Opinion Columns
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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...
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Putting teeth into Medicare reformJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Americans are familiar with - if not altogether comfortable about - nonelected officials exercising great authority over our lives. The nine justices on the Supreme Cour...
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'Killdozer' is one fair demolition derby driverJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - What could be a better newspaper marketing opportunity than to get behind guys with such names as "Killdozer," "Crusher" and "Butcher?" Guys who drive like maniacs in a ...
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The true impact of the Cronkite factorJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - There was something about Uncle Walt. He was so ... avuncular. Cronkite became the most trusted man in television precisely because he seemed so grown up. T...
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The moon and a passion we forgotJul 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Michael Crichton once wrote that if you had told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), "trav...
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Were you a Cronkite-man or a Chancellor-man?Jul 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Dennis Kauff was a Cronkite man. His goal was to work with Walter Cronkite. And then replace him. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to do either. In 1985, 10 years after ...
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A ploy to clip some wingsJul 18, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - How does the Obama administration love organized labor? Let us count the ways it uses power to repay unions for helping to put it in power. It has given the...
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Battle will continue between GOP and Obama's choicesJul 16, 2009 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - The combination of an over-rehearsed witness and opposition senators fighting without much ammunition robbed the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings of th...