Articles filed under Opinion
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Beware the ides of January in primary seasonJan 16, 2012 4:30 am - It isn't often that two members of the Illinois General Assembly can directly save individual taxpayers a few bucks so quickly or easily. Yet that is just what state Rep...
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In GOP, Romney has the best shot at presidencyJan 16, 2012 4:00 am - The people have spoken — all 126,185 of them. That’s how many votes turned Mitt Romney into the Republican nominee, for all intents and purposes. In a country with more ...
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When a gun replica is deadlyJan 16, 2012 4:00 am - Three days after Jaime Gonzalez Jr., a 15-year-old Brownsville, Texas, resident, was killed by police in his middle-school hallway after refusing to drop what looked lik...
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Ron Paul's remarkable achievementJan 14, 2012 11:00 pm - There are two stories coming out of New Hampshire. The big story is Mitt Romney. The bigger one is Ron Paul. Romney won a major victory with nearly 40 percent of the vo...
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The Reggie in the GOP raceJan 13, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt Romney is starting to get on my nerves. He reminds me of Reggie, the rich, handsome, athletic and effortlessly superficial character in the “Archie” comics. He does...
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Snow job: We’re on top of it, whatever comesJan 12, 2012 4:00 am - Imagine a meeting of editors sitting around a table, most with electronic information devices at hand, as well as at least three newspapers. Here’s how people talk about...
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The GOP’s clash of the nice guysJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - Iowa front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have a little problem. Both are too nice to be mean to each other. Who can throw the first punch in a tight race growin...
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Santorum a worthy challengerJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. B...
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Tallying the reality of Obama’s successJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - In the depths of the Watergate scandal, a persistent theory emerged that President Richard Nixon would cancel the 1972 election. It became so rampant that The Washington...
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A candidate as fringe as fringe can beJan 10, 2012 4:02 am - Before there was the Tea Party to define the phrase “far-right fringe,” there was Rick Santorum. He’s a nice-guy zealot who should never be allowed anywhere near the Ova...