Articles filed under Opinion
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World of sports whistled for unsportsmanlike conductApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Having made a living for almost 50 years covering politics, I've never been under any illusions about where it stands in the larger scheme of things. Politics has its fa...
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Firefighters only want fair solutions to pension fundingApr 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Devaney, a Champaign firefighter, is legislative representative for the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois. If you listen to the angst coming from the Northwest M...
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Lincoln, Douglas provided model for civil political debateApr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - In Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, the 16th president appealed to the "better angels of our nature." In a recent speech in Prescott, Ariz., where Barry Goldwa...
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World War II is an example of a war that had to be foughtApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Nicholson Baker, a supremely talented novelist, has written a surprising book of nonfiction titled "Human Smoke." It is composed primarily of snippets taken from contemp...
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King's enduring legacy should make all Americans proudApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Certain events imprint the mind with images time cannot erase. People of one generation recall where they were when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. People of another r...
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A side to Martin Luther King rarely revealed in tributesApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Forty years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr.? Has it been so short a time? In the four decades since the assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the nation ...
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Obama passes a test of leadership with both candor, graceMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Last August, during an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Barack Obama was asked whether he'd lead the nation in a "conversation about race...
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Absurd ruling against viable option of home schoolingMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - There is a lot to criticize in an outrageous California appellate court decision that threatens to outlaw home schooling in the state. But there are also a few things wo...
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Main Street anxiously awaits outcome of Fed rescue of Bear StearnsMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - The Federal Reserve decided last weekend in the inferno of the financial crisis that Wall Street's major players -- even a smallish and brutish one, Bear Stearns -- are ...
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Bush's lame-duck status could impede foreign policyMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - President Bush seems ready to move back to Texas. There he was singing a jolly farewell at the Gridiron Club dinner recently, a fancy gathering for journalists and thei...