Articles filed under Opinion
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Does Trump know what it means to preach law and order?Aug 30, 2016 1:00 am - So far, Donald Trump's outreach to African-Americans has consisted of stereotyping them as impoverished, as attending failed schools and as unemployed, and then asking w...
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Medicare experiment would turn Illinois seniors into guinea pigsAug 29, 2016 1:00 am - Robin Madsen is exhausted from her ongoing battle with breast cancer. "I wouldn't want to drive in the condition I'm in," admitted the Elgin resident. Thanks to the Ame...
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Olympic family's group hug says it allAug 27, 2016 2:00 pm - It was the group hug that got to me. While the Jager kids were growing up, a group hug was a weekly family ritual. Parents Cathy and Joel encouraged it, of course, but t...
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Stories show it's not just wrong to lie; it's dumbAug 26, 2016 1:00 am - By Georgie Anne Geyer Newspaper commentators are not known for writing about lying. Such reproaches are up to our beloved mothers, who somehow never ... ever ... let go ...
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Challenge for public policy is to match resources with goalsAug 26, 2016 1:00 am - Recently, the Los Angeles Times polled how Americans felt about poverty generally, and programmatic approaches to reducing poverty specifically. When asked why current e...
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This time Hillary's 'heel' wound may be fatalAug 25, 2016 1:00 am - When I wrote the headline "Hillary's heel," I was thinking of Achilles, not Bill, though the former president is usually within nipping range of his wife's pantsuit hem....
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Here's how to make your voice heard on electionsAug 25, 2016 1:00 am - With Election Day now barely more than two months away, our letters columns soon will be teeming with the passions of citizens hoping to influence the votes of their fri...
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He is who he isAug 24, 2016 1:00 am - By Cokie Roberts And Steven V. Roberts The New York Times detailed how Donald Trump's advisers had pleaded with him to become a more disciplined, credible candidate. "Mr...
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Gingrich says Trump, media running a 'baloney machine'Aug 24, 2016 1:00 am - It's no secret Donald Trump's supporters wish he would spend more time in his public appearances focused on issues and less on the offhand remarks that have gotten him i...
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Shifting blame for a Trump loss helps no oneAug 23, 2016 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson With defeat now the likely outcome for the Republican presidential nominee, the blame shifting has begun early and in earnest. To some partisans such ...