Opinion Columns
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Beware the four-part Obama stingApr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University last week, Barack Obama prom...
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Yes Virginia, there is a Crook CountyApr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - The first time I saw the term "Crook County" was more than 25 years ago. Some shady judges and greaseball lawyers had just been indicted on federal corruption charges in...
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Unions are changing, state by stateApr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - They are not the only married couple in America who talk about taxes and ulcers in the same sentence. Nor are they the only couple who believe they are paying more than ...
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Do you want to be defined by denim?Apr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested w...
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Yet another chance to sound off on Ayers non-visitApr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - The scheduled visit of former/possible/unrepentent terrorist Bill Ayers to Naperville North High School and Anderson's Bookshops hit on the eve of the local elections. ...
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U.S.-Mexico summit features familiar issuesApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Change is the buzzword on both sides of the border. But how much has really changed? Twenty years ago, when President George H.W. Bush hosted President Carlos Salinas de...
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Heroes among us illuminate an often bleak worldApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But do not let this blind you to what virtue there is. Many people strive for high ideals, ...
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It seems we have a bipartisan lock on les faux pasApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - About that bow. Did he or didn't he - the president of the United States, that is - bow to Saudi King Abdullah in a deferential greeting? And, if he did, is it of great ...
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Bush sure left a Texas-sized legacyApr 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Bush's tenure was truly remarkable. He left office with the lowest poll ratings in 60 years, two wars begun and not ended, and the deepest recession since the Great Depr...
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Taliban, the Sequel brings real-life horrorsApr 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe it was the sex that caught our attention. The lead of the story, after all, was that any Shiite woman in Afghanistan would be required by law "to fulfill the sexua...