Opinion Columns
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Trafficking victims deserve our help, not hateful rhetoricNov 14, 2018 12:00 am - An ugly black market sex trade exists in America. Under false pretenses, it lures or outright kidnaps teenage girls from their countries and forces them into an immoral ...
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Divestment will burn firefighters' pensionsNov 13, 2018 12:00 am - While battling a house fire in suburban Chicago late last year, Lt. Clint Sanders sustained severe burns on his hands and lungs. The 28-year veteran of the Roberts Park ...
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Are we sincere about second chances?Nov 13, 2018 12:00 am - Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida. President Ge...
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What the 6th District race can teach vulnerable Republicans on climate changeNov 12, 2018 12:00 am - Before his loss on Tuesday, Congressman Peter Roskam had been showing signs that he may have been coming around on climate change. But voters delivered their Election Ni...
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Relief is yet to comeNov 11, 2018 12:00 am - By KATHLEEN PARKER It wasn't a blue trickle, but nor was it a tsunami. Rather, the midterm elections brought a gentle, purplish wave of mostly center-leaning Democrats w...
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History teaches us that things don't always work themselves outNov 11, 2018 12:00 am - PARIS - When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it's just a bump on the road and that things will work out. President Obama was fond of invoking M...
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What happens to Trumpism now?Nov 09, 2018 12:00 am - Now that Democrats have won the House majority by a slim margin, what happens next? Their power to shape legislation will be limited, but that's not the whole story. Dem...
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Extremes are strangling common sense solution to border crisisNov 09, 2018 12:00 am - More than 30 years ago, I began going down to the U.S.-Mexican border on a regular basis. I was a correspondent covering Latin America, and I knew, appreciated and loved...
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As the world moves on, the Brett Kavanaugh fight continuesNov 08, 2018 12:00 am - Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court, but the fight over his nomination goes on. The battle is not being fought by Democratic dead-enders who cannot accept th...
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Will Democrats help Trump turn his fake midterm victory into a real one in 2020?Nov 08, 2018 12:00 am - In the spirit of the political season, I want to claim credit for the most STUPENDOUS, INSIGHTFUL and POWERFUL political strategy since Pericles bound the DELIAN LEAGUE ...