Articles filed under Commentary
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Uniqueness entitles us to the right to liveAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The debate - OK, the shouting match - we are having over "health-care reform" is about many things, including cost, who gets help and who does not and who, or what, gets...
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Fear no evil in benign provision of health care billAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have "The Birthers...
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Latinos know profiling all too wellAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - If you think it's embarrassing for an African-American to have to identify himself to the police while in his own house, imagine how humiliating it is for U.S.-born Hisp...
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Health care reform: a better planAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and othe...
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No, red states are not better than blue statesAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In an entertaining but silly political game, partisans score points by comparing statistics of so-called red states and blue states. Conservative Ross Douthat does that ...
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Sotomayor's potential impactAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said ...
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Outrage begins to dog usAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe it's the dog days, but three friends recently got in touch within a 24-hour period to catch up. Or more like it, to catch their breath. One reported the onset of ...
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Saturday SoapboxAug 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Game over: He wanted to be governor. He wanted to be attorney general. The only thing DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett doesn't want to be is Lisa Madigan's op...
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Cost of health care is what's ailing usAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote an op-ed column for The Washington Post on Tuesday in defense of the Obama administration's efforts to "refor...
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L.A.'s top cop was gloriously ahead of his timeAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Last month, when reports surfaced that Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton and his wife, Rikki Klieman, were putting their house on the market, people in L.A. started ...