Opinion Columns
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Easter attack spotlights Christian persecutionApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - American Christians feel safe in the United States - religious freedom, after all, was one of the rights the American experiment was all about. That freedom, and the way...
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Trump: the liberal stereotype of RepublicansApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - This campaign season has offered an unexpected form of reality television entertainment: Watching the light of discovery and calculation in Donald Trump's eyes when he i...
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Constitution change needed to remedy gridlockApr 04, 2016 1:00 am - As a former Illinois budget director under Gov. Pat Quinn for the four years following the Great Recession, I am disappointed to hear the gridlock in our current governo...
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Outrage, scandal and why Hillary doesn't get a fair shakeApr 01, 2016 1:00 am - Some days I wonder if I'm qualified to express opinions about American politics anymore. I'm not particularly angry, and I doubt voters in general are any more worked up...
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Slusher: From Brussels terrorism, the too-frequent deliberations on an iconic image of tragedyMar 31, 2016 1:00 am - Nearly every afternoon's meeting of news editors concludes with a review of options for the next-day print edition's most prominent Page 1 picture. On Tuesday, March 22,...
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Sinking to old lowsMar 30, 2016 1:00 am - When a presidential election devolves into a hydrant-watering contest between leading contenders about the relative attractiveness of their respective wives, not only do...
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Change is in the air in HavanaMar 30, 2016 1:00 am - Observing President Obama and his beautiful family in Cuba this week, one could still be convinced, as many Americans are, that this voyage for "freedom" was a serious m...
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Why women must be eligible for the draftMar 29, 2016 1:00 am - Rosie the Riveter wasn't drafted to do her essential work during World War II. If she had been, she would have collected a pension and some praise. For women to be trul...
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Donna Brazile: Killing terrorism without killing freedomMar 29, 2016 1:00 am - By Donna Brazile Last week, three men out of 7 billion souls on this planet blew themselves up in a Brussels airport and a subway station, killing at least 31 civilians,...
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Why women must be eligible to the military draftMar 29, 2016 1:00 am - Rosie the Riveter wasn't drafted to do her essential work during World War II. If she had been, she would have collected a pension and some praise. And the women who ser...