Articles filed under Opinion
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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...
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L.A.'s top cop was gloriously ahead of his timeAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Last month, when reports surfaced that Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton and his wife, Rikki Klieman, were putting their house on the market, people in L.A. started ...
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Journalists' lives more important than any politicsAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - I know. The North Koreans are using President Bill Clinton's visit for all their own reasons. Attention world: Here we are, our leader is alive, Bill Clinton is paying h...
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Local news is daily devotion of the Daily HeraldAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Local. Every day. Everywhere. It's not yet a Daily Herald slogan, but it could be. Managing Editor Madeleine Doubek informally coined the phrase this week as a group of ...
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Cash for clunkers brilliant for our timesAug 04, 2009 11:00 pm - This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the "cash for clunkers" program, you could get more money for your '93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth - up to $4,500 ...
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'Compassionate' suicide first step toward forcedAug 04, 2009 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Northern Ireland - While America debates whether the federal government should dictate which insurance policies and medical treatments it will allow us to have,...
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Combating a case of Obama fatigueAug 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Apropos of nothing, I awoke recently as unfocused and grumpy as a bear coming out of hibernation. Initially, I blamed my mood on the weather. After months of blessedly c...
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A tactical retreat on health reformAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy - and half the mainstream m...