Opinion Columns
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The value of a human lifeSep 21, 2014 1:01 am - From Belgium comes news that a mentally disturbed prisoner is to be granted government help in committing suicide. A typically shallow ethical debate ensued - isn't assi...
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Making sure pols don't fly under the voters' radarSep 20, 2014 11:00 pm - The election is six weeks away, but maybe you've already grown weary of the incessant attack commercials from the candidates for governor and, to a lesser extent, U.S. S...
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Many life milestones are out of millennials' reachSep 18, 2014 1:01 am - We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can't. America's young adults have taken a lot of flak for m...
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Mark Sanford's ongoing saga with himselfSep 18, 2014 1:00 am - As a South Carolinian, it befalls me to examine the peculiarities afflicting our former governor and now-congressman Mark Sanford, who, contrary to decorum and taste, co...
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Let's make a dealSep 16, 2014 1:01 am - When Bill Clinton and George W. Bush announced a project jointly sponsored by their presidential libraries, news coverage focused on the style, not the substance, of the...
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10 maxims on education, from three vantage pointsSep 16, 2014 1:01 am - With students going back to school, it's a good time to review the 10 lessons that Americans should have learned if they were paying attention during the last few decade...
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Obama's careful warSep 14, 2014 1:01 am - The most compelling and encouraging parts of President Obama's Islamic State speech - his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the enemy, his pledge to hunt dow...
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Loss of 'Ex-Im' puts Illinois jobs, economy at riskSep 12, 2014 1:01 am - As we head into the midterm elections, you won't hear any politicians touting their plans to kill American jobs or making stump speeches arguing that foreign companies s...
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Democrats now warming to filibusterSep 11, 2014 1:01 am - During Harry Reid's tenure as majority leader, there has been no dirtier word in the Senate than "filibuster." On perhaps a million occasions, Reid and his Democratic c...
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Carrying the fight to the enemySep 11, 2014 1:01 am - As America pivots back to the Middle East -- in belated recognition that America's enemies never pivoted from their intention to establish a territorial expression of ra...