Articles filed under Opinion
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On Vick, excusing the inexcusableAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - With team after team turning him down, the question regarding Michael Vick, thrower of football and killer of dogs, is not whether he will return to the NFL or even whet...
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Uniqueness entitles us to the right to liveAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The debate - OK, the shouting match - we are having over "health-care reform" is about many things, including cost, who gets help and who does not and who, or what, gets...
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Fear no evil in benign provision of health care billAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have "The Birthers...
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Latinos know profiling all too wellAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - If you think it's embarrassing for an African-American to have to identify himself to the police while in his own house, imagine how humiliating it is for U.S.-born Hisp...
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Health care reform: a better planAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and othe...
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No, red states are not better than blue statesAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In an entertaining but silly political game, partisans score points by comparing statistics of so-called red states and blue states. Conservative Ross Douthat does that ...
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Sotomayor's potential impactAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said ...
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Outrage begins to dog usAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe it's the dog days, but three friends recently got in touch within a 24-hour period to catch up. Or more like it, to catch their breath. One reported the onset of ...
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Saturday SoapboxAug 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Game over: He wanted to be governor. He wanted to be attorney general. The only thing DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett doesn't want to be is Lisa Madigan's op...
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Cost of health care is what's ailing usAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote an op-ed column for The Washington Post on Tuesday in defense of the Obama administration's efforts to "refor...