Articles filed under Opinion
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Why do we persist in blundering into war?Jul 02, 2015 1:00 am - When another dramatic story sprang out of Iraq recently — that ISIS reduced the flow of water through a dam on the Euphrates to shrink the river and give them easier acc...
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GOP searches for strategy to counter Obama winning streakJun 30, 2015 1:00 am - Republicans have tried to pin the lame duck label on President Obama for quite a while now. But for a lame duck, Obama is doing pretty well. He won on Obamacare. He won ...
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Why the Charleston shooter was a failureJun 30, 2015 1:00 am - Has any murdering terrorist ever failed more dramatically than Dylann Storm Roof? Like any punk with a gun, he managed to slaughter nine blameless African-American Chris...
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The GOP's view from under the sandJun 30, 2015 1:00 am - If you're old enough to recall how the landslide election of Lyndon Johnson over the hapless Barry Goldwater supposedly spelled the end of the Republican Party, or how R...
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Schools' continuing need for 'care by committee'Jun 29, 2015 1:00 am - Certain childhood memories stand out for me as the youngest of eight children. My dad died shortly after my third birthday, so I think I can accurately say my care came ...
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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership gives corporations special legal rightsJun 28, 2015 1:00 am - In promoting a proposed trade pact covering 12 Pacific Rim nations, President Obama has cast the initiative as an instrument of equity. The Trans-Pacific Partnership wou...
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A deeper look at pope's climate change statementJun 28, 2015 1:00 am - Reducing Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si" to a white paper on global warming is, in George Weigel's fitting analogy, "akin to reading 'Moby Dick' as if it were a tr...
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Now is the time to raise our voices for clean waterJun 25, 2015 11:00 pm - For more than 40 years, I've enjoyed the beauty of Illinois' outdoors. From white bass fishing on the Vermilion River as a child to fly fishing for smallmouth bass on th...
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For Hillary, a new Iraq War trapJun 25, 2015 1:00 am - President Obama's decision to send 450 more American troops to Iraq has put Hillary Clinton in a tough spot. What will she say about the fight against the Islamic State ...
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Seeds of modern democracy were planted by Magna CartaJun 25, 2015 1:00 am - This week of June 15 is being celebrated all over the civilized world as the 800th anniversary of one of the major events in human history - an event that has led us to ...