Opinion | Daily Journal

I enjoy having my grandchildren here, but this Grandma was ready for her recliner after everyone left. How nice to be able to enjoy them all, then still get your sleep at night.

If the president wants to help himself and his party ahead of this year’s midterm elections, the most effective thing he can do is eliminate the tariffs.

In this week's column, Dennis Marek writes gambling may not be brought into the body as alcohol or drugs, but it is otherwise the same.

People are only limited in the amount they can earn by their talents, persistence, and a willingness to take reasonable risks.

In this week’s “A Taylor-Made Life,” Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about hitting the point of burnout and slowly learning how to take things off the plate.

Registering to vote is neither required nor a guarantee of actually voting, which might be partly why political types are so comfortable with the phrase “publicly owned” referring to a specific government entity and not the constituents whom that entity technically represents.

Even though the country is still adding people at about replacement level, population alarmists are painting falling birthrates as an economic disaster in the making.

Government historians can explain how Illinois ended up with this timetable, but those recollections often explain only why it exists – not whether it’s the best approach.

If you spend too much of your life watching the crowd, eventually you stop asking what excites you, what moves you, and what feels true. You stop creating and start performing.


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