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Free Press Opinion: Tennessee memorial to unborn finds closure after eight-year effort
A monument eight years in the making memorializing aborted babies was dedicated on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol last week.
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Times Opinion: Sticker shock comes suddenly to the Apple store
A week after Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that price hikes for the company's devices were "unavoidable" due to soaring costs in key components, consumers woke up Thursday to just how steep and immediate those increases would be.
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Times Opinion: Beware the hidden risks lurking in property tax cuts
A home that gains value is part of the American dream — except for the taxes. In the past two years, 17 states have lowered or limited property taxes as politicians respond to escalating prices.
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Free Press Opinion: Indeed, not your grandparents’ Democratic Party
Following last week's primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, read a list of things he said those candidates stand for. To conservatives, and independents, the list sounded like a grand jury indictment.
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Heat Dome
Clay Bennett's Times cartoon for June 30, 2026.
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The Social Security Safety Net
Michael Ramirez's Free Press cartoon for June 30, 2026.
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Times Opinion: Don’t let Trump empower Todd Blanche, his modern-day Roy Cohn
"Where's my Roy Cohn?" President Donald Trump famously asked in his first term, angrily despairing at not having an attorney general who'd serve his interests, no holds barred, just as Trump's reptilian mentor and fixer Cohn had done for clients from the notorious red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy to New York mob bosses and a young Trump.
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Times Opinion: Graduates cheered Steve Wozniak’s affirmation of humans over AI. Leaders, pay attention
I was seated onstage at Grand Valley State University's commencement when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaned into the microphone and reframed the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in six words.
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Times Opinion: No diplomacy please, we’re American
It has long been clear to anybody outside the die-hard MAGA scene that America First would sooner or later amount to America Alone. And still, the accelerating pace at which President Donald Trump is alienating other nations and isolating his own is breathtaking.
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Socialism, feral hogs, heat waves and more Rants
Our education system failed to teach the history of socialism, communism, so a generation believes it is possible. They will fail as proven. On my dollar.
