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: Trump outdoes himself with crude language
If you are the parent of young children, are you OK with your kids hearing former President Donald Trump's language and putdowns, like the ones at his rally last Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey?

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Opinion: Try a little honesty about Israel
Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after Oct. 7 from the Biden administration.

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Opinion: What happened to the Republican war on ‘woke’ — and what we should have learned from it
This isn't going to be more musing about whether America has reached "peak woke." But that is part of the story. So let's start there.
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Opinion: Biden’s biggest blunder comes at a crucial time
In announcing the United States will pause delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel, President Joe Biden has the laudable motive of wanting to spare innocent Palestinians from the military consequences of Hamas using Rafah as its last stronghold in the Gaza Strip.

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Opinion: Greatest source of antisemitism in Texas doesn’t look very right-wing anymore
It would be easy to believe that antisemitism in Texas is a problem only for the political right.

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Opinion: United Methodist Church bends to secular world
There are many reasons for the modern church's loss of its prophetic voice, politics being just one of them.

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Opinion: Can the current universities be saved?
Elite higher education in America — long unquestioned as globally preeminent — is facing a perfect storm.

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Opinion: Marginalizing Marjorie Taylor Greene, leader of the ‘Chaos Caucus’
As the former deputy chief of staff of the Republican National Committee when Republicans gained 63 House seats to establish a governing majority, I know something about winning elections. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, does not.

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Opinion: What we keep getting wrong about campus protests
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question.

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Opinion: Clint’s Clips: Chattanooga Police Department adds extra patrols, but they’re no panacea
For the second time in around six months, the Chattanooga Police Department has said it would have extra patrols in the downtown area after a shooting that rattled the community.
