Opinion Columns
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U of I still haunted by ghosts of corruptionOct 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Just in time for Halloween, two new ghosts are haunting the University of Illinois. These new ghosts aren't invisible, like the legendary hobgoblin in the campus Englis...
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A new lightning rod for RepublicansOct 24, 2009 11:00 pm - When Marcus Bachmann came home that Saturday evening in 2000 he checked the telephone answering machine and was mystified by the many messages congratulating his wife fo...
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'America's Best Idea' meets one of the worstOct 24, 2009 11:00 pm - The Ken Burns series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" got me thinking about one of America's worst ideas, the war on drugs. Particularly ill-conceived is the cr...
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Work with, not against, the pressOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the "c...
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Do all seniors need this? It's the $250 questionOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - This story begins, as do so many dramas, at the box office. We are standing in line, three generations defined by a three-tier price structure: senior, adult, child. Thi...
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When the news hits close to home ... learn from itOct 22, 2009 11:00 pm - There was some human drama that we didn't get to in Wednesday's Page 1 story on a fire that displaced about 30 people from Royal Glen Condominiums near Glen Ellyn. Allow...
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Another entitlement for seniorsOct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Three years before Rep. Wilbur Mills, the Arkansas Democrat who then chaired the Ways and Means Committee, had his fling with a stripper named Fanne Foxe, aka "The Argen...
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Does anyone know Barack Obama?Oct 21, 2009 11:00 pm - If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the People...
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'The way it is'Oct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - "That's just the way it is. Some things will never change . . ." (Bruce Hornsby song lyric) The Washington Post headline sounds as if a comedy writer, or someone fluent ...
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Send out the clownsOct 19, 2009 11:00 pm - As the war of words escalates between conservative gabmeisters and the White House, Americans might pause to wonder: Have we lost our minds? On any given day, life in th...