Articles filed under Opinion
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History is in the eye of the beholderFeb 26, 2015 12:00 am - Some of you reading this might feel an uncomfortable little twinge in the gut, but I believe the time has come to honestly address an issue that a scarce few are willing...
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Obama wise not to change nature of intra-Muslim fightFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - Looking around the world, I see little but debacles. Vladimir Putin has his way with Ukraine, treating Europe and the United States with the contempt they have so assidu...
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Obama controls his message by cracking the digital codeFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - YOLO! That's slang for "You only live once," and the phrase was popularized by the rapper Drake in his 2011 hit song "The Motto." (We had to look that one up.) It was al...
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Taming government's 'Leviathan by proxy'Feb 24, 2015 12:00 am - For the six years of the Obama presidency, or perhaps the last 35 years since Ronald Reagan's election, American politics has been dominated by a debate on the size and ...
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Victory not found in the words of warFeb 24, 2015 12:00 am - Channel-surfing the nightly cable news, one is reminded that certitude is the enemy of sanity. On both Fox News and MSNBC, conversation has centered lately on the propo...
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Budget is inadequate, but it's just the beginningFeb 22, 2015 12:00 am - Now it begins. After two years of campaigning to lower taxes and increase spending, Bruce Rauner was mandated to do the math and show his work. Unfortunately, the number...
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Gov. Rauner 'resets' IllinoisFeb 22, 2015 12:00 am - "Dire circumstances call for drastic measures" - a sobering message that resonated throughout Illinois as Gov. Bruce Rauner offered his first budget blueprint. I believe...
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Warm thoughts in an Arkansas icestormFeb 20, 2015 12:00 am - Housebound in an ice storm, the columnist finds himself distracted by online trivia and tempted to yell at the TV: • Washington Post headline: "Williams undone by his gi...
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A life lived as a tall taleFeb 19, 2015 12:00 am - A beloved friend of mine died this week, but not any kind of ordinary friend. Arnaud de Borchgrave just happened to be, to my mind and to many other discriminating ones,...
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With the budget, the president calls the shotsFeb 19, 2015 12:00 am - It may not be obvious from the news coverage, but a good bit of Congress's 2015 agenda just landed on Capitol Hill with a thud. I mean this literally. The federal budget...