Opinion Stories from December 28, 2012 (Change date)
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Editorial: Pension reform must address COLAsDec 30, 2012 6:51 am - It's become a foregone conclusion that nearly all of us will have to share the cost of cleaning up Illinois' pension mess. That, sadly, includes taxpayers, who will face...
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God has been forgottenDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - Reflecting on the horror that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut brought me to the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Men have forgotten God; t...
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Congress needs to kick the spending habitDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - When my children were growing up I used to have to tell them often there was no money tree growing in our backyard. Yet our state and federal governments act like there ...
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Better health care answer to tragedyDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - With the recent tragedy in Connecticut, the words “gun control” are abundant everywhere. I’ll offer an outside-of-the-box idea to the nuts who think gun control regulati...
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Obama’s re-election hardly a mandateDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - I have seen many people saying that by being re-elected, the president was given a “mandate” to implement his radical socialist policies. Nothing could be farther from t...
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The door-opener to AmericaDec 29, 2012 8:53 am - At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of “the first compr...
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Israel has the power to make peaceDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - Israel has a superb military that has proved four times that it can clobber the entire Arab world. In Gaza recently, the tally showed Palestinians deaths at 165, Israeli...
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The politics of threatDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - The people are sad. If holiday shopping is any measure of public mood, the joy vanished this year. The grade-school massacre depressed everyone, and now our rapid approa...
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