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King’s dream is quest for unity
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 18, 2022
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Ask most people to name when those words were spoken, and they may say the De...
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Joe Biden disgraces himself
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 15, 2022
Well, it looks like we’re headed for autocracy, then. In his wisdom, Joe Biden decided to declare in his Georgia voting speech that there’s a crisis i...
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Restore the filibuster requirements
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Jan 14, 2022
Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...
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GOP pushes back on Democratic ‘big lie’
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BYRON YORK 
Jan 13, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...
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Biden must move on climate
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 13, 2022
As life returned somewhat to normal last year after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, America’s briefly reduced greenhouse gas emissions have started cl...
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The idiocy of vaccine mandates for kids
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 12, 2022
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...
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Protect privacy in vehicles
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 12, 2022
The ever-increasing connectivity between phones and the complex infotainment systems in automobiles may be putting our civil liberties at risk. Techno...
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Biden chose to divide
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 08, 2022
The only legitimate reason to stage an official anniversary commemoration of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots would be to issue a call to unity and urge the n...
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Civil war over Trump? Not going to happen
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GENE LYONS 
Jan 07, 2022
When it comes to prognostication, my favorite philosopher has always been the eminent Lawrence Peter Berra. “It’s tough to make predictions,” Yogi fam...
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GOP primaries begin test of Trump’s influence
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JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 07, 2022
It’s an election year — and Americans will be voting sooner than many people may realize. The first primary election is in Texas on March 1, fewer tha...
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Doing business in China
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 07, 2022
Tesla is heralded for its innovative push toward electrifying cars — it’s the future the country and the world need. But it’s also true that Tesla’s r...
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Falling faith in elections is not new
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BYRON YORK 
Jan 06, 2022
For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...
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Yes, Jan. 6 was a big deal
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LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Jan 06, 2022
Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...
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Vaccine-hesitant people can still change their minds
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DR. PRABHAVA BAGLA Tribune News Service 
Jan 05, 2022
Last month, I saw an elderly patient with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was admitted to the hospital with a bone stuck in his t...
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Schumer’s Jan. 6 cynicism
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 05, 2022
On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the U.S. Capitol and rampaged for hours before order was restored...
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The great inflation debates
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RAMESH PONNURU Tribune News Service 
Jan 04, 2022
Prices have been increasing at the fastest rate in decades, but we haven’t been having a debate about inflation. We’ve been having five. We might do a...
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Potential wonders of the Webb
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 04, 2022
Was the (potentially) amazing James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on Christmas of all days to put it more in the public eye — or le...
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