recently, a parishioner called me because she found herself confronted with a family health crisis. Her adult grandson was suicidal and needed immed...
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Steve Bannon has a legitimate pointJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - The fire and fury over Michael Wolff's book has largely centered on the personalities and power struggles within the White House. But behind all of that lies an importan...
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In Trump's White House, it's the survival of the servileJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - White House staffers have two general objectives: to serve the president and to please the president. The two do not always coincide. I can recall, as a policy adviser ...
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Just reward: A 2017 comeback story for the agesJan 12, 2018 12:00 am - Lisa Creason's life changed overnight. After working as a certified nursing assistant in Decatur for more than a decade, on Oct. 9, 2017, she walked into work as a regis...
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Trump turbocharges DemocratsJan 12, 2018 12:00 am - The 2018 elections are almost 10 months away - a lifetime in politics. But this is shaping up as a very good year for the Democrats. If they don't blow it. Remember, on ...
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Forget Twitter; look at Trump's actionsJan 11, 2018 12:00 am - The city is on fire with fury this week. The smoke was streaming out of every White House flue, door and window. A president of the United States was being doubted not f...
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With DC distracted, immigration debate reaches critical pointJan 10, 2018 12:00 am - While Washington obsesses over a new book on White House intrigue, the Trump administration is reaching a critical point on the issue of immigration, one of the presiden...
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The increasing signs that president isn't up to the jobJan 09, 2018 12:00 am - I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for him. Donald Trump, that is. Having previously posited that it's wrong to make fun of the mentally deficient, I'm reluctant to fur...
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In the Iran struggle, information is ammunitionJan 07, 2018 12:00 am - Though events in Iran are murky, their direction is historic. The Iranian regime - which has made a project of destabilizing others through terrorism and regional adven...
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Managing a future with RussiaJan 05, 2018 12:00 am - Now for one of my major resolutions for 2018 - putting Russia in necessary perspective. In the tormented era of Trump, a dominant theme has been the threats of ancient M...