Articles filed under Commentary
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Illinois can lead out on pollution fightJun 03, 2014 5:01 am - As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines. E...
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The revolt of the nerdsJun 01, 2014 5:01 am - Parallel to the rise of the Tea Party - with less attention but more potential influence - has been a gathering movement of reform conservatives whom my colleague E.J. D...
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Digital age makes for 'dream quinceanera'Jun 01, 2014 5:00 am - It was an old-fashioned, heartwarming story made possible by the digital age. Brandy Huerta's message came to us via the Daily Herald Facebook page. In it, the Carpenter...
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Educational success is impossible to quantifyMay 30, 2014 5:01 am - Mandates, dictates and data, data, data have overwhelmed day-to-day education. What used to be just the ACT and ISAT has snowballed with CCSS and PARCC into a testing an...
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Chicken plants and the immigration dilemmaMay 29, 2014 5:01 am - Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi, former head of the Republican National Committee, now a political fixer and influential voice in GOP circles, says he firs...
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The value of a pushMay 29, 2014 5:01 am - A little girl can break her daddy's heart with one question. A few days ago, my 9-year-old daughter - noticing I was in a suit and not my usual, casual attire - asked me...
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Democracy, dialogue and a place for toleranceMay 29, 2014 1:01 am - Sometimes I do wonder what certain people think democracy is. We lost a subscriber this week. It happens. We never like it. We want our customers to enjoy us, to appreci...
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Warning: Literature happeningMay 28, 2014 5:01 am - Just when you thought American higher learning couldn't get any more ridiculous, along come demands for warning labels on provocative works of literature. One never know...
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Hillary Clinton versus the pressMay 28, 2014 5:01 am - LAS VEGAS - Karl Rove spoke here recently. I'd like to tell you what he said, but the session was off the record. This was a pity because I wanted him to expand on his s...
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Why the VA scandal sticksMay 27, 2014 5:01 am - Why do some political scandals stick while others fade? The level of media obsession seems to rise and fall as mysteriously as the stock market. On Benghazi, sell. Hold ...