Opinion Columns
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Vilsack a man of ideasAug 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Over the years, reporters learn that there are a relative handful of the public officials with whom we deal who can be counted on to expand our understanding of events. ...
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Harry Reid and racist comments must goAug 15, 2010 11:00 pm - On behalf of all Hispanics, let me just say this: Muchas gracias, Harry Reid. These days, many Americans are pressed for time. So I was glad to hear that the Senate maj...
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Mosque should avoid sacrilege at Ground ZeroAug 13, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there o...
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Friends on fringe give GOP plenty to worry aboutAug 13, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - The Republican Party's candidate for governor of Colorado believes that bicycle paths are "part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a Uni...
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Mission accomplished IIAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama claims to have kept his campaign promise to cease American combat operations (though not U.S. troop presence) in Iraq by the end of this month. But it's ...
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Dog-team's days of summer test a fan's loyaltyAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - DuPage City Editor Bob Smith stopped by my office Wednesday with an important announcement. He was off Thursday and headed to the White Sox game. He and his wife were ma...
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Political maxim: Cut spending, but not in my stateAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Meet Robert Gates, also known as The Leading Indicator. The defense secretary, who is noted among his colleagues for his special closeness with President Ob...
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The lives of bugs and trees as well as cats and dogsAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - People don't like bugs. They like to read about bugs though. It's not that we're all a bunch of budding entomologists. Most of us, I suspect, are much more interested in...
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In Churchill's spiritAug 10, 2010 11:00 pm - JERUSALEM - Two photographs adorn the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less ali...
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McConnell's birthright curveAug 09, 2010 11:00 pm - It was an odd but intriguing experience to sit at a press breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor last week and listen as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel...