Opinion Columns
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Idiocy and meanness reaching new heights in the suburbsMar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Local, small town "governance" can sometimes be plagued by pettiness and a hunger for power that far outdistances the scope of any elective or appointed position. Now, t...
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Race between Clinton and Obama is about identity, not policyMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences between the two are...
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'Interference' can be found in so many interesting formsMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - You'd have thought I was asking for a copy of the "Pentagon Papers" or Prince Harry's latest military assignment. Nothing that interesting. Just a simple traffic ticket....
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Ferraro's foolish remarks contribute nothing to campaignMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - With an African-American male and a white female competing for the Democratic presidential nomination, we were sure to discuss affirmative action. And not in the conve...
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Don't count on Clinton, Obama being on same ticketMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the great surprises of my first presidential campaign, back in 1960, came on the final morning of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Cecil Holland...
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Bridging the generation gap with Pat BooneMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - How do you like the new mug shot of me? Hard to believe it's five years ago to the month that I started writing this column. Hard to believe, too, how my hair has gotten...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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A harsh and unfair portrayal of Israeli policyMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - As I wrote this, news was breaking that a Palestinian rocket attack on a college in Sderot, Israel had killed a 47-year-old father of four and wounded several others. It...
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Problematic issue of what to do about the embargo on CubaMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - On Dec. 29, 1962, 11 months before he was murdered by an advocate for Fidel Castro's regime (Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed propaganda on a New Orleans street for the...
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Make U of I officials explain themselves on veterans programMar 09, 2008 11:00 pm - It certainly wouldn't be as captivating as the hair-in-the-Coke questions that we enjoyed when Clarence Thomas was up for the U.S. Supreme Court. Nor would it be as thri...