Articles filed under Opinion
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Times still intent on suppressing speech, except for its ownSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Two days before Christmas in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, visiting the Vatican, presented Pope Paul VI with a foot-high bust of Lyndon Johnson. Small choices can reve...
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GOP's risk in opposing expanded child health careSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - The spectacle Tuesday of 151 House Republicans voting in lock step with the White House against expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was on...
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Even with rate cut, dark clouds still hover over financial marketsSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - "If something is 'unsustainable,' that means it won't be sustained." This bit of financial wisdom is attributed to the late Herbert Stein, a former chairman of the Counc...
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History, ethnic strife suggests it's time to partition IraqSep 25, 2007 11:00 pm - The creation of modern India and Pakistan entailed the uprooting of more than 12 million people. Bangladesh was ripped from Pakistan. The creation of Republika Srpska, a...
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Colleges get poor grades in teaching civics and historySep 24, 2007 11:00 pm - For the second year in a row, America's elite universities and colleges have failed to rise above a "D plus" on tests of basic knowledge about civics and American histor...
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Columns missed big picture on prosecutor's officeSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Bianchi is the McHenry County state's attorney. Recently, two articles by the same columnist have been critical of the use of the state's attorney's petty cash acco...
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No one involved in the 'Jena 6' case comes off very wellSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - When I first heard of the "Jena 6" -- African-American teens in a small Louisiana town charged with beating a white classmate -- my instinct was to side with those screa...
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Columns missed big picture on prosecutor's officeSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - Bianchi is the McHenry County state's attorney. Recently, two articles by the same columnist have been critical of the use of the state's attorney's petty cash account a...
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Recent U.S. success in Anbar province raises two questionsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bush administration has been so enthusiastic in touting its new alliance with Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province that it's easy to overlook two questions: Why di...
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Hispanic Heritage Month brings new understandingSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Hispanic Heritage Month only started a few days ago and already it has produced an epiphany. It came from an unexpected source: a concert by Mexican superstar Luis Migue...