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Why GOP is reluctant to condemn political violence
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jun 23, 2021
The Republican Party has a problem with political violence: It's not sure whether it's for it or against it. In the first days after a mob loyal to fo...
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Democrats trapped in progressive echo chamber
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jun 17, 2021
The reason Democrats in Washington are increasingly frustrated is because their legislative ambitions far outstrip their congressional majorities. The...
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The smear campaign against Joe Manchin
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 09, 2021
Joe Manchin is being pilloried for the offense of being consistent on the filibuster. Back in 2017, when Senate Democrats were desperate to stop Donal...
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Are vaccine rewards a good idea?
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS, Tribune News Services 
Jun 05, 2021
At first, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 seemed like enough of a reward. You got the satisfaction of protecting your health and that of the peopl...
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In Texas, Democrats thwart will of majority
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Jun 04, 2021
Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...
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Link minimum wage to cost of living
Local Columnists, New York
Jun 04, 2021
It has been more than a decade since Congress last raised the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour and will remain so after the Senate in Mar...
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The Texas voting lie
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Jun 03, 2021
The Democratic opposition to legislative minorities using whatever leverage they have to block legislation is highly situational. In Washington, D.C.,...
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Perfected politics of ‘No!’
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 29, 2021
Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...
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Approve Jan. 6 commission
Local Columnists, Nation World
May 28, 2021
The Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was one of the darkest days in the country’s history, when democracy was threatened by its citizens. We ca...
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Biden deals with ‘Illusionist Caucus’
Local Columnists, Nation World
STEVEN V. ROBERTS 
May 28, 2021
The political world has been focusing on the serious splits in Republican ranks — and rightly so. Purging party members who won’t worship before the a...
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GOP’s new McCarthyism
Local Columnists, Nation World
ROBERT A. GEORGE Tribune News Service 
May 27, 2021
Forgive Americans if they no longer remember that the elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. Elephants are supposed to never forget, yet Repu...
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McCarthy, McConnell want you to forget about Jan. 6
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 25, 2021
It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...
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The GOP future is bright
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
May 24, 2021
Republicans have had a brutal news cycle over the past month, between the ouster of Liz Cheney from leadership and the intraparty jousting over a Jan....
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Trump, allies not done
Local Columnists, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 22, 2021
Donald Trump’s campaign to steal the 2020 election after clearly losing at the ballot box failed for a couple of reasons. His baseless claims of fraud...
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