Perspectives

Limit corporate welfare

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Tea party politicians are denounced for their dangerous antics, but their doomsday warnings about profligate government spending are the conventional wisdom of the so-called “moderates” of big business, the mainstream media and too many politicians of both parties (...

State of the Union: What I needed to hear

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I felt great after the Jan. 27 State of the Union address...

They still don’t love us

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If you thought America would quickly regain the world’s love, admiration and — most important — willingness to follow the U.S. lead once Barack Obama came to power, the news is disappointing. A useful guide to what has transpired comes from Venezuela’s president and ...

FCC breaks Obama’s promise on net neutrality

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On Dec. 21, the FCC passed new rules — written by corporations — that will end net neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person...

Bowl a strike for reproductive freedom

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Everybody knows abortion became legal for all women with the ‘Roe v. Wade’ Supreme Court decision in 1973. Fewer people know that in 1976, poor women lost that fundamental right to determine whether or when to have children. That is the year that the Hyde Amendment (...

A baby step out of the shadows

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Outside a 300,000-squarefoot building in a run-down Aurora neighborhood on Aug. 5, a lively, ethnically diverse crowd of some 80 people marched, sang and chanted...

Harry Potter explores life’s big questions

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  Parents who take their children to see the Harry Potter films enjoy a fun family night. But unless they dig deeper into the stories, parents miss a great opportunity to explore life’s biggest issues with their children...

One good treaty deserves another

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As world leaders gather in...

The Zinn witch hunt continues

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In 2010, after historian Howard Zinn died, then-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sat down at his computer and started a quiet witch hunt with a flurry of emails to top state education officials. This only became public this summer after the Associated Press obtained copies...

Idolatry of Ronald Reagan doesn’t square with his history

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Ronald Reagan, one of America's least-known liberals...

Health care, one more time

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On the most important domestic issues of the day, our two political parties don’t merely lay out competing arguments; they inhabit alternative realities...

If the NRA has its way on gun control …

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It’s a weekday at the Follis household, and 12-year-old non-identical twins Button and Pout are headed downstairs — getting ready for school. This morning, the girls are being “difficult...