Articles filed under Opinion
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Coolidge-Reagan-Walker?Feb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - When three-fourths of the Boston police department went on strike in 1919, leading to broken shop windows and looting, then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge called out...
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In the center of the stormFeb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - By George Will MADISON, Wis. — Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested ...
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Federal policies skew house values everywhereFeb 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Not Seattle! Home prices in the “Queen City” of the Northwest were not supposed to go south. This isn’t Miami, Phoenix or Las Vegas, where sun-tanned speculators built b...
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Who the intellectual front-runners areFeb 20, 2011 11:00 pm - President Obama's 2012 budget is the numerical embodiment of his State of the Union address — both being systematic distractions from the main, current tasks of governin...
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The Republican strategy over principleFeb 20, 2011 11:00 pm - Speaker of the House John Boehner didn't know it, but for two years he was in heaven. From 2008 to 2010, Boehner's job as minority leader was to keep the House Repub...
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Obama’s Louis XV budgetFeb 19, 2011 11:00 pm - Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Obama told The Washington Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then spent the next...
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Respect women for their choicesFeb 19, 2011 11:00 pm - Yes, Lara Logan was sexually assaulted and badly beaten. Yes, that is a terrible thing. She is, however, reported to be in “remarkably good spirits.” Indeed. She is aliv...
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Whistling Dixie — againFeb 17, 2011 11:00 pm - Does Haley Barbour really have a warped and offensive view of America’s racial history? Or is he just playing a dangerous game? Perhaps both. The Mississippi governor, ...
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Smoke, mirrors and other deceptionsFeb 17, 2011 11:00 pm - On the home page of the Office of Management and Budget website (President Obama is quoted: “Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for ...
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Cut duplication of servicesFeb 17, 2011 10:00 pm - Cut duplication of services Currently, unincorporated areas fall under several governmental jurisdictions. Townships repair and maintain the roads, Cook County prov...