Articles filed under Opinion
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The necessity to act in SyriaJan 22, 2013 4:00 am - There are two kinds of wars, we are told — wars of choice and wars of necessity. The former is to be avoided and the latter fought with appropriate reluctance. World War...
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El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish)Jan 21, 2013 4:00 am - The new year began with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into...
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Our dysfunction quagmireJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - Our dysfunction quagmire President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our g...
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No impossible dreamJan 20, 2013 3:00 am - Don’t listen to those who say President Obama’s bold plan to reduce gun violence — including an assault weapons ban — has no chance in Congress. I seem to recall that he...
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Aaron Swartz was accused of real crimesJan 18, 2013 7:59 am - Aaron Swartz: Robin Hood or John Dillinger? He was not as virtuous as Robin and hardly as bad as John. Call the computer genius saint or sinner, few will argue with labe...
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A new strategy for the GOPJan 18, 2013 7:36 am - It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is ...
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Daniels: The one who got awayJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Just before noon on Jan. 14, Mitch Daniels ceased to be governor of Indiana. By 2 p.m. he was in West Lafayette conducting a meeting as the soon-to-be president of Purdu...
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What the fiscal cliff deal says about CongressJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Ordinarily, the start of a new Congress is a time for optimism. Fresh faces and a purposeful spirit combine to get Congress off to a hope-filled start. Yet Capitol Hill ...
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The debacle of the gun control debateJan 17, 2013 4:00 am - Once, after I had written about gun control, a guy called to differ and said that had the Jews of Germany been armed, the Holocaust never would have happened. That asser...
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Headlines showing too much biasJan 17, 2013 4:00 am - I have lived in Rolling Meadows for 30 years, and my wife and I have been subscribers to your newspaper over the same time. Normally we enjoy reading the local news of t...