Opinion Columns
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Saunders: Vaccine shaming is not a solution to COVID-19 pandemicDec 24, 2021 12:00 am - Blaming the unvaccinated is the sharpest tool in President Joe Biden's shed, and that is not healthy for America. Consider Biden's address to the nation on COVID-19 from...
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Stiehm: After a rough year, New York offers the kindness of strangersDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm New York was full of kind strangers two weeks before Christmas, even as the omicron variant was coming to town. A police officer in the 14th Street subwa...
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York: Democrats seem delusional about the weak hand they holdDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he will not support the Democrats' giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been watching for the last ...
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York: Democrats seem delusional about the weak hand they holdDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he will not support the Democrats' giant spending bill should not have been a surprise to anyone who has been watching for the last ...
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Kamala Harris is a liabilityDec 22, 2021 12:00 am - Here's a depressing thought. The three people most likely to appear at the top of the November ballot in 2024 are President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and f...
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Against the religion of 'woke anti-racism'Dec 22, 2021 12:00 am - "If you pull the camera back and think about 1965, and think about last week, there's been massive improvement. The question is why so many people pretend that that's no...
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We can find a way to define the 'common good' in AmericaDec 21, 2021 12:00 am - I still remember a question I got years ago. It was at a public meeting in southern Indiana, in one of those squat, featureless cinder-block buildings you find all acros...
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Why parents shouldn't rely on Santa for big Christmas giftsDec 21, 2021 12:00 am - Between the breaking news reports from the tornadic devastation in the Midwest, I worked on Christmas crafts with my kindergartner. The juxtaposition of hardship and the...
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Eric Zorn: What's next for actor Jussie Smollett and prosecutor Kim Foxx?Dec 20, 2021 4:30 am - EDITOR'S NOTE: The following items are excerpted from Eric Zorn's “Picayune Sentinel” daily newsletter of Dec. 16. Now what for Jussie Smollett? A Cook County ...
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Summit will involve students in search for unity on Illinois issuesDec 20, 2021 12:00 am - Is the notion of "One Illinois" a reasonable hope, a noble aspiration or an impossible dream? The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is inviting Illinois college student...