Opinion Columns
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When 'service to others' makes the front pageOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - When we think of how accomplishment is recognized in the news, certain topics probably leap immediately to mind. Like sports, for example, where new heroes rise and fal...
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Don't let Congress jeopardize Illinois's medical miraclesOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - COVID-19 brought with it not just sickness and death when it hit America early last year, but also great national gloom. In fact, when Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the time...
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Scene from a dark corner of the American DreamOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - You could say he fell in the middle of the store because the store is so small that nearly every part of it is in the middle. But the store is not in the middle of the b...
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Guest View: Bigger is not always better, and other thoughts on U.S. v EuropeOct 26, 2021 11:00 pm - I returned to the suburbs in August. It was my third time back to the U.S. this year. This time it was to drop off our son at university. The other two times were for ...
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Data contradicts complaints of runaway Illinois spendingOct 26, 2021 1:00 am - Although the election isn't until November 2022, the race to determine who will be the next governor of Illinois is already heating up - as is the specious rhetoric abou...
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They're aren't many Republicans like Powell anymoreOct 26, 2021 1:00 am - Confession: I used to be a Republican. I briefly became one years ago while living amongst the ultrawoke on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Their authoritarian diktats drov...
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Saunders: Steele tale told around the world, againOct 24, 2021 1:00 am - When you think about it, the claim that, in 2013, former President Donald Trump cavorted with prostitutes in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton who urinated in front of him on a be...
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Stiehm: The tragedy of Joe Manchin in three actsOct 24, 2021 1:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm Sen. Joe Manchin gives new meaning to the old saying, "One man, one vote." The West Virginia Democrat is in the center of three major bills his president...
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Peterson: The climate's sunny hope and threatening skiesOct 22, 2021 1:00 am - I have lived in three Mediterranean countries - Tunisia, Malta and Cyprus - and they have one particular thing in common. Any urban area will see limestone block apartme...
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York: Why is Christopher Steele still defending his dossier?Oct 22, 2021 1:00 am - By Byron York The disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele has kept a low profile in recent years. Understandably so, given that investigations revealed his dossi...