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November's biggest loser might not be Donald Trump ---- even if he gets clobbered at the polls. The person with the most to lose is Sean Hannity, the Fox News Channel host, who isn't just hitching his wagon to Trump's campaign, he's almost single-handily building the wagon on his nightly show.
August 24, 2016
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Peter Funt
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The recent flooding in Baton Rouge is a study in media bias if you compare it to media coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
August 24, 2016
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Susan Stamper Brown
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Get this: According to The New York Times, some wives are threatening to divorce their husbands if the fellows vote for Donald Trump.
August 23, 2016
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Tom Purcell
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Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key infrastructure. The Russian military is holding exercises in Crimea and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a visit to the peninsula at the end of the week.
August 23, 2016
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Ron Paul
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If you read Superman comics as a kid, you're probably familiar with Bizarro World - the planet where everything is the opposite of life on Earth. I bring this up because it's clear Donald Trump is running for president of Bizarro World.
August 22, 2016
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Dick Polman
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On the whole, I'm an imperfect Catholic, but there is one particular area of my Christian identity in which I excel: guilt.
August 22, 2016
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Christine Flowers
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Is it good to be patriotic?
August 20, 2016
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Joseph Cotto
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For all the hand-wringing about the threat to liberty and constitutional government posed by the major party presidential candidates, there is little discussion of how this threat is due to the political class's long history of supporting expanded presidential power. There is also little talk of how the imperial presidency is just as much a creation of Congress as it is of power-hungry presidents.
August 20, 2016
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Ron Paul
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We've got some major problems, folks! I am exaggerating of course, but sometimes I need to gripe a bit. And besides, I do perceive problems according to others' criteria.
August 18, 2016
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Tribune Staff
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Columnists
Apparently, the Democratic Party's latest strategy to win the White House in 2016 is "Let's pretend to be religious."
August 18, 2016
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Susan Stamper Brown
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Our quadrennial presidential sweepstakes regularly provides textbook studies in contrast. And 2016 raises the bar in disparity. Red and blue. Left and right. Hot and cold. Up and down. Good and bad. Boy and girl. Pro and con. Loud and soft. Rain or shine. Fish and fowl. Dumb and dumber.
August 18, 2016
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Will Durst
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Like you, I sift through an awful lot of junk email each morning, but every once in a while there's a piece of very important business tucked among the pitches for foreign cruises and erectile dysfunction medication.
August 17, 2016
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Peter Funt
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Columnists
Fewer Americans are watching the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro than they did prior Games. I offer a solution.
August 17, 2016
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Tom Purcell
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The Great American Trump Freakout is just getting started, in which anything Trump says that can be misinterpreted as evil will be.
August 16, 2016
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Rick Jensen
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I'm morbidly fascinated by the rhetorical mud being slung between Democrats and Republicans these days. How exhilarating to hear Hillary Clinton labeled "unstable" by Donald Trump, who is himself called "bat(bleep)-crazy" by a fellow billionaire and Hillaryite, Mark Cuban.
August 16, 2016
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Christine Flowers
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