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Another bedrock of conventional wisdom has been overturned. During the Trump administration it is okay to shoot the messenger.
January 18, 2017
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Michael Shannon
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Get this: The share of millennials who own a home has fallen to a 30-year low.
January 18, 2017
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Tom Purcell
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This past weekend was a wake up call for many of us. No internet, no land line, no electricity. Going without electricity, even for a day, once again teaches us how easy we have it.
January 18, 2017
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Judi Tabler
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I don't usually live my days according to a particular theme. No planning goes into them, unless I'm celebrating a birthday or some other exceptional event. But every now and then, in a sort of strange serendipity, the day comes together around people, places and ideas that have a strange symbiosis. So it was last Tuesday.
January 17, 2017
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Christine Flowers
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Just nine days before becoming Leader of the Free World, President-elect Donald Trump wasn't talking about economic policy. He wasn't talking about global security or how he plans to improve the welfare of nearly 319 million Americans.
January 17, 2017
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John L. Micek
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The Obamas have said their goodbyes to America.
January 16, 2017
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Michael Reagan
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During Wednesday's choleric press conference, Donald Trump compared the intelligence community to the Nazis. Not a good idea.
January 16, 2017
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Dick Polman
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The beginning of the Obama Administration was marked by a trillion dollar experiment called economic stimulus. All we really have to show for it is a lesson learned in crony capitalism. It wasn't the jobs or projects that were shovel ready as promised. It was the insiders, who benefited financially from their political contacts.
January 14, 2017
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Peter Roff
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Columnists
Let's consider what former Texas Gov. Rick Perry brings to the table as a member of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet and as the president's designee as Secretary of Energy:
January 14, 2017
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Matt Mackowiak
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Columnists
Apparently, we now live in a country where you can walk into an FBI office, admit to being an ISIS terrorist and you aren't taken seriously, but if you make a small rounding error on your tax return, rest assured, the IRS will come calling.
January 12, 2017
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Susan Stamper Brown
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It seems there's a shortage of the old Hollywood Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland "Hey, kids - let's put on a show!" exuberance.
January 12, 2017
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Danny Tyree
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I was at a Phoenix Suns basketball game in October when the PA announcer asked for a round of applause for the city's new police chief. Thousands of us scanned the arena, wondering where he might be seated.
January 11, 2017
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Peter Funt
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Acclaimed actor Meryl Streep lit up social media during Sunday's Golden Globe awards in an explicitly political speech, where she harshly criticized President-elect Donald Trump without ever mentioning him by name.
January 11, 2017
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John L. Micek
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Last week, as the mainstream media continued to obsess over the CIA's evidence-free claim that the Russians hacked the presidential election, President Obama quietly sent 300 U.S. Marines back into Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
January 10, 2017
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Ron Paul
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Get this: The U.S. Treasury says that America's debt grew by another trillion dollars in 2016.
January 10, 2017
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Tom Purcell
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