Articles filed under Opinion
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Don’t make the economy worseJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - There is no good reason for negotiations on the budget and the debt ceiling to be deadlocked, because the solution is obvious: First, do no harm. The Hippocratic injunc...
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First Amendment showdown on campaign financeJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - The fate of Arizona’s Clean Elections Act, which the Supreme Court last week declared unconstitutional, was foreshadowed March 28, during oral arguments. Lawyers defend...
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Obama’s economic irrelevanceJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - If there is a single moment that symbolizes President Obama’s dramatically altered re-election prospects, it was his visit to a Jeep plant in Toledo on June 3. Obama’s r...
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Citizens must get involvedJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - Jim Slusher’s recent article regarding political “gerrymandering” (defined as “dividing election districts so as to gain partisan advantage”) is right on. In Illinois th...
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Go MicheleJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - For a Democrat, it’s too good to be true. Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney running neck and neck in Iowa. Romney having to worry about the one in five who won’t vote for...
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Blagojevich story obscures some serious businessJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - It’s hard for me to think of Rod Blagojevich as anything but a creature of the news media. Is that why I feel so sorry for him and his family? Not that justice wasn’t do...
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Obama gets it from all sidesJun 30, 2011 3:00 am - It was another day of Obama bashing in the Capitol. “I’m profoundly disappointed,” one lawmaker said at a news conference last week. “A disappointment to say the least,”...
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Why Tim Pawlenty is no ReaganJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - They, some Republicans, are at it again with the pipe dream of helping the middle class by making the rich much richer. We speak of Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota governor and ...
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Andrew Cuomo beats the oddsJun 28, 2011 9:00 pm - Years ago, I played some pool with Andrew Cuomo. As we circled the table, Cuomo, who was then housing secretary, told me how he was going to become the next governor of ...
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A Texan’s ‘exceptionalism’Jun 28, 2011 12:00 am - In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’ Supreme Court. The g...