Articles filed under Opinion
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Hamas tactics were those of thugsApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous torture...
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Why we didn't post 9-1-1 tapeApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Eight editors in a room. A riveting, but very disturbing tape of the 9-1-1 call from the Hoffman Estates murder scene. The question: Do we put it on the Web for all to h...
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Insurance for all lowers costs, risksApr 21, 2009 11:00 pm - The hardest group to sell on national health reform is those who don't desperately need it. That would include Americans who already have coverage through a workplace, a...
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Beware the four-part Obama stingApr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University last week, Barack Obama prom...
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Yes Virginia, there is a Crook CountyApr 19, 2009 11:00 pm - The first time I saw the term "Crook County" was more than 25 years ago. Some shady judges and greaseball lawyers had just been indicted on federal corruption charges in...
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Unions are changing, state by stateApr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - They are not the only married couple in America who talk about taxes and ulcers in the same sentence. Nor are they the only couple who believe they are paying more than ...
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Do you want to be defined by denim?Apr 18, 2009 11:00 pm - On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested w...
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Saturday SoapboxApr 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Both sides of the tracks: When government entities cooperate, the taxpayers win. This week the Barrington Countryside and Lake Zurich fire protection districts agreed to...
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U.S.-Mexico summit features familiar issuesApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Change is the buzzword on both sides of the border. But how much has really changed? Twenty years ago, when President George H.W. Bush hosted President Carlos Salinas de...
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Heroes among us illuminate an often bleak worldApr 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But do not let this blind you to what virtue there is. Many people strive for high ideals, ...