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The true cost of Biden and Democrats’ agenda
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Dec 16, 2021
President Joe Biden and Capitol Hill Democrats are racing to pass their massive social spending bill, known as Build Back Better, before Christmas. Ma...
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Media histrionics vs. reality
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GENE LYONS 
Dec 16, 2021
Only last week, we learned that one Donald J. Trump was, in effect, the Typhoid Mary of the COVID-19 epidemic during the 2020 campaign. What’s more, u...
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Who’s running your state’s elections?
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 14, 2021
Former President Donald Trump, in exile at Mar-a-Lago, isn’t acting much like a retiree. A week ago, he announced that his proposed media venture, Tru...
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Drop far-left term ‘Latinx’
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 14, 2021
The difference between genius and stupidity, someone once said, is that genius has its limits. That’s the message for the Democratic party, which incr...
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Pushing back against China’s control of athletes
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 13, 2021
In 1936, human rights advocates pushed for a boycott of the “Nazi Olympics,” two years after Adolf Hitler seized power and began persecuting Jews. Som...
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Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be a right-wing hero
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RICH LOWRY 
Dec 11, 2021
No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...
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Foundation spending in politics, journalism poses risks
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SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Dec 10, 2021
Politicians sometimes compare money to water. No matter how hard anyone might try to keep it out, it finds a way to get in. Lately it has become clear...
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Dole had respect for rivals
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CARL P. LEUBSDORF Tribune News Service 
Dec 09, 2021
Bob Dole first emerged as a national figure in the early 1970s, defending President Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policies and excoriating such Democratic o...
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On youth and politics
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Dec 09, 2021
The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises...
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Russia testing West’s resolve
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 08, 2021
Vladimir Putin wants the world to forget what happened in 2014. That’s the year he amassed troops at the Ukraine border to assist Russian-backed separ...
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The IOC is a craven handmaid of Beijing
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RICH LOWRY 
Dec 08, 2021
It should be a rule of thumb that the Olympic Games shouldn’t be held in countries that operate concentration camps. If this strikes you as an unreaso...
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Change more than just the words
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MIKE ERVIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 08, 2021
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, is setting out to remove the word “squaw” from the names of all federal lands. On Nov. 19, she issued...
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Don’t lose more holidays to COVID panic
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Two weeks ago, I attended the funeral of a dear lady who had befriended me when I first arrived in Fort Worth eight years ago. She was nearly 81 when ...
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Nobody said nuclear deal with Iran would be easy
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 07, 2021
Diplomats from Iran, the United States and five other powers gathered in Vienna last week to try to revive President Barack Obama’s 2015 deal limiting...
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School shooting accountability
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 07, 2021
Prosecutors in the Michigan school shooting by a 15-year-old student that left four dead also have filed manslaughter charges against the shooter’s pa...
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Light in the darkness
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Dec 06, 2021
There was a prevailing feeling of optimism as I stood outside the Supreme Court with the sun warming us on a brisk late fall day as oral arguments in ...
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