Articles filed under Commentary
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The media’s religion deficitMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - Evidence of big media’s bias against religion that doesn’t advance the secular and liberal agenda of the Democratic Party is beyond dispute. Any faith attached to a cons...
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Make education funding a priorityMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - This is a very exciting time for education, and yet a very difficult time. We have seen some of the most incredible changes in education ever take place in a very short ...
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Europe still remembers America’s fallenMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - On the eve of last year’s Memorial Day, I traveled to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten to pay my respects to my great-uncle from Chicago, Anton Dietzen, wh...
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Why Bain questions matterMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fel...
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The United States of GamblingMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - A surprising fact: Gamblers spent more last year at commercial casinos in Indiana than they did at non-Indian casinos in all but three other states — not surprisingly, N...
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Real pension reform means structural changeMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - The time for meaningful action on Illinois’ pension problem is now. The billions of dollars that saddle the state with a pension albatross cannot be solved by shifting t...
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The Mitt you see is what you getMay 23, 2012 5:00 am - For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there’s just as good a chance he would be ta...
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The citizen and the governmentMay 22, 2012 5:00 am - In Aesop’s fable “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summ...
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Grief is not a mental illnessMay 21, 2012 9:36 am - We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief. The intense sadness following loss of a loved one still occupies a warm spot in our cul...
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A whiff of ‘hope and change’May 21, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice. It is also a bold political gambit...