Opinion Columns
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King, in word and stoneAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at every hinge ...
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Sharia law and the future of LibyaAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - Name a single Arab or Islamic state, which, after a revolution that has overthrown a dictator, came to embrace political pluralism, religious tolerance and equal rights ...
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MLK’s vision of justiceAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - As the nation honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a stirring new memorial on the National Mall, let’s not obscure one of his most important messages in a fog of ...
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National attention foisted on Glen EllynAug 28, 2011 12:00 am - In the past week, it’s been all about Glen Ellyn. OK, maybe a little bit about Wheaton. Oh, let’s throw Carol Stream in there, too. Consider all that transpired: 타 Class...
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The killing at the cornerAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - When I drove by my corner grocery store last Sunday, the crime tape had already gone up and half a dozen police cars were parked in front. By the time I drove back home ...
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Liberals’ Wisconsin WaterlooAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — The residues of liberalism’s Wisconsin Woodstock — 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities — ar...
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‘Enforcement’ of immigration laws already hereAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - Have you noticed that our immigration laws are finally being enforced? That illegal immigration is way down? That employers hiring undocumented workers are finally being...
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Why juvenile offenders need ‘aftercare’Aug 25, 2011 12:00 am - The heart-wrenching Daily Herald series recounting the 2008 attack on Elgin High School teacher Carolyn Gilbert has taken its readers to places few of us can imagine and...
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Rick Perry should stop and thinkAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Whatever global warming might or might not have done to polar bears, it has put Rick Perry’s presidential candidacy at risk. The Texas governor clings to an ice floe of ...
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Tea party holy warAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Evangelicals, warned liberal theologian Albert Outler, “want a society ruled by those who know what the word of God is. The technical name for that is ‘theocracy,’ and t...