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Rock music’s famous white men should speak up
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LZ GRANDERSON Los Angeles Times 
Sep 21, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When Tina Turner died in May, the podcast “Rolling Stone Music Now” paid tribute, calling her “one of the greatest rock and soul s...
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The electric car sham
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RICH LOWRY 
Sep 15, 2023
Joe Biden has seen the future, and it is electric cars. Lots of electric cars. Electric cars — or else. Donald Trump has seen the future, and it is a ...
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For the planet or for your pocketbook?
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Los Angeles Times 
Sep 14, 2023
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I realized I had a problem with internet shopping the day my 13-year-old niece looked at the packing slip in a box that had just a...
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Climate change panic is not constructive
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BJORN LOMBORG 
Sep 14, 2023
As surely as temperatures rise during the summer, climate alarmism serves up more stories of life-threatening heat domes, apocalyptic fires and biblic...
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Have Boomer skills outlived their usefulness?
Commentary, Daily Headlines, Nation World
JAMES LILEKS Star Tribune 
Sep 13, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — Sometimes you see a link to an article headlined “50 things Boomers Did That Are Useless Now,” and you cannot resist. You know you...
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Meet the new Tucker Carlson
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JACKIE CALMES 
Jun 29, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Jesse Watters didn’t eat the pizza Tuesday night. Was Watters, the 44-year-old lightweight named a day earlier to replace Tucker Ca...
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One thing Republicans agree on
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BYRON YORK 
Jun 28, 2023
It’s been nearly three weeks since former President Donald Trump announced that he had been indicted in the classified documents investigation. On Jun...
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Dream-hacking for more creativity
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
F.D. FLAM 
Jun 21, 2023
In our competitive society, some consider it a badge of honor to get only four or five hours of sleep a night, or pull all-nighters in the service of ...
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Platforms should pay for news
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 07, 2023
Social media platforms have come of age posting news that others produce, without paying for it. When pressed for payments by news organizations that ...
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A start on immigration reform
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
May 30, 2023
As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: imm...
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First-person sources can re-humanize history
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
HANS ZEIGER 
May 30, 2023
The field of American history is in crisis. Earlier this month, the Department of Education released troubling data indicating that only 13% of eighth...
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Republicans are crowding the 2024 race
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DOYLE McMANUS 
May 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. R...
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Let grocery stores in New York sell wine
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
May 25, 2023
With the State Legislature nearing the end of this year’s session, the liquor-store lobby is working feverishly to stifle a bill to let supermarkets a...
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Green projects hit Iron Wall
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JAMES E. HANLEY 
May 25, 2023
Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless t...
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