Opinion Columns
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Two top-paid state hires on hot seat for U of I clout listMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - "The buck stops with Chancellor (Richard) Herman for the Urbana campus and with me for the entire University which includes the Urbana campus." Actually, a lot of bucks ...
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Criticize, then confirm SotomayorMay 31, 2009 11:00 pm - Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci. Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale)...
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Tangled web ties Obama, Reid, BurrisMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as Senate majority leader; the choice wasn't his. When the Illinois Democrat was elevated to the White H...
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Epiphanies rarely lead to bright ideasMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Epiphanies are a dime a dozen among congressional Democrats as they discover urgent new reasons to commandeer other people's money. For example, freshman Rep. Alan Grays...
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A wise person brings best view to Supreme CourtMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - So we face the riddle of the wise old man, the wise old woman, and the wise old person. Sonia Sotomayor, Bronx-raised and Ivy League-educated "Newyorkrican" has been nom...
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Is a hole-in-one front-page news? Maybe in NeighborMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - This just in to the newsroom: Dave Patton of Naperville scored his first hole-in-one on May 22. He used a 5 iron on the 174-yard 7th hole of Course No. 1 at St. Andrews ...
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Call, write, vote: But, above all, finish the jobMay 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Getting you information is our job. Doing something with it is yours. Nowhere is this generally unspoken compact between a newspaper and its readers more apparent than i...
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Nomination adds identity politics to supreme courtMay 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Responding to 19th-century rumors that they drank excessively, Supreme Court justices decided to drink nothing on conference days - unless it was raining. At the next co...
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The right choice, the right timeMay 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Judging from her inspiring personal story, her top-flight academic credentials, and what former colleagues and law clerks describe as both her intellect and - yes - her ...
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A modest proposal for where to house Gitmo detaineesMay 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Illinois has given America some big names over the years. Abe Lincoln, Jack Ruby, Barack Obama and Jenny McCarthy. And some big-time inventions. The department store, r...