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Justice moves to the back seat
11/6/2009 12:30 AM
Anthony McKinney got a life sentence for running down the street.
The suburban Chicago street down which he ran, on Sept. 15, 1978, took him near the spot where security guard Donald Lundahl had earlier been shot to death. Police, still on the s ...
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11/5/2009 12:31 AM
Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overh ...
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11/4/2009 12:30 AM
According to the South Carolina Ethics Commission there are currently 382 lobbyists that work at the South Carolina State House; 90 of those are paid by the taxpayer.
What exactly does this mean? This means that taxpayer dollars are spent in t ...
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11/3/2009 12:31 AM
Does anyone in Washington tell the truth? Why should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid be believed when he promises states can "opt-out" of a public option on health care? This isn't like opting-out of sex education class. Individuals won't be able t ...
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11/2/2009 12:30 AM
Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
The latest echo of doom arrived a few days ago: U.S. newspaper circulation dropped 10 percent from April through S ...
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11/2/2009 12:30 AM
In the beginning, there was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a fire-breathing Chicago preacher who believes America is a bad place. The reverend and Barack Obama were friends for 20 years.
Radical Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, another Chicago cleric ...
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