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What are we shooting down every day?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 13, 2023
In 1957, during the frosty years of the Cold War, Ike and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker established the North American Air Defense Command ...
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Balloon makes US-China relations harder to manage
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS 
Feb 13, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its jo...
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We shouldn’t cut off Ukraine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 10, 2023
More and more Republicans are beginning to see the wisdom of John Lennon, and think we need to give peace a chance in Ukraine. Donald Trump is offerin...
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Bird flu outbreak is a wake-up call for agriculture
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Feb 09, 2023
Perhaps we can blame COVID fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to spread th...
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GOP must winnow ’24 primary field
Nation World, Opinion
Feb 07, 2023
Nikki Haley has been thinking of running for president and, reportedly, could be making an announcement quite soon. Larry Hogan has also been mulling ...
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No, slavery didn’t create capitalism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 07, 2023
A recent episode of a Disney+ cartoon has woke kids performing a skit around the theme: “Slaves built this country.” The installment of “The Proud Fam...
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Faith in government is flagging again
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 06, 2023
The nine most terrifying words in the English language,” Ronald Reagan said, are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” But that was an awf...
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Trump’s futile attack on DeSantis
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 03, 2023
Donald Trump hasn’t been impressing anyone with his political acuity lately, but at least he is fully aware of one of his own vulnerabilities. His ear...
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Biden administration on thin ice
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JOE BETTENFELD Boston Herald 
Feb 03, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — Reports that Labor Secretary and former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is a finalist for the head of the National Hockey League players’ unio...
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Biden must work with the House GOP
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 02, 2023
Kevin McCarthy is House speaker. That’s the shorthand routinely use to describe the California Republican’s political position. And though it’s absolu...
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When government policy hits home — and your wallet
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
E.J. ANTONI - Tribune News Service 
Feb 02, 2023
If you think public policy doesn’t really affect you or your family, take a quick glance at your retirement account — but you may want to sit down fir...
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Will court defend the right of free speech?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Feb 01, 2023
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — At first glance, Priscilla Villarreal is not a particularly empathetic figure. Not to most conservatives, anyway. The tattoo...
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The Joe-Hunter Biden scandal convergence
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
BYRON YORK 
Feb 01, 2023
Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal ...
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Trump’s return to social media
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 31, 2023
Is it possible to argue that suspending Donald Trump from various social media sites after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on our nation’s Capitol was the ri...
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Memphis is not about racism
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 31, 2023
There’s nothing white supremacy can’t do. It is supposedly so pervasive and powerful that it can cause Black men to sign up to serve as police officer...
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Evidence mounting that COVID is bad for the brain
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
FAYE FLAM - Tribune News Service 
Jan 30, 2023
The possibility that a COVID infection could damage your brain is terrifying. Scientists have established that long COVID often manifests itself with ...
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