Opinion Columns
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City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in terrorist styleDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - As snowfall turns our landscape into a gleaming, crystal masterpiece, there are some who see only darkness. They want to break the silent night with agonizing screams fr...
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Teenagers and the war on terrorDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Defenders of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the teenager accused of plotting to bomb a tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore., are already arguing to the press that he was set...
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America's reality show: gloom and doomDec 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, a...
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Why trouble ourselves with Russia now?Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - The Framers of the Constitution, a nuisance regretted by most modern presidents, gave the legislative branch -- another indignity inflicted on presidents, as they see it...
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American Dream is not all about moneyDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - We always talk about the American Dream -- about living it, saving it, wondering what happened to it. Few bother to define it. The stereotype shows a single-family hous...
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OK, candidates, fork over those e-mail addressesDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - OK, here we go again. Didn't we just finish with an election? I know we must have, as our new DuPage County Board chairman, Dan Cronin, will be sworn in Monday night. Bu...
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Pulled in two directions? Then go with your beliefsNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Q. My boyfriend and I have been dating for five years. He bought a house in June. Last weekend, he proposed to me and we plan on getting married next year. His pare...
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A step toward solving the fiscal messNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - The two-day delay until Friday that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson obtained before their debt-management commission decides on their tough-medicine recommendations may ...
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After WikiLeaks, Bush should rethink book tourNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Say what you want about WikiLeaks -- and I don't much like what it has done -- it nevertheless would be useful for its founder, Julian Assange, to follow George W. Bush ...
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Needed: a part-time CongressNov 29, 2010 10:00 pm - “I wanted the music to play on forever. Have I stayed too long at the fair?#8221; Barbra Streisand lyric The finding by the bipartisan House Ethics Committee...