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PAUL GORDON: Take credit: The Dow is Cat’s Meow

Don’t listen to empty promises or absurd claims, such as Trump claiming the reason the stock markets are setting records is because investors are anticipating his return to the White House. … It’s not the stock prices consumers (meaning voters) watch; rather it’s gas prices and grocery bills and the like

Bill Knight: Straws are piling up on the back of support for Israel

BILL KNIGHT

The rage and regret at Biden’s virtually unqualified support for Netanyahu’s war has been building for months. Primary voting data shows Muslim Americans, progressives, young voters, Democrats and more than a few Jews (in the United States and the world) have objected, demonstrated and organized to pressure Biden

Paul Gordon: Wake up — for He is as woke as woke can be

It seems the political right takes umbrage with the term “being woke” because it challenges people to take actions to right injustices.
Conservatives don’t like to be told they aren’t doing everything they can to help those being treated unfairly. So they chastise woke people and consider them the annoying minority.

Bill Knight: This White Sox bid means more corporate welfare

BILL KNIGHT

Most studies say subsidies aren’t supported by claims of economic development, job creation or promised growth. Using public funds to enrich private ventures by wealthy owners takes money from infrastructure, public services and other needs.

Bill Knight: Wistful visit to Northwoods like many malls of America

BILL KNIGHT

Stopping at the mall on a winter day, there were familiar sights, such as seniors enjoying a walk and a sense of community, illusion or not. … Northwoods is markedly different than years past, but there are no Illinois tumbleweeds bouncing through a virtual ghost town

Paul Gordon: Seven deadly sins? Evangelicals choice does them all

What is even one saving grace of this guy? That he’s conveniently conservative? Doesn’t all the bad the man does (his lying, poor treatment of women, fraud, racism, support of fascist ideology) trump his claim he alone got Roe v. Wade overturned? None of this makes me feel our democracy would be safe in his hands; how about you?