Opinion Columns
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The mystery of Sonia SotomayorJul 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Doubtless thousands of other women's ears perked up when Sen. Charles Schumer, introducing Sonia Sotomayor at Monday's confirmation hearing, mentioned the Latina jurist'...
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Where will Father Fred go when he gets out of prison?Jul 12, 2009 11:00 pm - The acronym "NIMBY" (Not in My Back Yard) has become the catchall defense against new airports, homeless shelters, massage parlors, strip clubs, nuclear waste dumps and ...
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Obama's plumage, but at a priceJul 12, 2009 11:00 pm - The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine...
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Higher taxes for Stimulus III plan, anyone?Jul 11, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of th...
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What Palin can do to succeed in national politicsJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - The soon to be former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is like one of those souffles my mother sometimes made. The recipe warned against premature removal from the oven ...
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Musings on DuPage County's political landscapeJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Poor Joe Birkett. Wednesday just wasn't his day. That's what several of us were saying when news came down that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan - to many people's...
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Palin the pretender replaces the barracudaJul 09, 2009 11:00 pm - It's probably dangerous to admit to a moment of empathy. I'll either get disqualified from ever becoming being a Supreme Court justice or asked to turn in my press card....
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Lessons to learn from McNamara, PalinJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Two vastly different public officials - Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin - shared the spotlight this past week, triggering fresh thoughts about one of the classic dilemma...
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McNamara's assuredness continuesJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The death of Robert McNamara at 93 was less a faint reverberation of a receding era than a reminder that mentalities are the defining attributes of eras, and certain Ame...
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What if Palin had risen to power?Jul 07, 2009 11:00 pm - In his novel "The Plot Against America," Philip Roth imagined that Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist and an anti-Semite (but a heck of a flier), ran for president in 19...