Opinion Columns
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That non-P.C. shtick works only as long as we're all offendedSep 09, 2015 1:00 am - "The message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage, but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada." - Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselve...
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Kim Davis is no Rosa ParksSep 08, 2015 1:00 am - Rosa Parks is an American hero, but her case was not an accident. Other African-Americans had shown similar defiance (ask Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her se...
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Clerk Kim Davis will be a lonely footnote in historySep 06, 2015 1:00 am - Tricky business, this righteous outrage. You have to be so careful not to sound like a hypocrite while you're deriding hypocrisy. Messes with your sleep. In the past fe...
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Trump's tower of babble on languageSep 05, 2015 11:00 pm - Donald Trump has a point when he talks about the need for immigrants to learn English. "That's how we assimilate," he says. Which is true, as any visitor to Miami's Litt...
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'Officer Down' site a sad reminder of painful lossSep 05, 2015 12:00 pm - 1,060. That's how many police officers in Illinois died in the line of duty, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a volunteer-driven website that lists casualtie...
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Politicians are failing us on the economySep 04, 2015 1:00 am - A couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy's long-term prospects. Not to put too fine a point on it, we're head...
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The tough choices facing NapervilleSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - Since being seated in May of this year, the Naperville City Council has diligently been working on sustainable solutions to the city's fiscal imbalance. It is critical t...
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Slusher: Remember reliability, not just immediacy of breaking newsSep 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Covering breaking news on the so-called 24-hour news cycle has always been fraught with certain perils. It was challenge enough before the turn of the century, when in m...
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The GOP's Trump dilemma: How to overcome futilitySep 02, 2015 1:00 am - "I don't want it to be about me," Donald Trump explained at a recent event in Nashville. In other news: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Trum...
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The emerging, sorry truths about our history with ISISSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - When the first savage hordes of the Islamic State came rolling out of Syria in stolen American trucks across the unrelieved sands of northern Iraq in 2013, it seemed to ...