Articles filed under Commentary
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gerson.clm 0913Sep 13, 2015 1:00 am - Fourteen grim anniversaries separated from Sept. 11, 2001, some memories still come in high definition, like flashes of a strobe light. An email from my deputy I read a...
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Congress must expand anti-heroin effortsSep 11, 2015 1:00 am - Jody Daitchman was blindsided when her son Alex Laliberte overdosed on heroin in their Buffalo Grove home. Alex had a history of drug misuse, but Jody didn't know that h...
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Ode to joy, and trust, on campaign trailSep 11, 2015 1:00 am - It's no longer enough to be a happy warrior; now our candidates must be joyful! Oh, joie. Jeb Bush started the joy bender last week when he told a New Hampshire audience...
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Now, it's up to Senate to act on IRS's gift-tax ruleSep 10, 2015 11:00 pm - In 2013, the IRS Tea Party scandal broke. America found out that the IRS, in the form of Lois Lerner and others, was using its power to try to intimidate people into sil...
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Slusher: Information vacuum is sometimes unavoidable, always uncomfortableSep 10, 2015 1:00 am - And now we wait. Like wheels within wheels, there is a rhythm to the news cycle, and it is not always comforting. In regard to the killing of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewi...
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Obama's largest failure - Syria's graveyard of American credibilitySep 10, 2015 1:00 am - One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million ...
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Biden's bankruptcy bill could complicate a presidential runSep 09, 2015 1:00 am - As Vice President Joe Biden reportedly mulls a bid for the U.S. presidency, his champions portray him as a credible alternative to Democratic Party front-runner Hillary ...
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That non-P.C. shtick works only as long as we're all offendedSep 09, 2015 1:00 am - "The message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage, but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada." - Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselve...
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Kim Davis is no Rosa ParksSep 08, 2015 1:00 am - Rosa Parks is an American hero, but her case was not an accident. Other African-Americans had shown similar defiance (ask Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her se...
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Clerk Kim Davis will be a lonely footnote in historySep 06, 2015 1:00 am - Tricky business, this righteous outrage. You have to be so careful not to sound like a hypocrite while you're deriding hypocrisy. Messes with your sleep. In the past fe...