Articles filed under Commentary
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20 years later, we haven’t learnedJan 08, 2013 4:00 am - On the 20th anniversary of the Brown’s Chicken massacre in Palatine, what has changed? Our innocence was lost after seven people were murdered that snowy January night. ...
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The politics of protecting the middle classJan 08, 2013 4:00 am - Defeat is usually an orphan. This one had many proud fathers. In the “fiscal cliff” agreement, President Barack Obama secured his vanishingly narrow electoral mandate t...
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Of plots and clotsJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism. This time it’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose ...
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Left should know, Obama did goodJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - To my friends on the left: This one’s for you. Your grumbling that President Obama again gave away the store to Republicans is unwarranted. The deal to evade the fiscal...
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Notre Dame and the sports-academia complexJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared to the a...
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Republicans adriftJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 11, a mere five days after the presidential election, the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam pushed off from Fort Lauderdale for a Caribbean jaunt. Aboard were nearly 6...
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Lawmakers, here's a bill you really could get behindJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Excerpt from an official, top-secret, confidential internal memo I fired off to the bosses this past week: “This is too late to help us this time around, but I think we ...
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Why the pension cost shift and HB 6258 make senseJan 04, 2013 4:00 am - Editor’s note: Two suburban lawmakers wrote differering opinions about a pension proposal for the reform group Reboot Illinois. State Rep. Darlene Senger, a Naperville R...
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Take care before shifting pension burden to property taxpayersJan 04, 2013 4:00 am - Editor’s note: Two suburban lawmakers wrote differering opinions about a pension proposal for the reform group Reboot Illinois. State Rep. Darlene Senger, a Naperville R...
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The anatomy of a distinction on lame-duck votesJan 03, 2013 7:57 am - In a literal sense, lame ducks ought to be easy targets. By definition — assuming one is willing to tolerate the insensitive term lame duck over the more compassionate a...