Articles filed under Commentary
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Barack Obama is no Neville ChamberlainApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - If he accomplished nothing else during his presidency, Barack Obama has surely earned a place in the Bad Political Analogies Hall of Fame. According to savants on Fox Ne...
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If Trump runs, others winApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - Where's the Donald? Where is Donald Trump? He has sort of hung around presidential candidate events and even launched a presidential exploratory committee, but when the ...
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With a song in prisoners' heartsApr 28, 2015 1:00 am - BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina's largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press - from a riot and a lockdown in February to ...
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'The road to character'Apr 26, 2015 1:00 am - Most of us have an image of the counterculture, shaped by memory or mythmaking, that involves Haight-Ashbury, flea-market clothing, free love and a haze of pot smoke. Bu...
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For the media, traditional values still matterApr 24, 2015 1:00 am - I have been involved in politics and policy-making for over 50 years, and as you can imagine I hold strong feelings about reporters and the media. They're not what you ...
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New reforms will help fight Medicaid fraudApr 23, 2015 1:00 am - A recent state financial audit found that the Illinois Medicaid system paid out $12 million in healthcare benefits for people who had died. The report showed that over 8...
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Slusher: The snicker factor in news judgmentApr 23, 2015 1:00 am - "Judge not, that ye be not judged" is good biblical advice that I admit I do not take often enough. But it inevitably comes to mind whenever we have one of these celebri...
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Criticism of Comey's comments misguidedApr 22, 2015 1:00 am - In the category of "no good deed goes unpunished," we now have the speech of FBI Director James Comey at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He said some remarkable thin...
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Supreme Court slander shows Rauner's lack of understanding about governmentApr 22, 2015 1:00 am - Elementary school students learn that American government is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judicial. Our nation's founders, having studied hist...
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'Buy North American' law would hurt Illinois workersApr 21, 2015 1:00 am - The economy and our state's fiscal health are taking center stage in Springfield as the spring legislative session ramps up to its scheduled conclusion at the end of May...