Opinion Columns
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Tom Watson, Titans stand up for the geezersAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - No, this isn't another column about golf, but I would like to mention 59-year-old Tom Watson's heroic near-win at the British Open a couple weeks ago. I'm guessing there...
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Local news is daily devotion of the Daily HeraldAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Local. Every day. Everywhere. It's not yet a Daily Herald slogan, but it could be. Managing Editor Madeleine Doubek informally coined the phrase this week as a group of ...
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Dugan is bottom feeder of criminal societyAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - We don't let prisoners pick their punishment in this country. And we don't let those being punished pick their prisons. The crooks and the connivers ask, of course, espe...
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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...