Articles filed under Opinion
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Answer to morgue mess? Don't die in Cook CountyJan 28, 2012 11:00 pm - If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, then a morgue is one of the few places where those two realities intersect. Or, in the case of the Cook County morgu...
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Bloated hype aside, it’s still a crisisJan 27, 2012 4:00 am - Friends, don’t believe the hype. Despite well-intentioned headlines proclaiming that the obesity crisis has finally leveled off, we can’t yet say “mission accomplished.”...
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Rooting for NewtJan 27, 2012 4:00 am - Ask honest Democrats, and they’ll tell you what I’m about to tell you: We’re rooting for Newt. The death penalty for marijuana? Replacing janitors with school kids? Mini...
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Finding the right candidate is complicatedJan 26, 2012 4:00 am - A longtime conservative friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: “Whoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president i...
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The odd new positives for RomneyJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation. The ar...
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Obama can’t celebrate just yetJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - When the polls closed in South Carolina on Saturday, I happened to be in a Charleston hotel lobby where elegantly dressed couples were filing past on their way to a blac...
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The GOP suicide marchJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - “Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?” — Former presidential candidate Rick Perry It’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be ca...
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How “Downton Abbey” is more democratic than we areJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - Every Sunday night, the mega-carriages drop millions of us off at “Downton Abbey,” the hit PBS series about an aristocratic family, its English country estate and the co...
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Paterno epitaph: He protected himself, not the childrenJan 23, 2012 8:00 am - On those glorious, golden football Saturdays at Penn State — especially after any of Joe Paterno's record 409 wins — the nickname “Happy Valley” was invoked ad nauseam. ...
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A Latino identity crisisJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - The Latino community is finding itself in a quandary about how to reconcile a tremendously diverse collection of immigrants and multigenerational U.S.-born citizens who ...