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Harrop: Numbers show Texas shouldn’t mess with California
Predictions that California’s economy was failing haven’t panned out. It’s beating Texas on GDP.
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Schwab: Denial in the face of all evidence causes hoaxstroke
It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity on climate change, the Jan. 6 riots and racism that’s most…
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Harrop: Purpose of taxes is revenue, not revenge on wealthy
There’s nothing to gain in blaming the pandemic’s honest economic winners for the hardships of others.
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Schwab: FBI was in on Jan. 6? Italian satellites swapped votes?
As long as we’re spinning conspiracies, is Tucker a Kremlin plant? We’re just asking questions, here.
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Saunders: Is Hunter Biden’s new career art for grift’s sake?
With paintings going to anonymous buyers for up to $500,000, new questions of pay to play arise.
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Harrop: Lucky for Republicans, Obamacare has survived
Now, both parties need to stop nibbling at the edges of reform and fully deliver on the ACA’s…
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Burke: Put that in my pipe and smoke it? Don’t mind if I do
Having quit cigarettes decades ago, I indulge, seasonally, in a pipe packed with sweet tobacco.
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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.