Opinion Columns
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Is this really the best McCain can do?Oct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, an irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or ...
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It's not the race but the campaign that bears watching nowOct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It is impossible at this point to imagine an election campaign without public polling. Polls have become as much a part of the process as fouls are to an NBA basketball ...
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Chicago cop's story reveals heart of departmentOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Daily Herald: "Violent crime on the rise in Chicago." ABC 7: "Third Chicago policeman killed since July." With nerve-rattling news headlines like those, who would ever w...
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Debate puts end to battle of the sexesOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - So this is what they mean by the soft bigotry of low expectations. The long drumbeat that led to the vice presidential debate suggested it would be a matchup between an ...
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Cool, collected scores after costly fumbleOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pa...
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McCain would be foolish to keep Palin hiddenOct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS - The McCain campaign, perhaps fearful of the reviews Sarah Palin would receive for her part in Thursday night's debate here, deployed a trio of almost-vice-pr...
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Palin was terrific, but is she ready?Oct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - What did they do with the other Sarah Palin? I mean the one who bases foreign policy experience on the proximity of Russia to Alaska and who speaks cutely a...
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Can't beat fun at the ol' mayor's office, newsroomOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - You can barely contain the excitement in the newsroom. I'm referring, of course, to the relaxing of the dress code that allows the staff to wear Cubs or Sox regalia. Acc...
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History shows us crisis is cultural, not just financialOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - It comforts me that Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and an architect of the financial bailout plan the House rejected Monday, is a specialist in the ...
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Stories not always 'news,' but they can enhance itOct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - "And this is a story, why?" writes a Web commenter following our report on a party at a Buffalo Grove home to watch last Friday night's presidential debate. It's a fair ...