Articles filed under Commentary
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The GOP fight that stopped Trump's immigration planNov 14, 2021 12:00 am - In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's highest-profile promise was to build the wall - that is, to construct a barrier along about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mex...
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Biden: You've come a long way, JoeNov 14, 2021 12:00 am - I like living in a small Southern town. It's called Washington, D.C. You can study character here. President Joe Biden is not the man he was 30 years ago, and that's a g...
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History has some bad news for Biden DemocratsNov 12, 2021 12:00 am - As in the 1880s, we live in an era of polarized partisan parity, in which changes of opinion among independent voters can sweep election results. One year ago, Joe Biden...
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Haymarket proposal was not realistic for ItascaNov 12, 2021 12:00 am - In 2019, the village of Itasca was asked to consider whether Haymarket's plan to operate in the village would be reasonable. To effectively and appropriately answer this...
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Legislative session was partisan assault on individuals' rightsNov 11, 2021 10:00 pm - When Illinoisans go to the polls, they select individuals who will serve as their legislative voices when public policy decisions are made. Unfortunately, the voices and...
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Here comes the hypocritical global minimum taxNov 11, 2021 12:00 am - There is a certain irony to a group of rich countries pushing for policies that will disadvantage poorer countries. Yet this is exactly what the leaders of the world's b...
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The Rittenhouse case and the press's duty to report with depth on criminal casesNov 11, 2021 12:00 am - What you think of Kyle Rittenhouse may depend a lot on your politics. Almost as soon as he was arrested on charges of killing two people and wounding a third at a Kenos...
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State Democrats ready to step up for IllinoisNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - There's no doubt about it: though we've made progress in our state and our country, there's much more we can do to meet the challenges Illinoisans face every day. With t...
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It may be too late for Biden to save his presidencyNov 10, 2021 12:00 am - What should he do? He is President Joe Biden. The answer, at a minimum, is that more of the same just won't do. Biden's presidency, to date, has been a failure. The real...
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Only U.S. is in position to conduct effective global response to ChinaNov 09, 2021 12:00 am - When I was at National Defense University a dozen years ago, our second-semester seminars included foreign travel and it was striking that the American military officers...