Opinion Columns
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The cartwheel imperativeJan 08, 2012 5:24 am - Here it is again, National Best Intentions Week — that’s how I describe the first few days of the new year when resolutions are still exciting and every workout place in...
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2012 goals: More webbing, mojoing, big-picturingJan 08, 2012 4:00 am - Ready for those New Year’s resolutions from your friendly DuPage editor? Actually, I’d like to share highlights from a goal-setting session. And because they involve you...
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Looking ahead to the second half of 2012Jan 07, 2012 11:00 pm - Thankfully, most memories are shorter than the six-day weather forecast. Weather predictions beyond that point are as helpful as a book on how to read. Trying to determ...
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Mapping out a sweet deal for DemocratsJan 06, 2012 4:00 am - More than 20 years ago I wrote an article for an academic journal on redistricting in Illinois. I said the driving forces behind this “most partisan act” were 1) territo...
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Search and destroy missionJan 06, 2012 4:00 am - DES MOINES — Mitt Romney and his backers decided that to win in Iowa they had to destroy Newt Gingrich’s campaign. Now Gingrich looks eager — and able — to return the fa...
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Ron Paul’s poison pillJan 05, 2012 4:00 am - Let us count the ways in which the nomination of Ron Paul would be groundbreaking for the GOP. No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused L...
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The Rubio factor for RomneyJan 05, 2012 4:00 am - The great thing about Iowa is that no matter whom the voters select in their neighborhood huddles, it doesn’t really matter. Placing in Iowa might land one a talk show (...
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The Justice Department’s identity problemJan 04, 2012 4:00 am - Is there, or should there ever be, a point when a state is no longer penalized for its discriminatory past? Not according to the Department of Justice, which has rejecte...
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‘Nuts’ to IranJan 04, 2012 4:00 am - When the Germans told Gen. Anthony McAuliffe to surrender his forces in Belgium during World War II, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division famously replied, “Nuts...
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Ringing in a conservative yearJan 03, 2012 4:00 am - Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current president, conservatives sho...