Opinion Columns
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What's up in Wheaton? We're wondering, tooOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Perhaps there's a logical reason for the lack of information from some of our leaders in Wheaton, but for now tongues are a-wagging all over town. People are abuzz over ...
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A question of health -- and equalityOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - My favorite moment so far in the health care debate was when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl argued against mandating maternity benefits as part of a basic insurance coverage. "I d...
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An opportunity for world to get to know ChicagoOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - He may have bigger challenges now and in years to come, but nothing will endear Barack Obama to some of us more than his decision to take a quick trans-Atlantic round tr...
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Constants, change in 16 years of Brown's caseSep 30, 2009 11:00 pm - So much changes in 16 years. So much stays the same. January 9, 1993, was a cold and snowy winter Saturday. Inside the Lattof YMCA in Des Plaines where I was taking my 3...
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The campaign is over, Mr. PresidentSep 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously ...
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Obama at war with his generalSep 28, 2009 11:00 pm - You can place a top general in Afghanistan, but you can't tell him what to think. Call that one of President Obama's first lessons as commander in chief. The person who ...
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Deception, lies accent work of radical MuslimsSep 28, 2009 11:00 pm - If you are an enemy of America seeking her destruction, you would add to your pursuit of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons the undermining of this nation from wit...
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Imagine if Games started in 7 days instead of 7 yearsSep 27, 2009 11:00 pm - MANALAPAN, Fla. - The Miami press corps isn't expecting an invitation to Michael Jordan's new hacienda for a last-minute Olympic announcement. There won't be any mojitos...
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Lindsay Lohan and the fashion crashSep 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Every time the economy swoons and the racks groan with the weight of unsold women's clothing, purveyors of fashion talk up "investment dressing." Investment dressing ent...
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Obama's foreign policy team clicksSep 26, 2009 11:00 pm - For President Obama, last week was rather like a major exam on his skills as a diplomat and architect of foreign policy. He can count on being tested again and again by ...