Articles filed under Opinion
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The wonder of our changeMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - I started off a recent day by reading the obituary of Wesley Brown. I did not know him and, in fact, had never heard of him. He was the first African-American to graduat...
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Bob Kerrey’s entitlement honestyMay 29, 2012 5:00 am - By endorsing Deb Fischer — the surprise winner of Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary — Sarah Palin let a competent candidate slip through her normal screening process....
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Politics shouldn’t be boringMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - When my kids were young, about the worst thing they could say about something was that it was capital-b BORRRING. You know how they stretch out the word, as in why say m...
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The media’s religion deficitMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - Evidence of big media’s bias against religion that doesn’t advance the secular and liberal agenda of the Democratic Party is beyond dispute. Any faith attached to a cons...
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Make education funding a priorityMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - This is a very exciting time for education, and yet a very difficult time. We have seen some of the most incredible changes in education ever take place in a very short ...
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Europe still remembers America’s fallenMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - On the eve of last year’s Memorial Day, I traveled to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten to pay my respects to my great-uncle from Chicago, Anton Dietzen, wh...
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Why Bain questions matterMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Who are the dastardly enemies of free enterprise who decided to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at the private-equity firm Bain Capital? Er, those would be his fel...
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The United States of GamblingMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - A surprising fact: Gamblers spent more last year at commercial casinos in Indiana than they did at non-Indian casinos in all but three other states — not surprisingly, N...
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Real pension reform means structural changeMay 25, 2012 5:00 am - The time for meaningful action on Illinois’ pension problem is now. The billions of dollars that saddle the state with a pension albatross cannot be solved by shifting t...
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The Mitt you see is what you getMay 23, 2012 5:00 am - For all of Mitt Romney’s talk of what he would do on Day One in the White House — bomb Iran or was it Planned Parenthood? -- there’s just as good a chance he would be ta...