Free Press Commentary
The latest Free Press Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Opinion: Are we witnessing ‘creative’ destruction or just plain destruction?
When drastic disruptions bring new political leaders, policymakers respond with major changes.

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Opinion: Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and European ministers reveal to be slow on the uptake
Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of President Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet, the venom only further marginalizes the left.

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Opinion: Trump’s ‘saving country’ quote more than idle trolling
The president of the United States recently posted a possibly apocryphal quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte on social media: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."

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Opinion: President Trump, appeasing evil never ends well
In his 1951 farewell address to Congress and the American public (known as the "old soldiers never die, they just fade away" speech), Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur said something the Trump administration should recall as it seeks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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Opinion: A disgrace of understanding in Munich
In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich's chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an "anti-parliamentarian party," would nonetheless compete in that May's parliamentary elections.

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Opinion: Fraud by any other name
The credit card statement contained an unfamiliar charge. I called the fraud department, which canceled the payment and immediately sent me a new card. If only the federal government responded with similar alacrity.

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Opinion: Is Musk a Bond villain or America’s salvation?
Elon Musk could be either the most dangerous man in America or its savior.

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Opinion: Like it or not, Washington needs creative destruction brought by Trump and Musk
Before Donald Trump, change came to Washington very slowly. Now it has come in a great, big, destructive whirl.

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Opinion: Trump administration conundrum: right-size foreign aid or retreat
I didn't expect that the first great struggle of the Trump administration would focus on the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Opinion: ‘Cherish and love’ Medicaid by reforming it
President Donald Trump recently said that his administration will "cherish and love" Medicaid.
