Opinion Columns
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Bolingbrook-by-the-Sea no longer aproposJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Gasp! Did you hear the news? Bolingbrook is a better place to live than Naperville. In fact, it's the best place to live in Illinois, 43rd best in the nation, leaving it...
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The law, opinion polls and the definition of marriageJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed by Congress (427 members voted in favor) and signed into law by President Clinton in 1...
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For some, manufacturing can be a marvelous careerJul 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The United States has shed 2 million factory jobs since 2007, yet many American companies can't find qualified workers to fill their available openings. That's a shockin...
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Hope amid budget gloomJul 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Sometimes you can see events in Washington more clearly when you get out of town. Before I came here last weekend to cover the annual summer meeting of the National Gove...
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Pit bulls, elephants and grizzlies, oh my!Jul 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin, the ubiquitous enchantress of the disenchanted, may not have been ready to lead the free world when John McCain anointed her as his running mate. But she's ...
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It is Obama's war nowJul 13, 2010 11:00 pm - "Facts are the enemy of truth," Don Quixote tweeted so very long ago - and as if to prove his point, the Democratic Party in all its tawdry glory unloosed a barrage of f...
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The right stuff goes wrongJul 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Silly me. I thought America's unparalleled space program (before the current administration began dismantling it) was a triumph of American ingenuity, technology, vision...
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The selective modesty of Barack ObamaJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as e...
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When Blagojevich saw himself destined to be presidentJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - After hearing Milorad Blagojevich's world views so fluently expressed on FBI tape recordings, it is much easier to accept the plot of "Transformers 3," currently being f...
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To mock a heroJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Fifty years ago Sunday, a novel hit America's bookshelves that changed the way millions thought about race and the inexplicable South. Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbi...