Opinion Columns
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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...
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Writers show how debate can be lively, civil at same timeApr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - It is more art than science to apply subjective rules about sensitivity in monitoring readers' passions. My column last week about the rudeness of many who comment about...
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Wright is on center stage - to the delight of Obama's opponentsApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Because John McCain and other legislators worry that they are easily corrupted, there are legal limits to the monetary contributions that anyone can make to political ca...
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In taking offense, it is not always what is said, but the way it is heardApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - George Bernard Shaw said England and America were two countries separated by a common language. Richard Cohen says that white and black Americans are in a similar fix. S...