Opinion Columns
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Picking fights over religionDec 17, 2013 4:00 am - “We have just enough religion to make us hate,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “but not enough to make us love one another.” A lifelong religious controversialist, the 18th-centu...
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The Central African Republic needs our helpDec 17, 2013 4:00 am - Rwanda’s ethnic conflict was a quarrel in a faraway country between people of which we know nothing — until it became a byword for moral abdication in the face of genoci...
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How we captured Elburn million-light holiday displayDec 15, 2013 4:00 am - So, here’s the back story to the gorgeous photo that ran on Saturday’s front page. Although the work for the TV show was done in October, which was cold and rainy enough...
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Holy suckitude!Dec 15, 2013 4:00 am - ’Tis the season and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift to the American people — her phrase “Embrace the suck.” Miraculous. Offered to fellow Democrats as a ...
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Message to teens about drugs is the wrong oneDec 13, 2013 4:00 am - “From our perspective, any number above one is too many,” a high school spokesman said in February 2012, referencing the suspensions of upward of 40 kids for texting abo...
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Giving world news a suburban contextDec 12, 2013 12:04 pm - Sometimes world news is just world news. That’s not an easy thing to acknowledge for a local newspaper doing battle every day with two of the biggest metros in the count...
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The gospel according to JCPenneyDec 12, 2013 4:00 am - One of the unpleasant side effects of modern medicine — experienced during a recent convalescence — is the omnipresence of television. Its controls are built into your h...
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The open wound that is IsraelDec 11, 2013 4:00 am - In “My Promised Land,” Ari Shavit’s anguished book about Israel, there is plenty about the mistreatment of Palestinians — today, yesterday and always. Some of it is just...
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Little talk of ‘affordable’ in PR pushDec 11, 2013 4:00 am - One striking thing about the new White House Obamacare promotion campaign is that so far it hasn’t had much to say about the central focus of Obamacare, which is helping...
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Putting the pope’s words in contextDec 10, 2013 4:00 am - We have reached a new level of political absurdity when the right is mad at the pope and the left wants to anoint his head with oil. Everyone seems to have his own spec...