Opinion Columns
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A call for 'patient pluralism'Feb 15, 2015 12:00 am - The rapidity of progress by the gay rights movement - from Stonewall to likely Supreme Court vindication of gay marriage in a historical blink - is causing a series of s...
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Illinois must protect its nuclear energyFeb 13, 2015 12:00 am - President Obama's pursuit of climate change regulations, set to be finalized this summer, could make him the most progressive environmentalist to serve as president sinc...
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The universality of evilFeb 13, 2015 12:00 am - In 1916, a man by the name of Jesse Washington was accused of rape and murder and swiftly convicted. Washington was black and the woman was white and the location was Wa...
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Why did Brian Williams do it?Feb 12, 2015 12:00 am - These are tough times for NBC's Brian Williams - and tougher times for journalism. The NBC newsman was suspended Tuesday night for six months amid charges that he misre...
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Condemning Islam is the wrong courseFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - Days after the video appeared of a Jordanian pilot horribly burned to death by an Islamic State death squad, President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast that all ...
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Pretty lies, ugly truths and ISISFeb 11, 2015 12:00 am - Unable to address the ugly truth, masking it with pretty lies, and substituting subtle innuendo for courage have become operational standards for this White House. Thoug...
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Put Washington back, and celebrate freedomFeb 10, 2015 5:00 am - Let's give his birthday back to George Washington. Is there some timely reason? Yes. Most facts of George Washington's life and career are well-known; the man who kept a...
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Netanhahu, Boehner - the bad boys of diplomacyFeb 10, 2015 12:00 am - From the days, centuries ago, when Tatar and then French were the languages of diplomacy, there was another language even more important than the spoken word. This was t...
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2016: Bumpy roads ahead to the nominationsFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - Less than a year from now, voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere will gather in town centers, gymnasiums, local libraries and school cafeterias to kick off the 201...
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Unmasking Rand PaulFeb 08, 2015 12:00 am - It has become the Rand Paul pattern: A few weeks paddling vigorously in the mainstream, followed by a lapse into authenticity, followed by transparent damage control, fo...