Opinion Columns
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Deem and pass sounds more like sneak and springMar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, i...
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Dancing with the staff for volunteersMar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Actual newsroom memo: Editorial Staff: Does anyone out there like "Dancing With The Stars?" Wait, let me rephrase that: Who out there doesn't like "Dancing With The Star...
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Let's rid Illinois of these two evilsMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th century Florentine philosopher, wrote in his political masterpiece "The Prince," "if evils are anticipated they can easily be remedied but ...
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Protests may be public, but they're not always newsMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - One of the great qualities of this country is that everyone has a right to speak his mind. Another is that not everyone has to be heard all the time. For a newspaper, na...
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It's time to be more private in New JerseyMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - New Jersey's new Republican governor, Chris Christie, is creating a commission that will recommend what state government functions could be done better - and cheaper - b...
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This is no way to a two-state solutionMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - What can you say about a 19-year-old woman who participates in a terrorist attack in which 38 people, 13 of them children, are killed? The answer, if the woman is Palest...
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In praise of the rotation of powerMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - As the Afghanistan War intensifies - Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops - it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's bec...
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Government is crazy to sell unsafe trailersMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is making a big health care mistake. I'm not talking about the final push for comprehensive reform legislation, which is righteous ...
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Illinois budget mess may require futile, stupid gestureMar 14, 2010 11:00 pm - The film opens with two men in need of hairline plugs and wearing dark suits seated uncomfortably close to each other in the formerly smoke-filled backroom of a state of...
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Professor Gonzales' critiqueMar 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Some civil libertarians have finally figured out that on the question of how Barack Obama's anti-terrorism policies compare to those of George W. Bush, "hope and change"...