Commentary

If economy is so great, why are evictions soaring?
Commentary, Nation World
LZ GRANDERSON Los Angeles Times 
Feb 13, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — There is another migrant crisis brewing. Unlike the one at the southern border, this one will be all over the country. A recent Ha...
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Ala. execution sets dangerous precedent
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 11, 2024
On Jan. 25, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth “Kenny” Smith using a new, untested method: nitrogen gas. It was a first such execution in the Unite...
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Chicago schools out $23M in electronics
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 11, 2024
Tens of thousands of laptops and iPads were lost or stolen from Chicago Public Schools in the 2021-22 school year, amounting to $23 million in missing...
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How to solve our soaring homelessness problem
Commentary, Nation World
RACHEL SHEFFIELD The Heritage Foundation 
Feb 11, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Homelessness set two records in 2023. The increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023 was the largest ever recorded since the go...
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Yes, we ‘hate the game’
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 10, 2024
Most NFL fans, no matter how hardcore they are for their own team, find a rooting interest for the Super Bowl — that’s part of what makes SB Sunday su...
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Hamas not interested in diplomacy
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 09, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu might have been too kind this week when he called Hamas’ response to a cease-fire proposal brokered by Qatar “delusional.” “There i...
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Should you sleep with your pet?
Commentary, Nation World
ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Feb 09, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Do you sleep with animals? No, I don’t mean people who, you know, do wild and crazy things in bed. I am talking about actual anima...
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What’s the border alternative?
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 08, 2024
The Senate immigration compromise crumbled away just days after its birth. Many conservatives said it doesn’t go far enough to stem border chaos, whil...
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Biden, the Senate and the border fiasco
Commentary, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Feb 08, 2024
Joe Biden is supposed to know something about legislating. After all, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate. He must have learned something in those de...
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NYC to give migrants prepaid debit cards?
Commentary, New York
Feb 08, 2024
New York City will provide migrants with $53 million worth of prepaid debit cards under a controversial new program that critics say will draw more as...
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Court takes aim at politics of cruelty
Commentary, Nation World
FRANCIS WILKINSON Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
Feb 07, 2024
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...
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Refugees cost $20B in two years
Commentary, Nation World
Feb 07, 2024
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $20 billion over the last two years on “refugee and entrant assistance” for those entering the countr...
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Why doesn’t South Carolina love Nikki Haley?
Commentary, Nation World
JILL LAWRENCE Los Angeles Times 
Feb 07, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Nikki Haley titled her 2022 book after the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s assertion that “If you want something s...
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