All Stories from January 22, 2012 (Change date)
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Gingrich and the perils of projectionJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - Newt Gingrich’s standing ovation Thursday night, when he attacked CNN moderator John King for asking about allegations that Gingrich wanted an “open marriage” with his s...
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A horrific news week in the suburbsJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - If you just landed in the suburbs and looked at the front pages of our Wednesday and Thursday editions, you might have thought: What a horrific and dangerous place to li...
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Obama’s policies stifle U.S. businessesJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - The third-largest employer in the world is the health care system in the UK, which looks after 50 million people. It is now projected that the state-run health care syst...
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Pro life, but not for allJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - So how does a “pro-life” politician treat living things? Pretty poorly it turns out, at least for those living things that the politician doesn’t value. Right-wing extre...
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Fertilized egg being called a child?Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am - James Finnegan’s letter (Fence Post Jan 13) praising Ireland for not allowing mothers to kill their children is an outrageous, deliberately emotive, distortion of the En...
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Quote Obama accuratelyJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - In a Jan. 13 letter to the editor titled “Obama too sure of his successes,” Gene Maril derides President Obama for claiming to be the fourth greatest president ever. His...
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Why more funds for Planned Parenthood?Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am - What receiver of government money got over a 50 percent increase in reimbursement with no increase in the number of services provided? Planned Parenthood did the same am...
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Foolish people still using tollwaysJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - It never ceases to amaze me how stupid a lot of the people in Cook County and the surrounding counties are. With the tolls jumping by 87 percent, I observed thousands of...
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This plan requires no sacrificeJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - I do not want to broadly paint my conservative/Tea Party friends as being unwilling to sacrifice to “save the Republic.” Most I know are sincere and concerned about the ...
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The untimely death of Jane Addams' Hull House AssociationJan 22, 2012 3:30 am - We were struck Thursday by how comparatively little attention greeted the announced death of the Jane Addams Hull House Association. Many of us in the suburbs, of course...