Articles filed under Commentary
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Missing a tax reform movementJan 29, 2011 11:00 pm - While I was out ill for six weeks in December and January, the world changed. Before that, the White House had badly misjudged the political climate. When I went to Ohio...
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The mystique of the word exceptionalismJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - He didn't say it. That word: “exceptional.” Barack Obama described an exceptional nation in his State of the Union address, but he studiously avoided using the word cons...
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The curse of good intentionsJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - When the subject is race or ethnicity, conservatives usually flunk the course. Their modus operandi is to use minorities as foils, all to get the votes of white people. ...
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Speech no cover for true Obama agendaJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - In his State of the Union address, President Obama at times sounded like he was channeling Ronald Reagan: cutting the deficit, hailing private enterprise and individual ...
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GOP pledge is looking more like a fantasyJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - Despite what you might have heard, the coming battle on Capitol Hill is not really about “government spending” in the abstract. It's about two radically different vision...
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Symbiosis between press, sports is not always comfortableJan 25, 2011 11:00 pm - By Jim Slusher Among many other things related to Jay Cutler’s knee, Chicago Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo talked Monday about the media. “You have got jobs to do. ...
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Education's single goal post theoryJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - “Since 1995 the average mathematics score for fourth-graders jumped 11 points. At this rate we catch up with Singapore in a little over 80 years ... assuming they don't ...
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Jeff Engelhardt advocates forgiveness, not death penaltyJan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Jeff Engelhardt is an intern in the Daily Herald's Springfield bureau and a graduate student at the University of Illinois-Springfield, enrolled in it...
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The perils of the outrage industryJan 24, 2011 11:00 pm - As a longtime champion of greater civility in public discourse and one who has led the charge for dialed-back rhetoric, may I respectfully take most of it back? OMG, as...
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A growing cast of conformists for GOP in 2012Jan 23, 2011 11:00 pm - Herman Cain is thinking of running for president. I learned this from an article by Dan Balz, The Washington Post's chief political correspondent, so I know it's true. C...