Opinion Columns
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Polarized to a drawAug 29, 2012 5:00 am - TAMPA, Fla. -- The 2012 presidential election raises two seemingly contradictory questions: First, given a stagnant economy and a sour public mood, why isn’t Mitt Romne...
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Quinn’s gambling bill kill bad news for horse racingAug 28, 2012 10:50 am - When it comes to Illinois politics, you might be better served pounding your head against a cement mixer than trying to figure out how our elected officials make their d...
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A Big Ten strategy for GOP?Aug 28, 2012 5:00 am - Conventions are the seventh-inning stretches of presidential politics, a pause to consider the interminable prelude and the coming climax. Republicans gathered in Tampa ...
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The platform of the partyAug 27, 2012 5:00 am - A constitutional prohibition on abortion, even in cases of rape and incest? No federal funds for universities that allow undocumented students to pay the same tuition as...
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The Cordesman criteriaAug 27, 2012 5:00 am - Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan Horse or it is on the cusp of a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. What’s alarming is...
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Thin line between news gathering and insensitivityAug 26, 2012 5:00 am - The media alert did not equivocate. “On Thursday, August 23, Megan’s funeral will be held at St. Michael Catholic Church in Wheaton. While the family is grateful to the ...
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The parable of the two congressmenAug 24, 2012 12:34 pm - Take two congressmen — I am tempted to say, please. One exposes his, well, equipment in the Holy Land. The other exposes his ignorance and pride. Who is the more sacrile...
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Why government needs a dietAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Because the possibility of effectively supervising government varies inversely with government’s size, so does government’s lawfulness. This iron law of Leviathan is ill...
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The delusions in Ryan’s Medicare visionAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn’t. It’s really hard to know what Mitt Romney’s VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes Obamacare’s $716 billi...
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Openness in an hour of pain is a gift to rest of usAug 23, 2012 6:27 am - This column is my expression of thanks to all those people who, in the midst of the deepest suffering, take some time out to describe the source of their grief with a lo...