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Yes to crack pipes, no to food
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 20, 2022
“Boston logic” is a suitable addition to the universe of oxymorons such as “jumbo shrimp.” How else would one describe the thought process that decree...
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How worried should we be about new COVID variants?
Opinion, Сolumns
LISA JARVIS - Tribune News Service 
Oct 20, 2022
Some rather alarming headlines recently circulated about the newest members of the omicron family. “Nightmare COVID variant,” read one. “The most immu...
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Iran regime on borrowed time
Opinion, Сolumns
James Jay Carafano 
Oct 20, 2022
Despite weeks of brutal repression, ordinary Iranians of all ages and all sections of society, and from all regions, continue their mass protests, cal...
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Biden rule would harm gig workers
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 19, 2022
Inflation not seen in 40 years. Higher interest rates. Unemployment rising. A recession getting worse every day. One would have thought the White Hous...
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Other Voices: Know your limits
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 19, 2022
A U.S. senator votes on legislation at the federal level and has no vote on matters at the state level. A U.S. senator has one vote out of 100 and wou...
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Who’s more in lockstep, GOP or Democrats?
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Oct 19, 2022
There was an extraordinary Senate debate this week in Orem, Utah, between Sen. Mike Lee and challenger Evan McMullin. It was extraordinary in part bec...
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A job doesn’t mean what it once did
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 18, 2022
”You can’t quiet fire me; I’ve already quiet quit!” It’s entirely likely that an astonished employer will hear something like that one day soon enough...
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Did the Jan. 6 committee make a difference?
Opinion, Сolumns
PAIGE MASTEN Tribune News Service 
Oct 18, 2022
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — The biggest issue in the 2022 election might be the fact that we haven’t moved on from the last one. We’re still living in the...
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Congress should act on DACA
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 18, 2022
Unconstitutional acts don’t become constitutional because you like the results. That’s why Congress, not the president, needs to give legal status to ...
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Banks can’t deprive people of their own money
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY 
Oct 17, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — On Oct. 3 at 1:22 a.m., PayPal posted a new “Acceptable Use Policy” on its website. In the first paragraph of the seven-page PDF d...
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Require hearings to ban books
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 17, 2022
Pennsylvania school districts have banned at least 459 books this school year, more than districts in every state other than Texas and Florida, accord...
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Timing is everything in politics
Opinion, Сolumns
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Oct 16, 2022
With the polls in many key midterm races agonizingly close, victory or defeat in November will hinge largely on a single question: are Americans merel...
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UN’s useless Human Rights Council
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 14, 2022
If pathological optimists still think the UN Human Rights Council cares about human rights, they might want to note events last week. A motion was mad...
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Extend marijuana pardon deadline
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 14, 2022
President Joe Biden on Thursday pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession by the federal government, restoring their full politic...
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As local violence goes, so goes the nation
Opinion, Сolumns
GENE LYONS 
Oct 14, 2022
A friend down at the dog park asked about my wife the other day. She and her girlfriend had taken a long weekend trip to visit a former roommate. My f...
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