Articles filed under Opinion
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Musings about Drew, contracts and Route 59May 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Some random thoughts from your friendly DuPage editor, a Friday Soapbox, if you will ... We're on the case In case you didn't notice, our coverage of the Drew Peterson ...
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California's dependency cultureMay 21, 2009 11:00 pm - California, the sunny incubator of America's future, has relished its role as a leading indicator of political trends. Tuesday it became what it thinks it should be, the...
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Newspaper must not forget ideals in pressing issuesMay 20, 2009 11:00 pm - There is still room for ideals in society. Even in Illinois government. Managing Editor Madeleine Doubek reminded me of this recently as we were discussing various eleme...
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Feelings about torture are tied to circumstancesMay 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Earlier this month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value t...
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Greed's saving graces in the marketplaceMay 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Greed, we are agreed, is bad. It also is strange. It has long been included among the Seven Deadly Sins, which suggests it is a universal and perennial facet of the huma...
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What would Goldwater say to conservatives?May 14, 2009 11:00 pm - As if the Republicans weren't having enough trouble with defectors, they've gone on a purge. There was Dick Cheney on "Face the Nation." Asked to pick between Rush Limba...
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Cheney might be right about torture, safetyMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Blogger Alert: I have a written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think that e...
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Don't take offense, it's just a jokeMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - There's nothing un-funnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning. Which is why we shouldn't quarterback a comedian over coffee ...
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Old is new again in upside-down economic policiesMay 09, 2009 11:00 pm - From Oct. 18 to Dec. 3, 1961, 116,000 people visited New York's Museum of Modern Art before anyone noticed that Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau" had been hung upside...
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When rationing may be rationalMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - I was not surprised by the president's story. Health care reform is not just a matter of spreadsheets and patient charts. It's a repository of personal narratives we car...