Articles filed under Commentary
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Slusher: Our quest in the Chicago Blackhawks quest for the NHL Stanley CupJun 04, 2015 1:00 am - We started Wednesday evening with about the best circumstance we can hope for regarding a major playoff event. The puck was set to drop shortly after 7 p.m. in Game 1 of...
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Two-year schools invest in immigrants, communitiesJun 04, 2015 1:00 am - ROCKVILLE, MD. - Fidelis Militante immigrated to America 10 years ago from the Philippines. When she was still in high school, she qualified as a nursing assistant and v...
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Humanitarian crisis overtaking South SudanJun 03, 2015 1:00 am - KUAJOK, South Sudan - "I wish," a South Sudanese female aid worker said to me, "they had waited five or 10 years before resuming the war." This is what passes for hope i...
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Duggars reality show jumps 19 sharksJun 02, 2015 1:00 am - Several years ago, I heard Republican strategist Karl Rove give a most eloquent answer to a question about his faith, rendered here from memory: "Faith is a gift that, u...
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Profiting from the presidencyJun 02, 2015 1:00 am - Gerald Ford was very briefly vice president of the United States and, following the resignation of Richard Nixon, somewhat less briefly president of the United States. H...
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Numbers are ominous on climate changeJun 02, 2015 1:00 am - I found Wally Degner's May 24 letter in "Your Views" quite amusing. That 1.5 degree average temperature change is for the USA only and covers 139 years not 115. Other co...
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Talk to right people about climate changeJun 01, 2015 1:00 am - It makes me nervous when someone who might become president of the United States says the science on climate change is "convoluted" and that it is "arrogant" to assert t...
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Davis: Strip clubs, saving small birds - all in a week's workMay 31, 2015 11:00 pm - Q. What do some of the migratory birds that crash into buildings in the Loop have in common with suburban strip clubs? A. Both are endangered species. And, I should hast...
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Bernie Sanders is Hillary's leftward advance manMay 31, 2015 1:00 am - Is Bernie Sanders pulling Hillary Clinton to the Left? No, for the same reason a canoe doesn't pull an aircraft carrier. The Vermont socialist running in the Democratic ...
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Illinois horse racing needs bigger pursesMay 29, 2015 1:00 am - Purses are the prize that Illinois horsemen race to win, and they support thousands of jobs throughout the state, from the horsemen and backstretch workers in the wester...