Opinion Columns
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Mrs. Keigher's sixth graders provide some hope for the futureMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Perhaps there is hope for kids. And newspapers. The two often don't go hand in hand. More so than ever, we keep hearing about how young people don't read newspapers. A c...
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Indiana, North Carolina primaries much too muchMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The endless Democratic presidential campaign has lurched from irrelevance to trivia, triggering a near-universal call to bring it to a halt. The two states that voted o...
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Lesson in 'urgency' is as valuable now as it was 40 years agoMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - As the news format evolves on dailyherald.com, I'm reminded every day that it's urgency that drives it all. When I'm down, you always comfort me When I'm lonely, you se...
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March toward the right kind of immigration reformMay 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A lot of Americans can't get their head around the concept of illegal immigrants demanding civil rights from a country whose laws they've broken. After all, these are pe...
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Can Clinton win without hurting the Democratic Party?May 05, 2008 11:00 pm - On the day last week when Hillary Clinton suffered the first of two costly defections by Indiana superdelegates, I went to see an old friend working in her national camp...
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Expanded presidential war powers began with TrumanMay 05, 2008 11:00 pm - INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Business, meaning research by historians and nourishment for history hobbyists, is brisk at the Harry S Truman Library on this 60th anniversary of t...
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What would life in Gov. Antoin Rezko's Illinois be like?May 04, 2008 11:00 pm - If the formerly mustachioed Antoin "Tony" Rezko had actually been elected governor of Illinois instead of merely ascending to the post of faux governor as federal prosec...
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Obama renouncement of Wright looks blatantly expedientMay 03, 2008 11:00 pm - "I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18 WASHINGTON -- Guess it's time to disow...
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Republicans not eager to see checks go out with equal payMay 01, 2008 11:00 pm - By now the Tale of Lilly Ledbetter is beginning to sound like the Perils of Pauline or the Pre-Feminist Follies. At 70 years old, she's the star of a long-running drama ...
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Say a prayer for our National Day of Prayer?May 01, 2008 11:00 pm - As this is written, I've seen about 1.5 of the three stories we're doing on the myriad National Day of Prayer services throughout DuPage County. I think my favorite will...