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Barbara Brotman
Brotman: Selling the idea of buying less - January 7, 2013 - Is your credit card hung over?
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Steve Chapman
How I spent my sick days - January 13, 2013 - Recently, after a couple of days of feeling a bit run down, I groused to my wife that I didn't feel bad enough to miss work, just bad enough to make work a lot harder than usual. "It might be nice to feel bad enough to have to stay home," I said sardonically.
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Jon Hilkevitch: Getting Around
CTA's off-peak riders yearn for decrowding of their own - January 7, 2013 - When it comes to CTA train sizes, which range from two to eight cars, riders forced to squeeze their way aboard even during non-rush hours are wondering about the long and short of it all.
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John Kass
Jane Doe beaten to death in '11, deserves to be identified - January 13, 2013 - Murder victims don't stop telling their stories. They continue speaking even after death. Not in words, but in healed broken bones and old wounds, or hair and teeth and fingernails.
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Clarence Page
Elite colleges miss the mark - January 13, 2013 - A few years ago, Harvard University startled the academic world by offering what many would call a form of class-based affirmative action.
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Mary Schmich
Seeing a brother more clearly, as he died - January 12, 2013 - I miss my brother.
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Dawn Turner Trice
Dawn Turner Trice: Dance instructor takes steps to overcome illness - January 14, 2013 - You might find Cescily Washington teaching a dance class at a Chicago public school, standing before her young students dressed in her black leotard with her hair pulled back into a bun.
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Eric Zorn
iDeclare: On drunk drivers, 'Redskins' - January 12, 2013 - News reports suggest that U.S. Supreme Court justices were skeptical Wednesday when attorneys for the Justice Department and the state of Missouri asked them to OK warrantless, compulsory blood tests of motorists pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.
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American Voices
Joel Brinkley: Vietnam is a country to watch - January 8, 2013 - DA NANG, Vietnam -- A mystery pervades this part of the world.
Dennis Byrne
The same old fiscal train wreck - January 8, 2013 - Here's the essence of the deal that the White House and Congress reached to pull America back from the fiscal cliff:
Meghan Daum
Hillary Clinton's next drama - January 11, 2013 - Watching Hillary Rodham Clinton's exit from the State Department is a little like watching the season-ending episode of a popular television series that may not come back the next year. As loyal as its viewers are, there are always wary network executives and even exhausted writers and producers...
Jonah Goldberg
Biden's faulty lifeguard logic - January 11, 2013 - "As the president said, if your actions result in only saving one life, they're worth taking," Vice President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday as he previewed what his commission on gun violence might actually do.
Victor Davis Hanson
When big deficits became good - January 10, 2013 - As a senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama said that he detested budget deficits. In 2006, when the aggregate national debt was almost $8 trillion less than today, he blasted George W. Bush's chronic borrowing and refused to vote for upping the debt ceiling: "Increasing America's...
Arianna Huffington
Devices linking us to our inner world are next tech frontier - January 9, 2013 - Greetings from Las Vegas, where I've landed in the midst of a perfect storm. I'm not talking about the weather -- it's a crisp, beautiful day here. No, I'm talking about one of those moments in which several trends converge to create something larger, a moment we will look back on as the time...
Charles Krauthammer
The roots of mass murder - December 24, 2012 - — Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere.
Robert Koehler
Unarmed empowerment - January 10, 2013 - "But my instinct was that if someone is shooting at you, it is generally better to shoot back than to cower and pray."
Kathleen Parker
Print's longtime passing - January 2, 2013 - — It is comforting to think of death as a passing rather than an end. In that vein, I prefer to think of Steve Jobs' final words as editorial commentary: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
William Pfaff
Continued American presence in Afghanistan a recipe for more disaster - January 8, 2013 - PARIS -- The United States has adopted the mission of "global security provider," according to the most recent Defense Department quadrennial strategy statement. This is a self-nominated role as custodian of a (prospective) global order based on American democracy and capitalism, meant...
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
How black is black enough? - January 13, 2013 - I suddenly find myself concerned about my blackness.
Bill Press
Smear a bagel, not Chuck Hagel - January 10, 2013 - OK, I want to admit right up front: I stole that headline. No, it's not original with me. I stole it from the pro-Israel, pro-peace organization J Street. I stole it because it's funny. And because it perfectly sums up the phony, trumped-up campaign against Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense.
Mary Sanchez
Conversation on gun violence excludes a key perspective -- that of most likely victims - January 11, 2013 - In the aftermath of the Newtown shootings, the national conversation on gun control is supposedly getting serious. To me, it looks like both sides are sticking to their familiar entrenchments. Still, there are glimmers of hope that some commonsense gun-law reforms can squeak through our...
Cal Thomas
Hagel and defense - January 10, 2013 - Biography isn't policy. President Obama's choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, former Nebraska Republican senator, has a resume most politicians can envy: a clean senatorial record, no ethical lapses and two purple hearts from a war many opposed and many more tried to avoid.
Jules Witcover
The NRA digs in - January 13, 2013 - WASHINGTON -- When Vice President Joe Biden invited the National Rifle Association to the White House the other day to join in the Obama administration's post-Newtown talks on ways to counter gun violence, it was like letting the fox into the chicken coop.
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