Opinion Columns
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Torture is still tortureMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - It wasn’t torture that revealed Osama bin Laden’s hiding place. Finding and killing the world’s most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and do...
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Working up a tax stormMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - Tim Storm, an Illinois businessman until a few weeks ago, is now a Wisconsin businessman. Herewith a story about how states can reduce revenues by trying to increase the...
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Refuse to burden the helpless among usMay 08, 2011 12:00 am - Perhaps Abraham Lincoln said it best: “The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do, at all, o...
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Tough times for momsMay 08, 2011 12:00 am - Hug a mother or grandmother extra tight today because no amount of pink carnations and chocolate can possibly make up for how tough moms have it in this country. OK, ce...
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Peering onto the New Hampshire tea leavesMay 05, 2011 2:00 am - MANCHESTER, N.H. — The sudden end of Osama bin Laden’s career of homicide does not ensure President Obama’s re-election. But it does remove an obstacle. On foreign polic...
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Bin Laden already was stoppedMay 05, 2011 2:00 am - The big story was that they got him, not that he was stopped. Osama bin Laden was already stopped. Sure, the al-Qaida movement could still massacre Christians at a Bagh...
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Naperville principal gives scoop on ditch dayMay 05, 2011 12:00 am - Here’s living proof no good deed goes unpunished. City Editor Bob Smith had talked to a few Naperville Central High School theater students for stories we were doing. So...
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The other big news about bin LadenMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - The big news is not that Osama bin Laden is dead. I mean, that is certainly big news, but a guy in hiding who has a record price tag on his head is not exactly an effect...
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It takes a local touch to bring a global story homeMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - “This,” said Executive Editor Madeleine Doubek to a meeting of Daily Herald editors planning stories for Tuesday's editions on the killing of Osama bin Laden, “is one of...
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In changing times, what is NATO’s purpose?May 03, 2011 12:00 am - Osama bin Laden’s death was announced by the president on May 1, a date that once had worldwide significance on the Revolutionary calendar of communism, which was Americ...