Opinion Columns
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Emanuel’s about-face on immigrationJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - How’s this for a role reversal? When Rahm Emanuel was in Congress and later as White House chief of staff, he protected fellow Democrats by steering the party’s agenda ...
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The GOP’s crime against votersJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Spare us any more hooey about “preventing fraud” and “protecting the integrity of the ballot box.” The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ...
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Harry Reid and the race cardJul 18, 2012 10:55 am - Let’s peek into the kindergarten classroom known as the U.S. Senate, where mischievous Harry Reid is playing with his colors again. What if everything that Americans th...
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The Stossel solutionJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekl...
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A debate we shouldn’t be havingJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - To fully appreciate how silly the presidential campaign has become, envision a robot doing the job of a displaced American worker instead of the low-wage laborer abroad ...
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Moving beyond generic RepublicanismJul 17, 2012 5:00 am - On economic policy, Barack Obama has left Mitt Romney an opening. The president has responded to a severe, continuing labor market slump with a 4-year-old, marginally co...
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The worst financial scandal yet?Jul 17, 2012 5:00 am - If only one in four American adults can name his or her U.S. senators, we can assume that even fewer know what Libor is. Libor (pronounced lie-bor) is at the center of a...
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Joe Pa’s shameJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - Outside the Penn State football stadium stands a statue of legendary coach Joe Paterno, his arm raised in victory. Right next to it, university officials should erect an...
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Trolling for boosJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - We’re still a few weeks from summer’s dog days and the conventions, and already feral rabidity has set in. Add to the long list of psycho-political syndromes the “Romney...
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DuPage hit hard two weeks ago, but pales compared to '96Jul 15, 2012 5:00 am - The framed, color reprint of the front page of our July 19, 1996, edition still hangs on the wall outside my office. The main story contains one of my all-time favorite ...