Articles filed under Lyons, Gene
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Glenbard West has no answer for Lyons Twp. forward pairing
May 20, 2023 9:17 PM - Katie O'Malley scored two goals -- both off assists from Caroline Mortonson -- in a 91-second span early in the second half of Saturday's Class 3A Lyons regional final. The twin strikes proved to be decisive as the top-seeded Lions rolled to a 4-0 victory.
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Yes, Antifa is dangerous -- but not to fascists
Sep 12, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Call me unromantic, but I disliked a lot about the fabled "Sixties" the first time around.
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Buyer remorse sets in for flyover country Trump voters
Aug 2, 2017 1:00 AM - Out here in flyover country, you can't hardly go by the feed store without running into a reporter doing one of those Wisdom of the Heartland stories. Seems like they could have saved themselves a bunch of trouble by listening to a Hank Williams Jr. album instead: "I live back in the woods, you see / My woman and the kids and the dogs, and me / I got a shotgun, a rifle, and a 4-wheel drive / And a country boy can survive ... " Until a few months ago, that was pretty much my life, although I'd have had a hard time without some real country boys' help. There wasn't a man on our road that couldn't do a dozen things I couldn't.
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Buyer remorse sets in for flyover country Trump voters
Aug 1, 2017 1:00 AM - By Gene Lyons "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
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Cabinet showers 'Dear Leader' with praise
Jun 15, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: If you've been wondering what "loyalty" means to President Trump, his most recent Cabinet meeting provides an illustration.
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Americans can see through Trump's 'fake news' claims
Jun 7, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Where I come from, sucker-punching or body-slamming an unsuspecting adversary isn't the mark of a tough guy. It's a punk move, a half step above smacking a woman.
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For Democrats, Obama's Wall Street payday sends the wrong signal
May 4, 2017 3:28 PM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Sen. Bernie Sanders and fellow New England puritan Sen. Elizabeth Warren are certainly correct about the dreadful optics of former President Barack Obama's decision to accept a $400,000 fee for a one-hour speech to a Wall Street bank.
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Follow the money to uncover Trump's ties to Russia
Feb 28, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: If you think about it, no wonder Donald Trump prefers the imaginative stylings of Fox News to the Presidential Daily Briefing.
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Bickering at New York Times let Trump off the hook
Jan 27, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: Now that the horses have left the barn, trotted out the front gate and are galloping headlong down the county road, editors at The New York Times have taken to public bickering about who left the stalls unlatched.
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'Hillbilly Elegy' raises provocative questions
Jan 13, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Gene Lyons: American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher has written that "Hillbilly Elegy" "does for poor white people what Ta-Nehisi Coates's book ("Between the World and Me") did for poor black people: give them voice and presence in the public square."
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