Articles filed under Opinion
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Score one for the right in abortion rights battle that leaves no winnersJan 31, 2009 10:00 pm - It must be the world's longest-running game of ideological pingpong. In 1984, Ronald Reagan aimed an overhand smash at international organizations, pledging that America...
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Beware need for speed that puts us on thin iceJan 31, 2009 10:00 pm - Summoned to remove a fish bone agonizingly stuck in a rich man's throat, British surgeon Joseph Lister did so. When the grateful patient asked the cost, Lister replied: ...
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Candidates: We need your e-mail addressesJan 29, 2009 10:00 pm - One hundred and one. Not dalmations; that's the number of local governments falling within our circulation area in DuPage County. Twenty nine school districts. Twenty tw...
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Governor no media darling, just a menaceJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Something very strange - and disturbing - has happened with Rod Blagojevich. Even as legal wheels turn in Springfield to remove him from the governorship, he has become ...
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Context? Truth? In the end, it's really your callJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - How interesting that when he decided to begin telling us all "the truth" about his activities that led to federal charges and an impeachment case, Gov. Rod Blagojevich t...
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Stimulus plan must make real impact nowJan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Five hundred thousand jobs lost last month, the Dow Jones industrial average teetering at 8,000, and home prices continuing to plummet - to say our economy is in need of...
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Fading dynasties make politics less predictableJan 24, 2009 10:00 pm - The dynasties are disappearing. The latest proof came when Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, dramatically removed herself as a possible rep...
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Commutation was on Bush's termsJan 24, 2009 10:00 pm - I was glad to see that George W. Bush commuted the prison sentences of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. And frankly, I was a bit surpri...
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Obama's background sets stage for compromisesJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - When Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that a new era has begun and that "the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply," ...
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Time to shift heavy responsibilityJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - By morning of that first day, even before he awoke, the overseas markets - the Nikkei, the DAX, the FTSE 100 - had moved and the world had changed. He kissed his wife an...