Opinion: Freeing Tennessee from K-12 federal education money sounds nice, but state should look before it leaps
Some firsts are praiseworthy.
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Opinion: Shutdown drama, the second longest ‘play’
Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" is the longest running show, of any kind, in the world. It opened Nov. 25, 1952, at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and is …
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Opinion: Government shutdowns are not disastrous. Overspending is
As I have said over the years, I am not at all concerned about a federal government shutdown. My worry is that it might open back up again.
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Opinion: Here’s why President Joe Biden should not have joined the UAW picket line
We understand the political reasoning behind President Joe Biden joining the United Auto Workers picket line in Michigan on Tuesday: Michigan will be a key swi…
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Opinion: GOP debate gaggles unlikely to change the primary outcome — until something consequential happens
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was the only candidate to take the bait.
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Opinion: What the Republicans forcing a government shutdown have in common with 1960s radicals
This week, yet another government shutdown appears inevitable because a sizable chunk of the House Freedom Caucus believes, in the words of Otter in "Animal Ho…
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Opinion: Aging leaders like Biden, McConnell could take another path; Benedict showed the way
In February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI did something truly remarkable: He resigned the papacy.
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Opinion: Rupert Murdoch: Right from the start
To read and watch the reaction of people who have hated Fox News from its creation, one might think it resembles dancing on someone's grave, but at 92, Rupert …
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Opinion: Delay in gym approval would have been prudent step for Hamilton County Board of Education to make
If the people are paying attention, they may wonder about the wisdom of building a new gymnasium at a school which could be scheduled for closure in the near f…
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Opinion: The permanent migration crisis
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced that it will offer work permits and deportation protections to more than 400,000 Venezuelans who have arrived …
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Opinion: GOP walks the impeachment tightrope
The evidence implicating President Joe Biden in influence peddling keeps piling up. There's less evidence that impeachment proceedings will be an electoral boo…
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Opinion: How Washington’s $7.5 trillion deficit spending spree is bankrupting America
Polls show Americans are pessimistic about the economy, with inflation as the top concern. But do they understand where this inflationary surge came from, and …
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Opinion: The Supremes: More posturing, less arguing
Supreme Court oral arguments have gotten too long. How do I know this? It used to be that during one of my longer morning runs, I could listen to an entire Sup…
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Opinion: ‘Battle of the Sexes’ 50 years ago this month opened many men’s eyes to what women could accomplish
It was the topic of conversation for the boys on the hallway wall, we sophomores who'd arrived at Brainerd High School before the first bell in the mid-Septemb…
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Opinion: Our self-induced catastrophe at the border
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 and 8 million illegal entries across the now nonexistent U.S. Southern border.
