Opinion Columns
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‘Undedication’ of ex-Carol Stream mayor sign prompts blame gameFeb 24, 2013 4:00 am - Don’t shoot the messenger! Perhaps that’s not an officially sanctioned axiom of journalism, But I’ll wager every reporter can cite numerous examples in which his or her ...
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Amazon rules the sales-tax jungleFeb 22, 2013 4:00 am - SEATTLE — Lunch hour in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Workers walk dogs they can take to the office. Lines form in hip restaurants. Something big is going on here, ...
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Time for a RINO rebellionFeb 22, 2013 4:00 am - RINO-hunting, the long-popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission. RINO, of course, refe...
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Random thoughts on deadlines, fiction and fraudFeb 21, 2013 4:00 am - Meditations of a journalistic kind: Ÿ Ours is a business of constant online deadlines throughout the day with that one overriding capital-D Deadline of the daily press s...
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Solitary confinement’s tollFeb 21, 2013 4:00 am - “Zero Dark Thirty,” a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, whic...
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Washington’s serial abdicationFeb 20, 2013 4:00 am - “I don’t know whether to kill myself or to go bowling,” goes the old country song. Official Washington has apparently decided to do both — permitting a self-destructive ...
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Love, alas, is all around usFeb 20, 2013 4:00 am - I love you. Honestly, I do. I love all my readers — each and every one of you, including the ones I don’t know, which is most of you. This is the way it now is in Americ...
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50 years later, the mistakes of the ‘Mystique’Feb 19, 2013 4:00 am - Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan, who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto “The Feminine Mystique.” With that book, Friedan he...
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Winning the argument on governmentFeb 19, 2013 4:00 am - In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win the argu...
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Republicans plagued by good newsFeb 18, 2013 4:00 am - MEDFORD, Ore. — “Obama says he’s going to make middle-class jobs,” the breakfast room troubadour bellowed at the Holiday Inn Express to those who wanted to listen — and ...