Opinion Columns
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Farewell, the New FrontierApr 22, 2012 5:00 am - As the space shuttle Discovery flew three times around Washington, a final salute before landing at Dulles airport for retirement in a museum, thousands on the ground ga...
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West Chicago mayor more than successful polApr 22, 2012 5:00 am - At today's memorial service at West Chicago's Community High School, I'd bet you'll hear one story after another about Mayor Mike Kwasman, who died Tuesday following a w...
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Rants that do more harm than goodApr 22, 2012 1:00 am - Not all overheated political rhetoric is alike. Delusional right-wing crazy talk — the kind of ranting we’ve heard recently from washed-up rock star Ted Nugent and Tea P...
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Obama enters the presidential dogfightApr 20, 2012 1:00 am - I take a back seat to no one when it comes to loving dogs. For that matter, my dog takes a back seat to no one. Ollie rides shotgun. Thus, the story of Seamus, the Romne...
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Judging, the cosmic wayApr 20, 2012 1:00 am - Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze w...
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Women, work, jobs and timeApr 18, 2012 11:18 am - To quote “Adelaide’s Lament” from “Guys and Dolls,” “You can feed her all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz/ But the medicine never gets anywhere near where the t...
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The real Rosen question: Can Romney relate?Apr 18, 2012 11:18 am - As it turns out, Hilary Rosen was wrong about Ann Romney not working a day in her life. She’s plainly working right now, as a strategist for her husband’s campaign, not ...
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What Mitt will we get?Apr 18, 2012 11:18 am - It’s all over but the shouting, or, in this case, the polite applause: Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. But which Mitt Romney? Will it be ...
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Economic object lessons from LondonApr 18, 2012 1:00 am - The United Kingdom is in the midst of the great pasty crisis of 2012 — which, incidentally, has nothing to do with the garb of exotic dancers. The pasty is a hot, meat-f...
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Truth a casualty in ‘Mommy Wars’Apr 18, 2012 1:00 am - Virtually everything said and done in a presidential election year distorts the truth, much like concave and convex mirrors in a carnival attraction alter one’s true ref...