Opinion Columns
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Are you (fill in the blank) enough?May 10, 2013 5:00 am - Enough with this “enough” business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz — the co...
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Shooting the rapids of dual playoff runsMay 09, 2013 5:00 am - In the constantly undulating rhythms of the news cycle — now elections take center stage, now a flooding crisis; now, a sensational kidnap story is all the rage, now a c...
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At a loss for words on SyriaMay 08, 2013 5:00 am - It turns out that President Obama did not mean to say “red line” after all. The New York Times tells us the president misspoke. Maybe like a lot of people new to Washing...
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Obama sails a dangerous straitMay 06, 2013 5:00 pm - At a news conference marking 100 days into his second term in office, President Barack Obama said, “What’s happening in Syria is a blemish on the international community...
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‘Common good’ can revive common decencyMay 06, 2013 3:24 pm - The Rev. Jim Wallis is a man of the left — perhaps the defining figure of the evangelical left. So it is not surprising that I should find some of the policy views expre...
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Prude or prudent?May 06, 2013 5:00 am - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens with contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly y...
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The stakes of being too lateMay 05, 2013 5:00 am - On Syria, President Obama has sometimes seemed isolated within his own administration. As the atrocities have escalated — from the shelling of neighborhoods, to airstrik...
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How politics has changedMay 03, 2013 5:00 am - When two senators recently got into a spat over whether the Boston Marathon bombings were being politicized, the news was everywhere within minutes. Reams of commentary ...
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Tequila, with loveMay 02, 2013 5:00 am - Just because Cinco de Mayo is a holiday brewed up by U.S. beer companies doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate it with good tequila. This year, I recommend one that lets you ...
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As pension debate heats up more, forum was timely startMay 02, 2013 5:00 am - Even before the forum on pensions that the Daily Herald co-sponsored with Reboot Illinois last week, we knew it was impractical to expect some specific result that would...