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Americans aren’t in party mood (politically speaking)
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jan 27, 2022
American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. T...
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Biden stays the disastrous course
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BYRON YORK 
Jan 27, 2022
The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...
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Members of Congress shouldn’t play stocks
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Jan 26, 2022
Ballotpedia tracks what it calls a “personal gain index” showing how much each member of Congress’ personal wealth has changed while in office. For th...
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Republicans should rethink idea-free campaigns
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RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jan 25, 2022
Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...
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Joe Biden shouldn’t panic
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JONATHAN BERSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 25, 2022
The New York Times reports that President Joe Biden: “Will retreat from the tangle of day-to-day negotiations with members of his own party that have ...
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The UN combats Holocaust denial
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 24, 2022
Israel became the United Nations’ 59th member on May 11, 1949. In the seven decades since, the General Assembly, now numbering 193 countries, has pass...
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Lia Thomas should give up competing
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GENE LYONS 
Jan 24, 2022
I don’t know about you, but both as a participant and a spectator, I have always looked to sports as a refuge. A refuge from what? Well, what have you...
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Could DeSantis beat Trump?
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 22, 2022
It was only a matter of time before Ron DeSantis’ rising star ran into the unmovable object of Donald Trump’s will to continue to dominate the GOP. A ...
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Joe Biden not stepping up
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jan 21, 2022
The Hydra is an ancient Greek mythical beast, mentioned in the tales of Hercules, that was said to have the body of a dragon with many heads, two arms...
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GOP, Dems capable of blowing it in November
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BYRON YORK 
Jan 20, 2022
Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It’s true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office — how they will fix...
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Virginia’s Gov. Youngkin is right on masks
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 19, 2022
Glenn Youngkin promised to be on the side of parents as Virginia governor, and on his first day in office, he delivered. The Republican issued an exec...
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A coronavirus double fault
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Jan 19, 2022
Top-ranked tennis star Novak Djokovic finally got his comeuppance for reckless behavior unbecoming of a global sports ambassador. Australia’s governme...
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Is America bound for a second civil war?
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JOHN M. CRISP Tribune News Service 
Jan 19, 2022
A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...
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Pandemic life doesn’t have to be that way (copy)
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requi...
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Start over on voting rights, election security
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 18, 2022
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...
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