Opinion Columns
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Slusher: Forest View to host 'Facts Matter' seriesSep 20, 2018 1:00 am - By Jim Slusher To read Twitter or listen to some people these days, you would think that the concept of "fake news" is something fresh to our generation. Yet, even Thoma...
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As midterms loom, GOP hopes political storm dissipatesSep 20, 2018 1:00 am - Republicans know what the midterm election polls say. They hear the talk about a blue wave. They're aware of historical party-in-power midterm losses in the House. But t...
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Is there a Kavanaugh doppelganger?Sep 19, 2018 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker In one of Brett Kavanaugh's responses to allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl when he was in high school, a charge he has denied ...
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To publish or not to publish?Sep 18, 2018 1:00 am - Should The New York Times have published an anonymous Op-Ed column that describes a White House in chaos and a "quiet resistance movement within the administration" aime...
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Kavanaugh nomination now hangs by thinnest of stringsSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - It is difficult to comment on an unfolding news story, but this one demands it. It is hard to write about someone you know and like, especially concerning matters of cha...
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Multi-year planning, efficiencies helping Dist. 211 operate free of debtSep 16, 2018 11:00 pm - A recent headline in the Daily Herald read that the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 budget lowers costs and forecasts a $7.9 million surplus. Understandably...
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Why my faith in America is still strongSep 16, 2018 1:00 am - It's so easy these days to despair about the future of our country. It feels like half the people I run into just want to pull the covers over their heads and ignore the...
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Kavanaugh is better than his senatorial accusersSep 16, 2018 1:00 am - A surefire ideological Kool-Aid test? Those who think Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was wounded during his hearings have heavily imbibed. Democratic senators on...
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The threat to democracy - from the leftSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a "democratic recession." They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has ...
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Middle East wars fade in the fog of WashingtonSep 14, 2018 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Last week, while the specter of The New York Times' "anonymous" editorial haunted the White House, and this week as we again mourned our losses 17 ...