Opinion Columns
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Five notes on Trump's current predicamentJun 14, 2017 1:00 am - The danger President Trump faces from the various investigations into the Trump-Russia matter has changed dramatically in recent weeks. If you're a Republican and you st...
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Does it matter what Bernie Sanders thinks of your view on salvation?Jun 13, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson It is apparently not enough for some of the liberal minded to help those on Medicare and Social Security; now people must be guaranteed eligibility for...
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School funding bill is true, fair reformJun 12, 2017 1:00 am - In the few cases where I've disagreed with the Daily Herald's editorial opinions, I've done so understanding the arguments made and the clear reasoning behind them. In t...
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Change on immigration begins with attitudesJun 11, 2017 1:00 am - Whenever there's a world crisis, at some point there also comes a breaking point - after which the drama is never acted out quite the same way. The Battle of Midway was ...
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The Quarry men? How the Sox almost played in ElmhurstJun 10, 2017 2:00 pm - Buoyed by the knowledge that when excess rainwater pours into the massive Elmhurst Quarry, people drive there and stare at the flow through a fence, DuPage County plans ...
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Congress needs to reassert itself on use of forceJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - The Trump Administration, like its predecessors, has shown an apparent appetite for the use of force overseas. The "mother of all bombs" dropped on Syrian troops, saber-...
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Poor Eric TrumpJun 09, 2017 1:00 am - This week, the president's second-eldest son went on national television and dropped all pretense of what we knew had never happened anyway. Instead of weaving yet anoth...
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Wishing for a Trump TwitterectomyJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - "If only he would stop tweeting." Those words came from a friend of mine named "Jack," quite possibly President Trump's biggest fan. A former secret service agent, Jack ...
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Time to govern, RepublicansJun 08, 2017 1:00 am - On Nov. 9, 2016, in the stunned afterglow of Republicans taking the White House and holding both chambers of Congress, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor put it pl...
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Democrats' hoodwinking of blacksJun 07, 2017 1:00 am - Ask any black person which political party has been black people's political ally. With near unanimity, blacks would answer the Democratic Party. Asked which political p...