Opinion Columns
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How to deal with the new Illinois ban on texting while drivingDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - If you drive in Chicago and believe this week is the last fling for texting-while-at-the-wheel, think again. Surprise! It has been illegal for more than a year to send a...
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A warning Obama should heedDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a his...
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Quietly sizing up the last four decadesDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It is one of those moments when I feel like a time traveler. I look out the airplane window and watch a young woman on the tarmac directing our jet to its gate. As she w...
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The Grinch who stole immigration reformDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Just in time for the holidays, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given Latino voters a valuable gift: clarity. So much of politics is masked in smoke and mirrors. If you co...
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The emptiness of double triumphsDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would...
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Jesus the socialistDec 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Apparently not content with his congressional majority that wishes to force Americans on a long march to health care disaster, President Obama has invoked the name of Je...
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Rome's call: 'Come on over'Dec 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending mass at a Southern California church, the congregation of which soon became Spanish-speaking. Se...
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At the window, hopeDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - From the 14th floor of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, I could look across the East River to much of Brooklyn and Queens. Behind me in the hospital bed was the woman I l...
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One is the loneliest numberDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand up and defen...
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Merely mortal Obama inventing himselfDec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health care reform bill -- and...