Opinion Columns
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Do you want to be defined by denim?Apr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested w...
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Yet another chance to sound off on Ayers non-visitApr 16, 2009 11:00 pm - The scheduled visit of former/possible/unrepentent terrorist Bill Ayers to Naperville North High School and Anderson's Bookshops hit on the eve of the local elections. ...
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U.S.-Mexico summit features familiar issuesApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Change is the buzzword on both sides of the border. But how much has really changed? Twenty years ago, when President George H.W. Bush hosted President Carlos Salinas de...
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Heroes among us illuminate an often bleak worldApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But do not let this blind you to what virtue there is. Many people strive for high ideals, ...
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It seems we have a bipartisan lock on les faux pasApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - About that bow. Did he or didn't he - the president of the United States, that is - bow to Saudi King Abdullah in a deferential greeting? And, if he did, is it of great ...
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Bush sure left a Texas-sized legacyApr 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Bush's tenure was truly remarkable. He left office with the lowest poll ratings in 60 years, two wars begun and not ended, and the deepest recession since the Great Depr...
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Taliban, the Sequel brings real-life horrorsApr 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe it was the sex that caught our attention. The lead of the story, after all, was that any Shiite woman in Afghanistan would be required by law "to fulfill the sexua...
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Constitution doesn't support Illinois policyApr 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Rampant redistribution of wealth by government is now the norm. It inflames government's natural rapaciousness and subverts the rule of law. This degeneration of governa...
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Secure border benefits both U.S., MexicoApr 12, 2009 11:00 pm - It's not unusual for a U.S. ambassador to be witness to history. But, as U.S. ambassador to Mexico the last six years, Tony Garza was able to witness - and, some say, he...
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It's your country too, Mr. PresidentApr 11, 2009 11:00 pm - In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch ...