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Speech never equals violence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RYAN J. RUSAK Tribune News Service 
Mar 29, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The slap seen ’round the world from Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony holds an important lesson on free speech. That was no dou...
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Go ahead, confirm Jackson
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JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Mar 29, 2022
Maybe I’ve been fooled, but my inclination is to say confirm her. Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice because, during Senate hear...
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Shoddy treatment of Jackson
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 27, 2022
Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee worked overtime to trip up Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson or capture a gotcha moment...
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Why a free press matters
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 25, 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine is also a war on truth and the journalists who report it. This should alarm freedom-loving people everywhere. In Ukraine, four...
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Why must it be Trump?
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RICH LOWRY 
Mar 25, 2022
An endorsement from Donald Trump, as Alabama congressman Mo Brooks has learned to his chagrin, is no guarantee against future harsh denunciation. Trum...
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Running for office in post-truth America
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GENE LYONS 
Mar 24, 2022
A Facebook item posted the other day by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, onetime Trump administration minister of disinformation and current Arkansas gubernato...
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HOF, respect Dolly’s wishes
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 23, 2022
Like all cultural institutions, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been under pressure to diversify its honorees, given the preponderance of old white g...
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Long inflation and its political consequences
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BYRON YORK 
Mar 23, 2022
While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Mo...
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Putin exposed as pitiful
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 22, 2022
We always knew that Vladimir Putin was evil. He ordered the murders of dissidents and journalists in Russia, and he caused countless other deaths in C...
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Vladimir Putin and the fragility of order
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 22, 2022
An invading army surrounds a European city, cuts off its supplies, bombards it, and demands surrender. Is it 1346? 1631? 1870? 1941? Or 2022? The answ...
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Still doing business in Russia
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 21, 2022
The military options for the U.S. and NATO in Ukraine are complicated. But the economic options aren’t: All global companies should pull out of Russia...
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An economist who was right about the pandemic
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SAL RODRIGUEZ Los Angeles Daily News 
Mar 21, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — “One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost,” wrote the great libertarian economist Walter E. Willi...
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Ukraine’s resistance offers a useful lesson to Taiwan
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine has taught the world’s autocrats some useful lessons: Invasions may be harder than they look. It’s unwise to go t...
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Quit messing with our clocks
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 20, 2022
As soon as the U.S. Senate passed a surprise bill declaring that daylight saving time would be in operation all year, lobbyists for early birds leapt ...
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Biden can help fight inflation
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Mar 20, 2022
With U.S. inflation standing at a 40-year high of 7.9%, the Federal Reserve has finally begun to tighten monetary policy, with a small initial increas...
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Standing for values instead of personalities
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Mar 18, 2022
William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What’s in a name? That which we call ...
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