Opinion Columns
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The author of nightmaresJan 30, 2012 4:00 am - DUNGU, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Francoise, age 16, talks quietly, revealing a shy smile only after praise for her tight cornrows. While walking to school four ...
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The State of the Union flopJan 29, 2012 4:00 am - Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and cha...
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An argument Obama can winJan 29, 2012 4:00 am - If you heard a loud “gulp” after President Obama’s State of the Union address, it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party’s odds...
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DuPage mayors want pension reform — and moreJan 29, 2012 4:00 am - Several months ago, I accepted an invitation to speak before the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference. The group wanted me to address the topic: How does the Daily Hera...
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Answer to morgue mess? Don't die in Cook CountyJan 28, 2012 11:00 pm - If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, then a morgue is one of the few places where those two realities intersect. Or, in the case of the Cook County morgu...
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Bloated hype aside, it’s still a crisisJan 27, 2012 4:00 am - Friends, don’t believe the hype. Despite well-intentioned headlines proclaiming that the obesity crisis has finally leveled off, we can’t yet say “mission accomplished.”...
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Rooting for NewtJan 27, 2012 4:00 am - Ask honest Democrats, and they’ll tell you what I’m about to tell you: We’re rooting for Newt. The death penalty for marijuana? Replacing janitors with school kids? Mini...
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Finding the right candidate is complicatedJan 26, 2012 4:00 am - A longtime conservative friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: “Whoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president i...
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The odd new positives for RomneyJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation. The ar...
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Obama can’t celebrate just yetJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - When the polls closed in South Carolina on Saturday, I happened to be in a Charleston hotel lobby where elegantly dressed couples were filing past on their way to a blac...