Opinion Columns
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Nekritz: Time to do the right thing over the easy thingMay 12, 2013 5:00 am - I want to begin by thanking the Daily Herald and Reboot Illinois for the opportunity to appear at their pension forum recently. The organizers presented well-crafted que...
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The fog on BenghaziMay 10, 2013 9:15 am - In some cases, the fog of war is initially thick, then dissipates. Following the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Chri...
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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 ...