Articles filed under Commentary
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Immigration: Getting it rightFeb 05, 2013 4:00 am - Immigration reform is coming. Let’s get it right. What counts as getting it wrong? The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, signed by President Reagan. It granted amnesty to the th...
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A solvable problemFeb 05, 2013 4:00 am - It was always clear that the 11 million people in this country without papers were not going to be rounded up and deported. The question was when our leaders would offic...
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Vacuums of sovereigntyFeb 04, 2013 4:00 am - Break out your pith helmet, wax your mustache and raise a toast at the club: The French have liberated Tombouctou. It seems like the headline from the age of imperialis...
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From I don’t to I doFeb 04, 2013 4:00 am - More than perhaps anyone else in America, David Blankenhorn personifies the struggle so many have experienced over same-sex marriage. First he was agnostic, then he was ...
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The price of moral grandstandingFeb 03, 2013 4:00 am - Politics becomes amusing when liberalism becomes theatrical with high-minded gestures. Chicago’s government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feelin...
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Kirk: My long walk back to the SenateFeb 02, 2013 5:00 pm - “Am I going to die today?” I asked Jay as we rode together in an ambulance through the streets of Chicago. Jay Alexander was my doctor but also my friend, and I knew he ...
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Obama’s test on immigrationFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - President Barack Obama has grown testy about reporters who have a “default position” that policy debates have two sides. “On almost every issue,” he recently told The Ne...
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Not all smiles on immigration reform?Feb 01, 2013 4:00 am - Such a happy scene: Republican senators grinning next to Democratic senators as though the debt-ceiling crisis, Obamacare and Sarah Palin never happened. The unifying ev...
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Remember also band director’s positive sideFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - In light of the allegations concerning former Libertyville High School band director Jeff Daeschler, we believe the public should hear the opinion of his former students...
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Protecting the currency of trust in all we publishJan 31, 2013 8:33 am - It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a web of deceit and plagiarism that cast a deep stain of doubt on the cr...