Articles filed under Opinion
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Deluded by ‘skewed’ pollsOct 02, 2012 5:00 am - Conservative activist circles are abuzz with a new conspiracy theory: Polls showing President Obama with a growing lead over Mitt Romney are deliberately being skewed by...
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It’s debatableOct 01, 2012 10:27 am - The spectacles we persist in dignifying as presidential “debates” — two-minute regurgitations of rehearsed responses — often subtract from the nation’s understanding. Bu...
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The femininity factorOct 01, 2012 5:00 am - Are Republican women politicians more “feminine” than Democratic women politicians? That’s the conclusion of a new study by UCLA researchers, who found that Republican w...
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Still leaving our kids behindOct 01, 2012 5:00 am - The new movie “Won’t Back Down” is to public education what Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” was to the meatpacking industry — a needed spotlight, but not for the squeamish...
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Joining a half billion people for Ryder Cup rideSep 30, 2012 5:00 am - Official item from the DuPage County editor's news budget for the editions of Friday, Sept. 28: RYDER.OPENINGCEREMONY ... 15-18” w/pics ALL ZONES: All the pomp of the op...
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Go large, MittSep 30, 2012 5:00 am - In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the pres...
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An attack on free speechSep 28, 2012 5:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina is giving Steve Cooksey some choices. He can stop speaking. Or he can get a Ph.D. in nutrition, or a medical degree, or a bachelor’s degre...
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Laity can help determine cardinal’s successorSep 27, 2012 5:00 am - Chicago-area Catholics have an unprecedented opportunity to express their concerns and recommendations about our next leader of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Last January,...
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Once upon a disappearanceSep 27, 2012 5:00 am - I’ve written variations of this column a couple of times during the past 20 years, but certain occasions bear revisiting — and surely the disappearance of a friend is on...
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Looking forward, not backSep 26, 2012 12:37 pm - As I write this, Jews across the world are preparing for the holiest day of the year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the day on which we seek forgivenes...