Opinion Columns
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If tradition has it, Blago will invoke infallibility defenseJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - When it comes to Illinois political history, I side with Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens who said "The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." So no one should be surpr...
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A promise Obama must keepJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - While the nation remains preoccupied by the drama of the oil leak in the Gulf, which consumes an inordinate portion of time and attention in the media, a struggle of pot...
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BP's Mr. SunshineJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - How is it possible that BP chief executive Tony Hayward hasn't been fired? At this point, how can anyone believe a word the man says? If he told me my mother loves me, I...
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Prosperity-to-hysteria two-stepJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Jay Gould, a 19th-century railroad tycoon and unrepentant rapscallion, said he was a Democrat when in Democratic districts and a Republican when in Republican districts ...
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In pursuit of the almost famous in the suburbsJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Pop quiz time. Q. What do Glenn Kotche, Don Schulze, Keith Hackney and Mark Gorski have in common? (Though possibly true for some of you, the answer I'm looking for is n...
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'Climate change' is sinkingJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Three modern myths have been sold to the American people: the promise of a transparent administration (President Obama); the promise of a more ethical Congress (Speaker ...
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Let's hope trial offers some truth plus excitementJun 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Somehow it doesn't seem like it's been so long waiting for the start of the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial. Maybe it's because the former governor never really went aw...
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Obama 'likes to smoke a couple cigarettes' before flyingMay 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The reason there is no such thing as an "ex-Marine" is because they are the best of the best, toughest of the tough, etc. of the etc. Despite that, I became concerned ab...
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Frugality theaterMay 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama, an unbeliever genuflecting before the altar of frugality, is asking Congress, as presidents do, to give him something like a line-item veto. Coming in toda...
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Political 'wisdom' and expiration datesMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Much of political wisdom consists simply of understanding and acknowledging which subjects and practices are off limits. Yes, I know, to some people the very term "polit...