Articles filed under Commentary
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About the dogJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - There is a famous story (it may be apocryphal, of course) about Richard Nixon and his dog. No, I don’t mean the Checkers speech, the one where Nixon saved his integrity ...
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Three conservative victoriesJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - While most attention is focused on the presidential race and Republican hopes to oust President Obama from office, some significant steps were taken last week on issues ...
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The pirates who would drown us in the Sea of NothingJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - Wikipedia and a handful of other important global websites went dark Wednesday to protest legislation in Congress that they see as overly broad and potentially dangerous...
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Obama’s biggest threat was HuntsmanJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - Politically astute Republicans, including many social conservatives, see Mitt Romney as the strongest candidate to beat President Obama in November. The former Massachus...
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The mother’s milk of politicsJan 18, 2012 4:00 am - Sheldon Adelson is supposedly a bad man. The gambling mogul gave $5 million to a Newt Gingrich-loving super PAC and this enabled Gingrich to maul Mitt Romney — a touch o...
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Running competitiveness agroundJan 18, 2012 4:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. — Thanks to globalization, and to containerized shipping that began in 1956 and makes globalization work, commodities swiftly move vast distances around...
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Gingrich: The party of oneJan 17, 2012 4:00 am - A fifth-place finish in New Hampshire is not usually the slingshot into a two-way race for the Republican nomination, but Newt Gingrich can reasonably make the case. Th...
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A painful, unfair critique of the first ladyJan 17, 2012 4:00 am - I can’t speak for Michelle Obama, but call me an angry white woman. If the first lady isn’t angry, she certainly has every right to be. Like every woman I know, black o...
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Beware the ides of January in primary seasonJan 16, 2012 4:30 am - It isn't often that two members of the Illinois General Assembly can directly save individual taxpayers a few bucks so quickly or easily. Yet that is just what state Rep...
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In GOP, Romney has the best shot at presidencyJan 16, 2012 4:00 am - The people have spoken — all 126,185 of them. That’s how many votes turned Mitt Romney into the Republican nominee, for all intents and purposes. In a country with more ...