Articles filed under Commentary
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Mixed messages on AfghanistanOct 02, 2010 11:00 pm - From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, Commander In Chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But ...
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'Convicted?' and other key questions for candidatesSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The letter, from a regular contributor to our Fence Post column, provided some encouragement and some gentle prodding. In it, writer Edna Heatherington of Glen Ellyn not...
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Rules and regs, cities and small townsSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - After living in New York City for a few weeks, I've reached a few conclusions about the great political divide in America. As Barack Obama told us at the Democratic con...
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Why Superman has left the school buildingSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - "Waiting for Superman" is the new film by documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of "An Inconvenient Truth," and it should be mandatory viewing for every membe...
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What about California's Meg?Sep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - This is supposed to be the year of the (Republican) woman. It is most certainly the year of millionaire business execs no one ever heard of a month or two ago giving Dem...
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Immigration debate no laughing matterSep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - There's a great scene at the end of the film "And Justice for All" where idealistic attorney Arthur Kirkland, played by Al Pacino, uses his opening statement to tell the...
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Striking out on settlementsSep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Every so often, the sayings of Casey Stengel come to mind. The longtime manager of the New York Yankees, accustomed to a Prussian professionalism in the hitting and fiel...
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The Republican philosophySep 27, 2010 11:00 pm - All public policy is founded on an underlying philosophy about humanity and the world. Some call it a "worldview," but whatever it is called, everything government does ...
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Behind the White House curtainSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Question of the day: Why do presidents give the White House keys to Bob Woodward? I ask this with all due deference, respect, hat in hand, cape over puddle and other su...
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Where good men (and women) die oldSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - There are few less-alike places in the continental United States than Ashley, N.D., and New York City. But Ashley (population 882) has one remarkable thing in common wit...