Opinion Columns
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Iran thumbs its nose at the U.S.Sep 16, 2015 1:00 am - Since the Iran nuclear deal was announced in mid-July, the world has been treated to an unusual historical spectacle. As President Obama was busy twisting congressional ...
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Prosecution of white collar crime hits 20-year lowSep 15, 2015 1:00 am - Just a few years after the financial crisis, a new report tells an important story: Federal prosecution of white-collar crime has hit a 20-year low. The analysis by Syra...
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gerson.clm 0913Sep 13, 2015 1:00 am - Fourteen grim anniversaries separated from Sept. 11, 2001, some memories still come in high definition, like flashes of a strobe light. An email from my deputy I read a...
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Mind-boggling I-88 traffic solution nears finish lineSep 12, 2015 12:00 pm - It was innovative, maybe even mind-boggling. But when the "diverging diamond" reconfiguration of the I-88 and Route 59 interchange was proposed more than five years ago,...
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Congress must expand anti-heroin effortsSep 11, 2015 1:00 am - Jody Daitchman was blindsided when her son Alex Laliberte overdosed on heroin in their Buffalo Grove home. Alex had a history of drug misuse, but Jody didn't know that h...
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Ode to joy, and trust, on campaign trailSep 11, 2015 1:00 am - It's no longer enough to be a happy warrior; now our candidates must be joyful! Oh, joie. Jeb Bush started the joy bender last week when he told a New Hampshire audience...
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Now, it's up to Senate to act on IRS's gift-tax ruleSep 10, 2015 11:00 pm - In 2013, the IRS Tea Party scandal broke. America found out that the IRS, in the form of Lois Lerner and others, was using its power to try to intimidate people into sil...
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Slusher: Information vacuum is sometimes unavoidable, always uncomfortableSep 10, 2015 1:00 am - And now we wait. Like wheels within wheels, there is a rhythm to the news cycle, and it is not always comforting. In regard to the killing of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewi...
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Obama's largest failure - Syria's graveyard of American credibilitySep 10, 2015 1:00 am - One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million ...
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Biden's bankruptcy bill could complicate a presidential runSep 09, 2015 1:00 am - As Vice President Joe Biden reportedly mulls a bid for the U.S. presidency, his champions portray him as a credible alternative to Democratic Party front-runner Hillary ...