Opinion Columns
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What kind of America do we want?Apr 18, 2011 11:00 pm - It was refreshing to hear all those unambiguous declarations during President Obama’s speech last week. “I will not” let Medicare become a voucher program or deprive fam...
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Rejection just a part of lifeApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - It’s that time of year again, the time of year when high school seniors who have done everything right their whole lives discover that it wasn’t good enough to get them ...
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Obama’s grand repositioningApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - Intentional or not, it sizzled with symbolism that President Obama announced his re-election campaign the same day his administration threw in the towel on the closing o...
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The parental factor in evaluating teachersApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - The student arrived late to the honor roll ceremony at my son's middle school last week. Even though it was almost over, the teaching staff graciously presented him with...
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School lunches and the nanny stateApr 17, 2011 2:00 am - Back in the Stone Age, I brought my noon meal to school in a Davy Crockett lunchbox. It was made of cheap metal, and had I eaten it, the taste would have been similar to...
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Township critics aren't aware of servicesApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - By Gerry Bartnicke I have been reading articles and letters concerning consolidation of local governments, including suggestions that we should do away with townships. I...
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A few more details on Bob Woodward's visit to LisleApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - “Nice job on the Woodward call-in,” I told staff writer Marco Santana, about his deadline story on Watergate legend Bob Woodward's appearance at Benedictine College in L...
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'Atlas' still valid in today's politicsApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - Twenty-nine years after her death, novelist Ayn Rand is coming to a theater near you. After many failed attempts, her 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” has been made into a fi...
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A stunning message on teen-pregnancyApr 13, 2011 12:00 am - By Froma Harrop America's tailspin toward the cultural abyss has gained speed with an ad featuring single-mother celebrity Bristol Palin. Bloggers unfriendly to her moth...
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Crazy talk is today's political currencyApr 13, 2011 12:00 am - Far-right Republicans are winning the budget wars because they understand something that nobody else in Washington seems to grasp: The old truism about politics being th...