Opinion Stories from December 20, 2012 (Change date)
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The tension between public safety, libertyDec 20, 2012 1:43 pm - Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root c...
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Editorial: NIU case is another example of hazing’s cynical disguiseDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Two weeks ago, reflecting on controversies at some area high schools, we condemned the common view of hazing as a harmless tradition that only occasionally gets out of h...
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What’s so offensive about a Christmas tree?Dec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Recently I read a disturbing series of articles. There were two that really stuck out. The first was a story about a nursing home whose management decided that they coul...
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Stick to the law and pass a budgetDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - The Senate has not passed a budget for three-plus years. Now, as I see it, our president does not want a budget passed and Harry Reid is simply doing the bidding of the ...
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Events that test the limits of the goal of restraintDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Our first impulse was for restraint, but it is impossible to be fully restrained when 20 elementary schoolchildren are shot dead, along with teachers, a principal and ot...
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Step 1: Declare we will not accept thisDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - The intercom had been switched on. “At first we heard a bunch of kids scream,” said a therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, “and then it was just quiet and all you ...
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Who’s protecting whom in Benghazi attack?Dec 20, 2012 4:00 am - As I understand it there are three segments to the Benghazi affair, the before, the during and the after. Why has there been so much concern on the after and Susan Rice?...
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Voters don’t have say in corporate welfareDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Rarely do I find such a degree of contradiction, hypocrisy and irony as in the Dec 13 issue of the Daily Herald. On Page 1, Village of Libertyville’s political class is...
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The problem is culture, not gunsDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Time and time again when tragedy strikes, our adolescent culture avoids the tough issues and looks for “politically correct” causes and solutions. Once again, a mentall...
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A celebration of Ravi Shankar’s lifeDec 20, 2012 3:40 am - A celebration of Ravi Shankar’s life Thanks for publishing a locally reported article about the life and work of Ravi Shankar, with comments from Anuradha Behari an...
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