Articles filed under Opinion
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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...
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A second chance in CubaApr 21, 2015 1:00 am - If the much-heralded meeting between Barack Obama and Raul Castro was hardly to be equated with the meeting in mid-Africa between Stanley and Livingstone, at least some ...
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Zion must rise together in show of true characterApr 20, 2015 1:00 am - True character is seen in times of crisis. It is at those times that we are able to absorb the worst of what the world has to offer, analyze it, process it, and use that...