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On Wednesday morning, Washington rightly fretted over the fate of a Republican congressman and three others felled by a gunman's fire in suburban Alexandria, Va., as they practiced for a charity baseball game.
June 15, 2017
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John L. Micek
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The law may not be an ass, as Charles Dickens put it, but it often moves as slowly as one.
June 14, 2017
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Peter Roff
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Millions of Americans watched transfixed as James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, and no, that's not an oxymoron. To say the reaction was mixed is like intimating that pillowcases stuffed with live eels are not conducive to long naps.
June 14, 2017
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Will Durst
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The jury is deliberating, and all we know at this point is that no one will be happy when the verdict is returned in Bill Cosby's indecent assault trial.
June 13, 2017
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Christine Flowers
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I learned how to keep golf balls from bashing me in my shins.
June 13, 2017
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Tom Purcell
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While using social media to research this Father's Day column, I came across two types of people.
June 12, 2017
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Danny Tyree
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The recently released U.S. Census Bureau data on 2016 population growth in cities and their outlying areas arrives at one inescapable conclusion: suburban communities which once offered relief from overcrowded urban areas are rapidly growing. And with that growth comes more urban sprawl. Larger swaths of wide open spaces will vanish as residential and commercial development plow under agricultural land and environmental habitats. Queens College demographer Andy Beveridge calls the phenomena "boomburbs."
June 10, 2017
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Joe Guzzardi
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"I may have to do WHAT to receive my high school diploma?"
June 10, 2017
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Tom Purcell
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President Donald Trump possesses a style described by friends as virile and intuitive, and by foes as oafish and oblivious. Some see him as a breath of fresh air, with a disarming directness, while others consider him a blustering bully with the grace of a pile of crumbling cement blocks cascading off a flatbed truck. Passionate versus fool-hardy. Eager slash hasty. Swift or rash.
June 08, 2017
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Will Durst
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When he was out on the campaign trail last year, candidate Donald Trump promised to appoint conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices who'd adhere to a strict reading of the U.S. Constitution and return law-and-order to the land.
June 08, 2017
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John L. Micek
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In less than a year, I have attended four weddings.
June 07, 2017
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Dale
Hogg
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Until very recently, medical tourism was traveling from your home to find less expensive medical care, usually overseas. Medical tourists were leaving the warm embrace of the American Medical Association and the FDA to journey far from home. There were three motivations: Elective plastic surgery not covered by insurance, wanting to try an experimental procedure not covered or getting surgery done without benefit of any insurance at all.
June 07, 2017
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Michael Shannon
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Michelle Obama was a very good first lady. To some, she was one of the best. She should be remembered fondly, even by those who did not vote for her husband.
June 07, 2017
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Christine Flowers
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California's Senate President Kevin de León is playing a dangerous game of chicken with President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the state's criminal aliens' sanctuary status.
June 06, 2017
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Joe Guzzardi
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It's the election that never ends.
June 06, 2017
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Michael Reagan
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