Opinion Columns
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It's leadership that matters in mass evilAug 25, 2015 1:00 am - DACHAU - It is August and the parking lots are full. Throngs course through the barracks, stroll the once-electrified perimeter, view huge photos of horror and, inevitab...
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The 2016 field is full of deadbeatsAug 25, 2015 1:00 am - There's a certain demographic in this country - it's unseemly to mention the specific population by name - that has no sense of personal responsibility. I don't know whe...
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VA whistleblowers need more protectionAug 23, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois is home to more than 700,000 men and women who have served our country in a military uniform. Throughout the state we entrust five Department of Veterans Affair...
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The circular nature of liquor controlAug 22, 2015 1:00 pm - A short story in some Saturday editions - St. Charles taking a pass on initiating its own ban on happy hour, which the state recently re-legalized - prompted a walk down...
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New plan will help ensure reliable powerAug 21, 2015 1:00 am - Keeping the lights on, safely and reliably, is Exelon's primary responsibility to customers. Part of that is planning ahead to make sure we have enough power to meet our...
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Slusher: Our goal: Not 'liberal,' not 'conservative' -- just stimulatingAug 20, 2015 1:00 am - The call I took this morning from a reader unhappy with one of our editorial cartoons could almost serve as a punctuation mark on the theme for today's column. The reade...
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Jeb Bush and the dangers of refighting the Iraq WarAug 20, 2015 1:00 am - Jeb Bush based his first major foreign policy address, delivered this month at the Reagan Library, on the classic Republican interpretation of the war in Iraq. Yes, mist...
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Expand, don't decrease, efforts on affordable child careAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Most children under age 5 today are growing up with working mothers. But as a nation, we're doing far too little to help mothers care for their kids while they're at wor...
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Truman was right to use the bombAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Should the United States apologize for the nuclear bombing of Japan at the very end of World War II? The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 years ago this month, kill...
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On having time - and the ability - to thinkAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - It is that sane and glorious time when the nation's capital dispenses its human cargo to places of origin and locations of respite. "I don't know why everyone leaves," ...