Articles filed under Commentary
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In the way and out the windowSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and histor...
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World's bullies see America's strength waningSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - When I was a kid, there was a bully in our neighborhood. He punched, pushed and kicked kids smaller and weaker than himself, especially those who refused to respond to h...
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Scott Fawell: When do prosecutors cross the line?Sep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Long Grove resident and DuPage County native Scott Fawell recently completed a 6½-year federal prison term for racketeering. He testified again...
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Suburban races crucial to future legislative controlSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - It has been said that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. In 2010 it is highly probable that control of the Illinois General Assembly for possi...
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Republican chairman finding his voiceSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - As an African-American elected to an office never before occupied by someone who looked like him, this national leader has a chance to improve race relations in this cou...
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They're not lies, but not truth eitherSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single speech - the now-famous Obama-Wilson "...
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In the muddled middleSep 19, 2009 11:00 pm - In the early 1970s when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering politics, he sought ...
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Playing the race deckSep 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Charges of racism these past several days, from op-ed pages to Jimmy Carter's interpretation of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst, are proving ... complicated. Stran...
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Applying a double standard on racismSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president bec...
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Collaborative style at odds with polarized politicsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked ...