Articles filed under Opinion
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Kirk: My long walk back to the SenateFeb 02, 2013 5:00 pm - “Am I going to die today?” I asked Jay as we rode together in an ambulance through the streets of Chicago. Jay Alexander was my doctor but also my friend, and I knew he ...
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Obama’s test on immigrationFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - President Barack Obama has grown testy about reporters who have a “default position” that policy debates have two sides. “On almost every issue,” he recently told The Ne...
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Not all smiles on immigration reform?Feb 01, 2013 4:00 am - Such a happy scene: Republican senators grinning next to Democratic senators as though the debt-ceiling crisis, Obamacare and Sarah Palin never happened. The unifying ev...
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Remember also band director’s positive sideFeb 01, 2013 4:00 am - In light of the allegations concerning former Libertyville High School band director Jeff Daeschler, we believe the public should hear the opinion of his former students...
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Protecting the currency of trust in all we publishJan 31, 2013 8:33 am - It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a web of deceit and plagiarism that cast a deep stain of doubt on the cr...
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On torture, a debate we needJan 31, 2013 4:00 am - In retrospect, a better title for the terrific film “Zero Dark Thirty” would have been “Rorschach.” Like the famous ink blots developed by Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Ro...
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Cameras and the rights of the accusedJan 30, 2013 4:00 am - Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans recently announced a policy designed to spare witnesses, judges, jurors and potential jurors from being photographed in court on ce...
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Questions that need askingJan 29, 2013 4:00 am - Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they...
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Recipe for a conservative revivalJan 29, 2013 4:00 am - Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama — with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower ...
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The sirens of the PentagonJan 28, 2013 12:06 pm - It must be true what they say about women — that they are smarter, stronger, wiser and wilier than your average Joe. How else could one explain the magical thinking tha...