Articles filed under Opinion
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Bipartisanship lessons from the youngMar 21, 2014 5:01 am - A chance meeting by two young women in Springfield has blossomed into a direct challenge to the ugly partisanship that is polarizing America. The two women are from the...
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Being Vladimir PutinMar 20, 2014 5:01 am - "Once an agent, always an agent." This was the terse response of Nina Khrushcheva on New Year's Eve 1999 when her mother commented favorably about the new president, Vl...
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Another object lesson in the problems with political pollsMar 20, 2014 5:01 am - Now about those political polls ... In sports, the common epithet when the lesser of two seemingly unevenly matched opponents wins or very nearly wins is "that's why the...
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The charter conspiratorsMar 19, 2014 5:01 am - In the war between the rich and the poor, I'm enlisting on the side of the underdog - the rich. What a drubbing they've been taking! Across the nation, but particularly ...
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Where Congress falls short, and where it doesn'tMar 19, 2014 5:01 am - At a public gathering the other day, someone asked me how I'd sum up my views on Congress. It was a good question, because it forced me to step back from worrying about ...
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Making the AIDS crisis worseMar 18, 2014 5:01 am - Some of America's closest friends in Africa have turned with a vengeance on gay people. In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan recently approved a law making homosexual...
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Civic education crucial to improve our politicsMar 18, 2014 5:01 am - In April 2012, I wrote that civic education in Illinois schools is an important part of our state's solution to the pathetic condition of Illinois government. To promote...
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Noah's arc of triumphMar 16, 2014 5:01 am - There's nothing quite so helpful as a fatwa and threats of a Christian boycott to create buzz in advance of new movie. "Noah," scheduled for its U.S. release on March 2...
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The SAT isn't perfect, but it serves its purposeMar 14, 2014 5:01 am - Helicopter parents, start your engines. They're revising the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) again, and you know what that means. More weeping, wailing and gnashing of te...
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Christie avoids hard truths in speech to conservativesMar 13, 2014 5:01 am - Chris Christie began his much-awaited remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington recently with an anecdote that seemed to portend some to...