Articles filed under Opinion
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Building hope for collaboration in IsraelJan 11, 2013 4:00 am - Standing atop Israel’s Mount of the Precipice, it’s easy to believe that anything is possible. Its sweeping views of the Jezreel Valley, Mount Tabor and other Galilean s...
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Stunt shows what papers do — engageJan 10, 2013 7:00 am - All right, pay attention. Ah, well, actually, I may not have to ask that of you. If a stunt pulled by a Belgian advertising agency is any indication, you're already pret...
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The wrong RepublicansJan 10, 2013 4:01 am - “The damage may have already been done,” starts a Wall Street Journal news story about the fiscal cliff. This is damage a fix at this point can’t fix. That Washington co...
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Return of the real ObamaJan 09, 2013 4:00 am - The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives....
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The tarring of Chuck HagelJan 09, 2013 4:00 am - Before they were girls, they were women. Before that, they were girls. I am not talking here of the chronology of females but of acceptable usage. Back in the 1970s, for...
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20 years later, we haven’t learnedJan 08, 2013 4:00 am - On the 20th anniversary of the Brown’s Chicken massacre in Palatine, what has changed? Our innocence was lost after seven people were murdered that snowy January night. ...
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The politics of protecting the middle classJan 08, 2013 4:00 am - Defeat is usually an orphan. This one had many proud fathers. In the “fiscal cliff” agreement, President Barack Obama secured his vanishingly narrow electoral mandate t...
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Of plots and clotsJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism. This time it’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose ...
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Left should know, Obama did goodJan 07, 2013 4:00 am - To my friends on the left: This one’s for you. Your grumbling that President Obama again gave away the store to Republicans is unwarranted. The deal to evade the fiscal...
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Notre Dame and the sports-academia complexJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared to the a...