Opinion Columns
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Spending bill, not Obamacare, reveals deep GOP divisionMay 11, 2017 1:00 am - If you want to see what divides Republicans in Congress, don't look at the struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare. Look at spending. The House's narrow passage of a pa...
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Slusher: Get 'wonky' to help shape your quality of lifeMay 10, 2017 11:00 pm - One of the worst criticisms you can lay on a news story - or commentary, for that matter - is to call it wonky. A "wonk" is a generally pejorative term used to describe ...
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What do leftists celebrate?May 10, 2017 1:00 am - May Day celebrations were held all across the fruited plain, with leftist radicals and unionists worshipping the ideals of communism. Communism is an ideology calling fo...
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Loss of moral leadership is root of Venezuela's painMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - For those of us correspondents who covered it for many years, it's hard today to remember when Venezuela was the democratic hope of Latin America. From the time the grea...
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For Trump, it's all about winningMay 09, 2017 1:00 am - Actors Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump are like twins separated at birth. Both became rich and famous - by hook in one case and by whatever in the other - each to his own...
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Psychiatric hospital would address an unmet needMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - YIMBY - Yes In My Backyard - made a rare appearance at a zoning commission hearing in Vernon Hills recently. A standing-room-only crowd packed into the meeting room, whi...
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Border adjustment tax could devastate Illinois importers and jobsMay 08, 2017 1:00 am - Congress has a rare opportunity in the coming months to replace our nation's broken and dysfunctional tax code with one that is simple, efficient and fair for all Americ...
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Trump is hurting America's friends abroadMay 07, 2017 1:00 am - By Fareed Zakaria There has been much focus on Donald Trump's erratic foreign policy - the outlandish positions, the many flip-flops, the mistakes. But far more damaging...
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Feder column adds new dimension to Daily HeraldMay 06, 2017 2:00 pm - It was quite the first week for the new team of Robert Feder and the Daily Herald. On the same day we told readers the Feder Chicago media column would be running in the...
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On Afghanistan, Trump could learn from BushMay 05, 2017 1:00 am - Between the solutionless horror of North Korean nukes and the self-inflicted damage of Twitter diplomacy lies a decision that, while important in itself, will indicate a...