Articles filed under Commentary
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Guest columnist Javeed Akhter: Timely lessons in inclusivenessApr 25, 2023 11:00 pm - A second-grade teacher of one my grandkids, Jessen Carley, did a project around Ramadan. She had an older grandchild speak to the class about Ramadan. Nothing better tha...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: One stat rarely tells the storyApr 25, 2023 1:00 am - Government debt as a share of the U.S. economy is falling. This must mean the Biden administration and Congress are practicing fiscal responsibility, right? No, it doesn...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Missing 'DiFi' in the Senate: A dilemma for DemocratsApr 25, 2023 1:00 am - Absence in the Senate makes no heart grow fonder, given a delicate balance of power, 51-49, with Democrats holding a knife edge. Consider "DiFi," Dianne Feinstein, a Dem...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Bullets of separationApr 23, 2023 1:00 am - Shoot some more cheerleaders! America isn't free yet! Yeah. That isn't funny. It's just that I don't take shooting seriously. Not anymore. In case you missed the start o...
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Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Courage needed now in Congress to shore up Social SecurityApr 23, 2023 1:00 am - The Social Security Administration's most recent report on the health of the trust fund that sustains the benefits for some 65 million Americans reported that its trust ...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: A return to soft on crime?Apr 21, 2023 1:00 am - In 1993, Richard Allen Davis, an ex-con with an 11-page rap sheet, broke into a Petaluma home, kidnapped Polly Klaas, 12, then strangled her. It was a horrific crime - a...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The twilight of a legend in the SenateApr 19, 2023 1:00 am - Dianne Feinstein, now 89 years old, has been a legend in California politics since the day she stepped in to serve as mayor of San Francisco when her predecessor was sho...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Republican edge on issues, but a bigger edge for the party that dumps its 2020 nomineeApr 19, 2023 1:00 am - It's just one poll, conducted by SSRS Research for CNN, but it provides interesting evidence about where voters are on issues, and it isn't glaringly inconsistent with o...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: Death by the numbersApr 18, 2023 1:00 am - Thirty years ago, I only went to the doctor when the newspaper I was working for switched health plans and I had to get a new "primary care physician." I'd ask around un...
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Guest columnist Cristóbal Cavazos: Changes at new 'Fort Cavazos' must go deeper than its nameApr 18, 2023 1:00 am - The May 9 renaming of Fort Hood, dropping its old Confederate name in favor of Fort Cavazos in honor of the first Latino four-star and highly decorated Army Gen. Richard...