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Harrop: China’s dominance in chips, batteries should worry us
President Biden is right to call for ‘extreme competition’ to counter China’s technology maneuvers.
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Schwab: Who knew voting, ‘rank’ democracy were such threats?
Let a Senate majority confirm a justice? Assure voting rights? And respect elections? Heavens, no!
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Saunders: Shouldn’t we prosecute rioters, regardless of date?
Whether it’s Jan. 6 or June 2020, the violent acts of rioters should see the same prosecution.
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Harrop: Right’s real problem with Fauci is his dignity
When Trump belittled Fauci, the doctor cooly kept to the science and refused to show fear.
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Harrop: Why should renting seem less desirable than owning?
For many renting offers fewer headaches and more mobility. But it’s no less expensive than owning a home.
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Saunders: Convicted murderer’s claims work onlly on gullible
A California man on death row insisted DNA testing would clear him, until it put him at the…
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Schwab: Are some conservatives hard-wired to believe big lies
And if so, what’s the use of bipartisanship and what hope can we have for the nation’s democracy?
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Harrop: Running out of empathy for those refusing vaccine
Those refusing vaccines — and the officials who pander to them — increasingly are hurting themselves.
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Burke: What Fred Flintstone has in common with QAnon
Similar percentages believe man and dinosaurs coexisted and QAnon conspiracies.
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Schwab: Grab a No. 2 pencil for your Democracy 101 final exam
Links to answers are provided, but for your benefit, do your own work. Tests are graded on a…
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Harrop: No, 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe shouldn’t moon museum
Recreating a famous movie scene, the statue’s racty depiction doesn’t fit Palm Springs’ cultural site.
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Biden: For an EV future, Biden must commit to U.S. mining now
Making electric vehicles as green as possible means mining lithium here in the United States.
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Schwab: Yes, Dems have racist past, but what’s in GOP’s eye?
The GOP county chairman’s history of the Democratic Party skips over the events of several recent decades.
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Harrop: Democrats back law and order; hiding that hurts them
Biden and most Democrats oppose calls to ‘defund the police’ and ‘abolish ICE,’ yet they are tagged as…
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Saunders: Was purpose covid prevention or virtue signaling?
All the finger-pointing and shaming of red states during the pandemic is looking more like overkill.
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Burke: We’re so smart, why do some deny what they’ve seen?
We can fly a helicopter on Mars, yet one party insists that tourists stormed the Capitol on Jan.…
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Harrop: Democrats could buck trend of losing midterm seats
History says Democrats could lose the House in 2022; but history hasn’t figured on the state of the…
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Schwab: If we can’t agree on basic facts, is there hope?
Democracy may not survive if bogus audits and attempts to suppress voting are allowed to succeed.
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Harrop: 2020, in terms of stats, was the year of the asterisk
We can marvel at numbers for the economy and more, but 2020 may have made trends hard to…
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Saunders: Trump is running, regardless of outcome for GOP
If he dooms the GOP to failure and sows more discord among voters, he’s OK with that.