Opinion Columns
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The meaning of BrownJan 24, 2010 10:00 pm - On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform...
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Mandate to moderateJan 23, 2010 10:00 pm - Churchill's wife said that his being turned out of office by British voters in July 1945 - the war in the Pacific still raged, and he had just returned from the Potsdam ...
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Should the Glen Ellyn park board have said 'no'?Jan 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Just say no. That's what some Glen Ellyn park commissioners will tell you the board should have said when the citizenry started asking for more amenities in their new re...
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'We the people' still appliesJan 21, 2010 10:00 pm - In his first comment following Scott Brown's stunning victory in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, President Obama tol...
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Get full context of coverage of political racesJan 20, 2010 10:00 pm - Some random thoughts on primary election coverage: First and most important, you should know that our online report now includes an easy link to our coverage of all race...
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For Obama, it's the economyJan 19, 2010 10:00 pm - As Barack Obama nears the first anniversary of his inauguration as president, a faculty friend of mine renders what strikes me as the right assessment: "If he were a stu...
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'I am the prevailing winds'Jan 18, 2010 10:00 pm - Let me introduce myself. I am Harold Gillibrand or maybe I'm Kirsten Ford, a blending of the Democrats who want to be the next elected senator from New York. I am runnin...
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The British (elections) are comingJan 18, 2010 10:00 pm - BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - The new year kicked-off an election campaign for prime minister of the United Kingdom with a series of soap opera events that grabbed headlin...
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Governator is changing his tuneJan 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Et tu, Arnold? California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is usually a kinder, gentler Republican when it comes to immigrants. So what a shame that Schwarzenegger would, in h...
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Why Haiti matters found in story of MollyJan 17, 2010 10:00 pm - A million people homeless, 300,000 children parentless, crops destroyed, the nation overrun by malaria and other deadly diseases and all major roads and bridges gone. Th...