Articles filed under Opinion
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Why government needs a dietAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Because the possibility of effectively supervising government varies inversely with government’s size, so does government’s lawfulness. This iron law of Leviathan is ill...
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The delusions in Ryan’s Medicare visionAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn’t. It’s really hard to know what Mitt Romney’s VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes Obamacare’s $716 billi...
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Openness in an hour of pain is a gift to rest of usAug 23, 2012 6:27 am - This column is my expression of thanks to all those people who, in the midst of the deepest suffering, take some time out to describe the source of their grief with a lo...
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“Legitimate rape”Aug 22, 2012 10:36 am - Rep. Todd Akin is staying in the Missouri Senate race, notwithstanding the calls of many fellow Republicans that he step aside after flaunting his ignorance about anatom...
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Convention yawners? Not this yearAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - Let’s be honest. There hasn’t been an interesting national political convention since 1976. But at a minimum, this year’s conventions will give us guns, strippers, a se...
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Romney’s present, Ryan’s futureAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - Vice presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any. This time could be different. The Democrats’ Mediscare barrage i...
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Op-ed column: Cost shift would worsen pension problemAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - According to the people who run it, Illinois’ pension system has promised over $600 billion in future benefits to workers and teachers and has less than $70 billion in a...
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Death of a salesgirlAug 20, 2012 5:00 am - The legendary Cosmo Girl, Helen Gurley Brown, has died and with her, one hopes, a not-so-fabulous legacy. This would be the demonstrably ridiculous notion that women ca...
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Facts get in the wayAug 20, 2012 5:00 am - Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful. To cite one example, much of what the GOP is saying...
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A 10-year-old who loved and was belovedAug 19, 2012 7:53 pm - The suspected killer of my son has been arrested. And now another round of news stories about the tragedy of 10-year-old Tony Borcia’s death has and will continue to ens...