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: Biden shrugs at inflation
Over the past three years, the Biden White House has gradually passed through the five stages of grief when it comes to inflation. President Joe Biden has now reached the "acceptance" stage. The American public, however, may not be so accommodating.
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Opinion: Is Iran’s charmed life about to come to an end?
The theocracy of Iran has been the world's arch-embassy attacker over the last half century.
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Opinion: Trump trial a much-needed distraction for Biden
Joe Biden started the week off on a high note, well, high for him.
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Opinion: Biden’s willingness to deter allies is telling
After Iran's massive drone and missile attack on Israel Saturday, President Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "You got a win. Take the win." Most of the weapons, the first Iran had ever fired on Israel from its own territory, were successfully intercepted.
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Opinion: For Israel, revenge should be a dish served cold
After several days during which Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei repeatedly vowed that "the evil Zionist regime" would be punished for its April 1 attack on Iran's Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, that killed seven Iranian military advisers, including three top commanders, the Islamic Republic struck.
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Opinion: Vocational education finally making big strides
While the nation's public schools in recent decades have emphasized college preparation, Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" fame has been preaching the gospel of vocational education. His efforts may be paying off.
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Opinion: Legal marijuana is making roads deadlier
Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly -- though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too -- but quickly, in car crashes. It's one more symptom of the disastrous rush by lawmakers to capitalize on cannabis sales without doing the hard work needed to keep the public safe.
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Opinion: The latest sign that Republicans are abandoning even their most deeply held principles
The changing of the conservative mind in recent years could hardly be captured more pithily than in the headline of a recent op-ed: "Why I believe in industrial policy — done right." So opined Sen. Marco Rubio for the Washington Post and, at greater length, for National Affairs.
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Opinion: Migrant rhetoric matches border reality
Having failed to do anything of substance during his tenure to stop seven million migrants from entering the country illegally, President Joe Biden and his supporters are now trying to spin away growing voter alarm about the border crisis as a product of incendiary rhetoric by Donald Trump and Republicans.
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Opinion: Can the left be happy?
A crucial moment in the development of modern left-wing culture arrived in 2013 when Ta-Nehisi Coates, reading books about the ravages and aftermath of World War II by historians Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder, realized that he didn't believe in God.
