Articles filed under Commentary
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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...
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Trump's tower of babble on languageSep 05, 2015 11:00 pm - Donald Trump has a point when he talks about the need for immigrants to learn English. "That's how we assimilate," he says. Which is true, as any visitor to Miami's Litt...
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Politicians are failing us on the economySep 04, 2015 1:00 am - A couple of months ago, the Congressional Budget Office issued a sobering report on the U.S. economy's long-term prospects. Not to put too fine a point on it, we're head...
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The tough choices facing NapervilleSep 04, 2015 1:00 am - Since being seated in May of this year, the Naperville City Council has diligently been working on sustainable solutions to the city's fiscal imbalance. It is critical t...
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Slusher: Remember reliability, not just immediacy of breaking newsSep 02, 2015 11:00 pm - Covering breaking news on the so-called 24-hour news cycle has always been fraught with certain perils. It was challenge enough before the turn of the century, when in m...
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The GOP's Trump dilemma: How to overcome futilitySep 02, 2015 1:00 am - "I don't want it to be about me," Donald Trump explained at a recent event in Nashville. In other news: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Trum...
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The emerging, sorry truths about our history with ISISSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - When the first savage hordes of the Islamic State came rolling out of Syria in stolen American trucks across the unrelieved sands of northern Iraq in 2013, it seemed to ...
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Politicians providing fiction, not fact on LongmeadowSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - Algonquin Village President John Schmitt has gone to great lengths to put a positive spin on the Longmeadow highway and bridge project. This four-lane 50 mph highway wo...
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Remembering a towering figure in Maryland politicsSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - Although he certainly did not look the part, Marvin Mandel thought of himself as a latter-day Duke of Windsor. Just as the duke had abdicated the British throne to marry...
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Put the brakes on mandatory E15Sep 01, 2015 1:00 am - Families across Illinois are gearing up for the last big travel weekend of the summer. When they fuel up at the pump, it would be a good idea to read the fine print. "Co...