Opinion Columns
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The last of the doughboys from World War IMay 25, 2008 11:00 pm - CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the mil...
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This should be America's greatest national holidayMay 25, 2008 11:00 pm - DEATH NOTICE -- Day, M. Born May 30, 1868, in Waterloo, NY. Died from neglect and a broken heart. Survived by mother freedom and millions of people who enjoy long weeken...
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Breaking from the embrace of diversity at start of campaignMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Is there anyone who still remembers the folksy winter tableau? Eight Democratic candidates against the picturesque backdrop of Iowa and New Hampshire. It was a feel-good...
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Why it's becoming more and more all about youMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The pitch that came to Assistant City Editor Anne Halston was probably not unlike hundreds she has gotten in her 13 years as an editor at the Daily Herald. It went somet...
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Ted Kennedy is one-of-a-kind as an influential leaderMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struc...
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Scrapbook time of year for parents is good news for us allMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Individually, graduates may be experiencing the raw ache of 'last times' for so many activities, but collectively, they remind us of an important cycle of life When you ...
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Clinton shows future presidential stuff in her refusal to quit the raceMay 19, 2008 11:00 pm - The New York Times recently ran down the list of women who might someday become the nation's first female president. Out of both courtesy and caution, it included Hillar...
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Republicans have their work cut out for themMay 18, 2008 11:00 pm - One way of measuring the current miserable state of the Republican Party is to note that in the past 10 weeks, 55 years of Republican seniority in the House of Represent...
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Taking on the governor, the mayor and ComEdMay 18, 2008 11:00 pm - • Gov. Rod Blagojevich's name continues to grace one of the most irritating aspects of life in Illinois: the tollways. If the General Assembly really wants to stick it t...
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Wary of government entering into the housing crisis businessMay 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve...