Opinion Columns
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GOP: Stop being so negativeNov 03, 2013 5:00 am - The American political class is facing a perfect storm of public contempt. Congressional Republicans have proved themselves divided and incapable of adopting a coherent...
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Reversing the GOP ‘death spiral’Nov 01, 2013 5:00 am - When Ronald Reagan won the White House in 1980, the electorate was 88 percent white. Last year, only 72 percent of the voters casting ballots for president were white, a...
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A question of competenceOct 31, 2013 5:00 am - Where is Casey Stengel when we need him? In 1962 as the manager of the brand new and determinedly hapless New York Mets — 40 wins, 120 losses — he looked up and down his...
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School Checker expands your power on schoolsOct 31, 2013 5:00 am - Information, it is said, is power, and in that vein, today we're giving you a profound boost toward control of your local schools. The annual School Report Card, as our...
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The White House Comedy ClubOct 30, 2013 5:00 am - While the nation’s attention has been riveted on the Keystone Congress, the executive branch was busy developing its own comedy routine. Picture the cast (you know the c...
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Putting aside race to focus on characterOct 30, 2013 5:00 am - Months after the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman controversy has faded from the front pages and the TV cameras have moved on to other spectacles, I remain concerned that...
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How to improve the road aheadOct 29, 2013 5:00 am - One of the more amazing spectacles in the days after the government shutdown ended was the obsession in Washington with who won and who lost in the showdown. Yes, the ca...
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Syria’s brutality continues at willOct 29, 2013 5:00 am - While chemical weapons disarmament proceeds in Syria, so do mass attacks on civilians. In the eastern suburbs of Damascus, where the regime used sarin, it now conducts a...
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Belief in God’s work calls us to support the immigrantsOct 27, 2013 5:00 am - If you told me 10 years ago that I would be writing about immigration reform, I never would have believed you. The issue of immigration, however, has landed in our churc...
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Hooked on politics after one night in ’60Oct 25, 2013 5:00 am - On Nov. 4, 1960, I was a freshman at the University of Illinois-Navy Pier. I was not very political, though I had been following the presidential campaign between John K...