Articles filed under Politics
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Editorial: Who are the real RINOs? The Trump critics or the Trump enablers?Aug 21, 2021 2:00 pm - It's grown increasingly fashionable over recent years for staunch conservatives to dismiss social moderates in the GOP as RINOs, Republican in Name Only. Former Sen. Mar...
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Robbins: Freedom of speech gets squeezed from both sidesAug 20, 2021 1:00 am - "When I was a kid, I was shy," Ira Glasser, the longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union, told a Canton, Massachusetts, audience last week. It seemed hard to...
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Estrich: House could Cuomo be so out of touch?Aug 20, 2021 1:00 am - By Susan Estrich According to The New York Times, the soon-to-be former governor of New York is sitting on $18 million in campaign cash - with nothing to run for, a fir...
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Republican governors, school districts battle over mask mandatesAug 20, 2021 1:00 am - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Millions of students in Florida, Texas and Arizona are now required to wear masks in class as school boards in mostly Democratic areas have defie...
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Why 2020 was uniqueAug 19, 2021 1:00 am - There's a fascinating question in a new Fox News poll that suggests the political dynamics at work in 2022 and 2024 will be far different from 2020. If that is the case,...
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The United Federal Administrative Units of America?Aug 17, 2021 1:00 am - Warnings that state and local governments faced a fiscal calamity were predictably plentiful when it became clear in early 2020 that COVID-19 would cause major social an...
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Contact with the West has influenced Afghanistan - but will it be enough?Aug 17, 2021 1:00 am - President Bush and particularly Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were adamant that we would not get involved in nation building in Afghanistan - and then we did. Presid...
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'They needed to be there,' says widow who focuses on the good of husband's Afghanistan serviceAug 17, 2021 1:00 am - America is leaving Afghanistan, but a part of Arlington Heights widow Katie Stack can never leave that war-torn nation. "If I look at it as my husband's sacrifice was fo...
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Illinois' congressional map drawing does not need to be contentiousAug 16, 2021 1:00 am - The Census Bureau has released detailed census data that will permit every state to redraw their congressional maps. Illinois' decrease in population since 2010 means th...
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California liberals flunking first test of governmentAug 15, 2021 1:00 am - Will Gov. Gavin Newsom be the second Democratic California governor to be recalled and removed from office in this (or the last) century? Polls suggest that's one possib...