Editorials

Obama backs off anti-meat guidelines, for good reason

Consumers won’t know meat origin after US ends labeling law New dietary guidelines: lean meat OK, cut the…

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Emanuel’s Chicago needs private sector

A Midwestern humorist, Indiana’s Kin Hubbard, said people often confuse bad management with destiny. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel…

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The limits to what government can do

Hillary Clinton’s answer to the “Black Lives Matter” question in Tuesday night’s debate was vintage Hillary, who long…

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Nobel laureate sees limits of foreign aid

The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics has done some outstanding work regarding poverty. Angus Deaton,…

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Framers’ intentions were not a mystery

Colorado embodies national divide over gun control There’s a strategy here. Recognizing that repealing the Second Amendment is…

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Texas a great place for small business

We’re doing a lot of things right. A new study by the Pacific Research Institute ranks Texas No.…

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Politically correct on Columbus Day

As we all learned in school, in 1492, Christopher Columbus stepped off a frail, water-sodden, scurvy-ridden vessel onto…

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Texas Constitution is a check on power

It has been said that optimists see the glass as half full. Pessimists see the glass as half…

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Drug control measures aren’t the answer to mass shootings

It loosened them up some last year, but Russia has had strict gun laws for decades and currently…

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Cultural differences explain disparities

The prevailing social dogma of our time – that economic and other disparities among groups are strange, if…