Opinion Columns
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Coming soon: Blago, the one-man showJul 18, 2010 11:00 pm - The most anticipated performance of the summer will open this week in Chicago, but not on a screen or stage. The setting will be a courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Build...
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With no plan itself, GOP part of the problemJul 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Let's get this straight: The federal deficit is such a big crisis that we can't extend benefits for millions of Americans who are unemployed, many of them in danger of l...
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A Puerto Rican option for GOPJul 17, 2010 11:00 pm - A Republican governor - a very Republican governor - has an idea for solving one of his party's conundrums. The party should listen to Luis Fortuno, the Reaganite who re...
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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...