What is your July 21?
— August 2, 2017July 21. That’s when I decided to write this. July 21 isn’t a holiday and it doesn’t commemorate a notable event on the American calendar. But, for one family, July 21 may be…
Tag: DeKalb County Chronicle
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Why doesn’t Congress help reduce suffering?
— July 26, 2017No answers in this column, just a question — a big question. By way of preface let me say that I try to keep up on the news. And for quite a while now that has been health care, Republicans’…
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Trump’s Warsaw triumph
— July 19, 2017Imagine that President Donald Trump gave a speech praising a strong Europe. Imagine that he called forthrightly on Russia to stop its aggression in Ukraine and join the community of…
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You can put a price on health
— July 12, 2017When the legal smoke clears Cook County doubtless will have a soft drink tax. The measure as originally proposed would impose a 1-cent-per-ounce tax on all “sweetened beverages,”…
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The neglected Reagan
— July 12, 2017Does anyone really know Ronald Reagan? In his new book “The Working Class Republican,” a bracingly revisionist account of the 40th president, Henry Olsen answers “no.”…
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McConnell’s bluff on health care
— July 19, 2017Beware of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lowballing. That’s good advice for the Democrats and others who are getting cocky about defeating a Republican replacement…
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General Assembly is disconnected about landlines
— July 19, 2017Let me see if I have this straight: A new law is necessary when legislators discover there is a problem affecting the citizens they serve. The legislative body then passes a law to…
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Twitter dependence day
— July 12, 2017Donald Trump almost got it right. Where his predecessor from a couple of generations ago, President Harry Truman, famously said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of…
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