Opinion Columns
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A snapshot of wasteful spending by local governments in IllinoisOct 16, 2018 1:00 am - At the end of the summer, Chicago suburban residents paid their second property tax installment - shelling out more than they ever have before. About the same time these...
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A vacuum of American leadership is filled by cruelty without consequenceOct 16, 2018 1:00 am - Whatever the eventual consequences of the Saudi Arabian regime's suspected murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, President Donald Trump's initial response...
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Parker: Nikki Haley pauses in road to successOct 12, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Seated next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, Nikki Haley did not look like a woman who had tortured herself over whether to resign as...
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Geyer: The rise of greed and grievance in AmericaOct 12, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Like many Americans struck by the liberal versus conservative political and social divides in America, I have been trying to make some sense of it all these...
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York: Why hasn't Trump fired Rosenstein?Oct 11, 2018 1:00 am - Not long after a 2017 meeting in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly discussed wearing a wire to secretly record conversations with President Donald ...
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Slusher: From the Daily Herald to a New York Times' foreign beatOct 11, 2018 1:00 am - By Jim Slusher The late Democratic U.S. speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill famously observed that "all politics is local." Now, a one-time Daily Herald staff w...
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Williams: 'Universal Economics' an eye-opening readOct 10, 2018 1:00 am - By Walter E. Williams A widely anticipated textbook, "Universal Economics," has just been published by Liberty Fund. Its authors are two noted UCLA economists, the late ...
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Gerson: Kavanaugh coverage exposed new media's flawsOct 10, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - In the recent Supreme Court nomination showdown, American institutions underwent a stress test. And we saw the political equivalent of the collapse of Lehma...
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Diplomacy, not military, is key to solution in North KoreaOct 08, 2018 1:00 am - Recently, after President Donald Trump claimed he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "fell in love" via letters, Pyongyang emphasized once again that they need to see...
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Roberts: Two days in September, how our politics has fallenOct 07, 2018 11:00 pm - Two days, not even a month apart, reveal a great deal about the vicious and venomous culture gripping Washington today, especially in the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 1, John M...