Opinion Columns
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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 ...
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Trouble in the middleJul 15, 2012 5:00 am - A study out this week by the liberal Center for American Progress found that kids in the middle don’t think school is challenging enough. That’s right: According to the ...
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The Islamist ascendancyJul 13, 2012 3:37 pm - Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well ...
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The numbers gameJul 13, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s attempt to spin the latest discouraging unemployment numbers as “a step in the right direction” is like telling passengers aboard the Titanic to ignore...
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Where they play, rich conservatives like zoningJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - Last weekend’s memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. ...
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In ‘rough draft,’ we err on the side of inclusionJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - The newspaper is sometimes called a rough draft of history. In that sense, the Letters to the Editor column, or Fence Post in the Daily Herald, can be very much like a r...
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Obama in denialJul 11, 2012 5:39 pm - One would think, given so much practice, that the Obama White House would have been better prepared for last week’s wretched jobs report. Instead, we witnessed the five ...
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The regulatory heavy handJul 11, 2012 5:00 am - PHOENIX — The federal government is a bull that has found yet another china shop, this time in Arizona. It seems determined to inflict, for angelic motives and progressi...
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Terror among the richJul 11, 2012 5:00 am - WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. -- It was a Romney weekend in the Hamptons. He went to three fundraisers, reportedly hauling in more than $3 million from the terrified rich who,...
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Words vs. deedsJul 10, 2012 5:00 am - CAMDEN — South Carolina politics never fails to amuse — and bemuse. A recent ethics imbroglio between Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP activist John Rainey is a case...