Opinion Columns
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Is it incompetence? Or ideology?Jun 12, 2011 12:00 am - The Republicans swept November’s midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyperliberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive go...
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Declare victory in Afghanistan and leaveJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - Slender threads of hope are nice but do not constitute a plan. Nor do they justify continuing to pour American lives and resources into the bottomless pit of Afghanistan...
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DuPage native son does us proud as tax watchdogJun 10, 2011 12:00 am - The joke around the newsroom goes something like this: “OK, who in DuPage is Jake gonna skewer next?” That's Jake Griffin, who formerly covered DuPage County government ...
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Confused on immigrationJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Last month, President Obama went to El Paso, Texas, to address the issue of immigration reform and reminded his audience that moving the debate forward “ultimately has t...
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Modifying the tax oathJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - The outcome of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD hung on the matter of a diphthong. The orthodox camp defended the doctrine of homoousios; Arians preferred homoiousios. Se...
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Travel through life; don’t run from itJun 09, 2011 6:00 pm - As a special-education student prone to severe emotional outbursts, Shelby Williams seemed an unlikely candidate to ever graduate from high school. Today, not only has t...
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Mr. Weiner, put up that wall!Jun 09, 2011 1:00 am - A New York Democrat has joined what had been a largely Republican caucus of congressmen committing sexually inappropriate online behavior. A picture of Rep. Anthony Wein...
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Modifying the tax oathJun 09, 2011 12:00 am - The outcome of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD hung on the matter of a diphthong. The orthodox camp defended the doctrine of homoousios; Arians preferred homoiousios. Se...
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Confused on immigrationJun 09, 2011 12:00 am - Last month, President Obama went to El Paso, Texas, to address the issue of immigration reform and reminded his audience that moving the debate forward “ultimately has t...
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For-profit ‘charter’ schoolsJun 08, 2011 4:00 am - Former tennis star Andre Agassi deserves enormous credit for recognizing that nothing is more important than ensuring every child gets the kind of quality education that...