Opinion Columns
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Governor borrows for his 'I will fight' speechDec 21, 2008 10:00 pm - He is a plagiarist too, our governor. As if the charges of snatching money from sick children and selling out Obama's legacy weren't bad enough. Now Rod R. has gone and ...
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Executive acts make Congress irrelevantDec 20, 2008 10:00 pm - A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch...
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Kennedy is more than just a nameDec 18, 2008 10:00 pm - In 1962, a young Massachusetts man who had barely passed the constitutional age barrier decided to run for the Senate. At the time, one of his brothers was president of ...
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Obama has not said enough about governor scandalDec 18, 2008 10:00 pm - It may be that neither President-elect Barack Obama nor anyone on his staff has anything to hide regarding the pay-to-play scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevic...
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Milorad moments add up to Illinois' great disgraceDec 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The world's most despicable villains always start small. In the burgeoning category of killers, Jeffrey Dahmer tortured squirrels and rabbits before moving up the food c...
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Political system may be Daschle's biggest obstacleDec 13, 2008 10:00 pm - On the same morning President-elect Barack Obama introduced Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader, as his prospective secretary of health and human services and...
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9,637 text messages: A Glen Ellyn affair to rememberDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Did they do anything wrong? Or perhaps the question would be better-phrased - wrong enough to warrant firing or a demotion? The attempted firing, then aborted demotion o...
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Illinois needs to expand ethics reformDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Rod Blagojevich was a scandal waiting to happen. When he was running for governor of Illinois for the first time in 2002, he had two impressive opponents in the Democrat...
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We lose a piece of our soul, but gain something, tooDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - At this point, it feels a bit awkward adding one's voice to the chorus of praises for Bob Frisk. The newspaper has editorialized about his 50-year career covering high s...
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Condemning Mugabe is not enoughDec 09, 2008 10:00 pm - What I would like to do - not that you've asked - is have a Predator drone circle over Robert Mugabe's luxurious villa until this monster of a dictator who has brought s...