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Carter, Biden and revisionist presidential history
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Jan 10, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — For my entire career, it's seemed, theRepublican Partyhas run againstJimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days inTexasbeginning mi...
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They’re all ‘flip-floppers’
Commentary, Nation World
CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Aug 28, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — When Kamala Harris first sought the presidency in 2019, she ‘leaned left, backing Medicare for all, urging a ban on the oil recover...
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Supreme Court decision makes mockery of July 4th
Commentary, Nation World
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Jul 04, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Perhaps on the Fourth of July, the Alitos flew the American flag properly, not upside down, at their Virginia or New Jersey homes. ...
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GOP can look back to 1968 for lessons on 2024
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DAVID M. SHRIBMAN 
Dec 11, 2022
Parties fall apart; the center cannot hold. (We’ve sure seen that.) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the political world. (Have a look at the morning paper...
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Bad economic news, 1970s-style
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
May 01, 2022
U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...
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Dole had respect for rivals
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
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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Trump’s real reason for running again for president
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Oct 26, 2021
Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecut...
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Cuomo and his Nixon moment
Local Columnists, New York
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Aug 06, 2021
NEW YORK — When President Richard Nixon was neck deep in the Watergate scandal and faced impeachment in the House of Representatives and a trial in th...
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Trump shamefully followed Obama in spying
Local Columnists, Nation World
TOM WROBLESKI Tribune News Service 
Jun 16, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — The president of the United States shouldn’t spy on American citizens, journalists or lawmakers in order to track down news leaks. Is...
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Woodward got his scoop (copy)
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
GENE LYONS 
Sep 21, 2020
So Bob Woodward went out and found the “named source” Trumpists were clamoring for: Boss Trump himself. Following a bitter dispute over an anonymously...
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The Two-Minutes Hate, 2020 Edition
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
GENE LYONS 
Jul 31, 2020
"Down with the Wall of Moms!" "Death to the Leaf-Blower Dads!" In George Orwell's classic novel "1984," members of the Outer Party stood in front of t...
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Should the protests continue?
Local Columnists, Nation World
STEVEN ROBERTS 
Jul 30, 2020
If the protesters swarming the streets of Portland, Oregon, and other cities really want to defeat President Trump, they might want to consider this s...
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