Articles filed under Opinion
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How to define an AmericanJul 03, 2014 5:01 am - It's a summer night in Washington. On the Mall, across from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, people are sitting on lawn chairs and huddled on blankets staring at a w...
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Believe your own eyes, not the deniersJul 02, 2014 5:00 am - A friend of mine worked for a small-town newspaper years ago and had to write the weather report. The county fair was approaching but the prediction was for rain. So the...
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Into the morassJul 01, 2014 5:01 am - Remember the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush? It happened on Dec. 14, 2008, near the end of the president's second term. Bush had travel...
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The power of authenticityJul 01, 2014 5:01 am - When I worked as a Senate aide in the early 1990s, the state of New York was represented by two figures who could hardly have been more different. Democrat Daniel Patric...
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Hillary Clinton's immigration misstepJun 29, 2014 5:01 am - We already knew the immigration issue was a tough one for Republicans. They have a hard time opposing legal status for the undocumented without sounding anti-Hispanic. T...
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The lesson Congress should learn from the VA scandalJun 29, 2014 5:01 am - Like other federal scandals before it, the mess involving VA hospitals has followed a well-trod path. First comes the revelation of misdoing. Then comes the reaction: a ...
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Target overly generous state salaries to cut budgetJun 27, 2014 5:01 am - Citizens and politicians agree: Illinois' budget is a mess. Yet nothing ever seems to be done about it. Why not? Because one-third of the state's spending - employee com...
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This is National HIV Testing Day: Know your statusJun 26, 2014 11:00 pm - It has been more than 30 years since Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler made a historic announcement. "The probable cause of AIDS has been found," s...
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You'll find much world-class talent when you go localJun 25, 2014 11:00 pm - Random thoughts: • If you're interested in the arts and entertainment, I hope you're following our stories and the events in our Suburban Chicago's Got Talent competitio...
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The enigmatic warJun 25, 2014 5:01 am - This is a splendid time to remember the First World War. It started 100 years ago this month with the June 28 shooting of the Austrian archduke and his wife. By the end ...