Articles filed under Commentary
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Syria: It’s not just about freedomFeb 07, 2012 4:00 am - Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe fro...
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Primary purposesFeb 06, 2012 4:00 am - If the goal of the primary process is simply to nominate a candidate, essentially to nominate the man or woman most likely to win in the end, then this primary season sh...
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Bailing an ocean with a thimbleFeb 05, 2012 4:00 am - The worst day of Sugar Bear’s 55 years was one of the days — there have been many of them — when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whos...
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Western access to O’Hare? Don’t hold your breath.Feb 05, 2012 4:00 am - A week ago, I promised you a story on how the O’Hare International Airport western access plan morphed into the western bypass. It stemmed from a meeting among several m...
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The cost of conscienceFeb 05, 2012 4:00 am - Two of the top news stories of the past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman’s right to contraception ...
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Romney matches up well against Obama, if ...Feb 03, 2012 4:00 am - The granting of Secret Service protection following Mitt Romney’s decisive Florida victory did not prevent him from immediately shooting himself in the foot. “I’m not co...
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The fear of federal college loansFeb 03, 2012 4:00 am - If you’re not intimately familiar with the terrifying phrase “February is FAFSA time,” then you don’t have college-age kids. Or you’re wealthy enough to be unencumbered ...
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What Romney needs is a limpFeb 02, 2012 4:00 am - When a friend was writing a novel, he was concerned that his protagonist was too perfect. People can’t identify with perfection, he said. For the character to be sympath...
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Sensitivity played a role in this real-life mysteryFeb 01, 2012 11:00 pm - When 12-year-old Tarren Garcia missed his Bull Valley school bus last week but noticed a human skull lying in the grass near the stop, he stumbled into the kind of macab...
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Weakness is an invitation to warFeb 01, 2012 4:00 am - One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was “peace through strength.” Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the ...