Opinion Columns
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A tactical retreat on health reformAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy - and half the mainstream m...
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Clean energy law would surely satisfy SaudisAug 01, 2009 11:00 pm - What's in a name? A bit of deception when it comes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act. A more accurate title might be: the American Clean Energy and Less Secu...
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Competition healthy when reformingAug 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Here's an irony for you: The health care bills in Congress are getting better, even as support for them diminishes around the country. It is just as well that President ...
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Politics needn't cloud judicial hearingsJul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - There was never much doubt that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed for the Supreme Court. Her inspiring personal biography and her evident legal credentials ensured that...
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Is 'white pride' source of pride or shame?Jul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Let me put it this way: Were I a driver in the demolition derby at the DuPage County Fair, would I put a sign bearing an iron cross and a painted "white pride" message o...
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Crucial dialogue on race is heightenedJul 29, 2009 11:00 pm - People say: Why are we still talking about Crowley and Gates? And then they commence to talk for 15 minutes about Crowley and Gates. The reason we persist is because the...
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Keeping things lively even in calm of summerJul 29, 2009 11:00 pm - It is 9:30 p.m. and Daily Herald reporter Christy Gutowski, already at the end of a long day of following courts in DuPage County, is banging out the lead to a scoop tha...
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What happens when Dugan the murderer asks for mercy?Jul 26, 2009 11:00 pm - • Brian Dugan, the child-killer who has played a leading role in more DuPage County elections than any candidate, is at it again. Dugan, serving two life sentences for m...
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Reality quashes the dream of ObamacareJul 26, 2009 11:00 pm - What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care ...
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Obama should take reform lesson from UtahJul 25, 2009 11:00 pm - In a way, it's too bad President Obama tapped Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to serve as ambassador to China. The ambassador-designee promised a Senate panel Thursday that, if c...