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No surprise Biden is pushing a progressive agenda
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
May 18, 2021
President Joe Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abrupt...
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Dems’ filibuster hypocrisy
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Mar 25, 2021
On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...
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Democrats would regret nuking the filibuster
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 23, 2021
There’s nothing that ails Joe Biden’s agenda, we are supposed to believe, that ending the filibuster wouldn’t fix. President Joe Biden showed a little...
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How will history judge GOP senators?
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 16, 2021
It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, e...
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Biden an insider? Good
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jan 21, 2021
Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in the White House Wednesday thanks to two unappreciated assets: He is 78 years old, and he has been a politician for more...
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Trump’s disgusting coda
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 09, 2021
There’s a reason we expect presidents of the United States to say that they support the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump has never committed t...
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Can Joe Biden negotiate us to a better America?
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Jan 04, 2021
During the Democratic presidential primary, nothing seemed to haunt Joe Biden more than the charge of how totally, completely racist it was for him as...
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Relief squandered on bonuses
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 30, 2020
Before leaving the Capitol until after the election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shamefully spent weeks ramming through Supreme Court Justi...
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Focus on small business
Opinion, Сolumns
WALT ROWEN, Special to The Era 
Oct 20, 2020
The slow pace of bureaucracy is a running joke in America. It’s surprising, then, how quickly the Senate has advanced the confirmation hearings for Pr...
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US needs bold jobs program, not patchwork bailout
Opinion, Сolumns
NIR KAISSAR and TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Tribune News Service 
Jul 27, 2020
Millions are unemployed, public budgets are falling apart, the economy is struggling, and the COVID-19 epidemic is raging anew — and most of the $2.7 ...
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The Trump toxicity
Letters to Editor
Jan 14, 2020
It is going to take more than an act of Congress to stop President Donald Trump from doing exactly what he wants to do. He has no respect for the law....
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Roy Moore is pure Steve Bannon
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Nov 21, 2017
Roy Moore is the Steve Bannon project in a nutshell. For the former Trump operative, the Alabama Senate candidate's tattered credibility is a feature,...
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Thank God for Harry Reid
Opinion, Сolumns
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 
Feb 03, 2017
WASHINGTON — There are many people to thank for the coming accession of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump for winning the election. Hill...
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