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Steve Huntley biography
Steve Huntley is a commentary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of its editorial board.
He served as editor of the editorial page …
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GOP enthusiasm gap gone by Nov.
Democrats are chortling over the chaos in the Republican presidential race. Mitt Romney’s up one week, and down the next with another race recording an upset over the presumptive front-runner. Still, a fierce current of alarm over President Barack Obama’s policies courses through the conservative …Read More
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Obama’s trespass on religious liberty
Conservative complaints of expansive, constitutionally suspect government over-reach under President Barack Obama often are dismissed by liberals as unwarranted. Now those warnings are being realized as the Obama administration trespasses on the fundamental American principle of religious freedom and tolerance by imposing its mandates on …Read More
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Why is Romney the way he is?
Mitt Romney finds himself in a familiar position. He’s back as the front-runner in the Republican presidential sweepstakes. And he has the conservative commentariat again barking at his heels demanding that he prove he is an authentic man of the right by advocating a bold …Read More
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Mideast shapes presidential race
Americans are increasingly absorbed in presidential politics, and President Barack Obama wants to shift defense/foreign policy strategic emphasis to the Asian/Pacific region. But the Middle East persists as the part of the world where Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arab-Spring-turned-winter …
Obama and Gingrich spew a cheap populism
President Barack Obama attacks successful wealthy Americans — Think Mitt Romney — and Wall Street. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich abuses “elites” in the media, Washington and New York, and private equity capitalists, specifically naming Romney. A president running for re-election and a leading contender …
Newt knows how to throw red meat
South Carolina Republicans selected as their choice for the presidential nomination a politician whose campaign operation is so inept it failed to get him on the primary ballot in his home state. Palmetto Republicans deemed the most electable in the GOP presidential field to be …
Web piracy battle is tough call; losing Wikipedia made big impact
Wow. It’s hard to remember a single protest event touching as many lives as Wednesday’s cyberspace howl against legislation in Congress to stop online piracy of U.S. movies, TV, music and books. No research could be done on the English language version of Wikipedia as …
Each candidate’s a different GOP
Though Mitt Romney looks like a prohibitive favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, four other contenders are pinning their hopes to emerge as the not-Romney candidate on South Carolina’s primary Saturday. The conventional wisdom is that the race remains unresolved because the field is weak. …
Romney business record a success
The bitter tone of the campaign leading up to South Carolina’s primary on Jan. 21 gives the contest the feel of a last-gasp drive by a couple of opponents to stop by any means Mitt Romney from securing the Republican presidential nomination. Former House Speaker …
A worrisome loss for Constitution
The White House and Democrats are taking a political victory lap over President Barack Obama’s “recess” appointment of a chief for a new consumer advocacy agency. It’s a triumph for the middle class, they crow. Actually it’s an abuse of executive authority that thinking Democrats …
Mitt knows it’s the economy, folks
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is entering the make-or-break phase. Will Mitt Romney finally win over enough conservatives to nail down the nomination in a few weeks? Or will social conservatives finally coalesce around one candidate, perhaps Iowa surprise Rick Santorum, to force …
Fix Medicare, ignore scare talk
I’m old enough to remember when cars came without seat belts, when a gallon of gasoline could be had for a little more than two bits, and when a stamp cost a nickel. My first full-time job after college paid $100 a week, a nice …
Emanuel ready for the worst
The Chicago commitment to host the G-8 and NATO summits in May testifies to the bold and big-shoulders spirit of the city. It also has on occasion skirted close to bravado in tending to be dismissive of the potential for anti-capitalist protesters to wreak havoc …
Palestinian state would expel Jews
Buried in news stories about the conviction on a former president of Israel on rape charges was a telling insight into the Jewish state: The three-judge panel that convicted Moshe Katsav and the three-judge tribunal that rejected his appeal each had a justice who is …
Christians are under fire in the historic Holy Land
This Christmas weekend we’ll see many newspaper and broadcast accounts of Christian pilgrims flocking to sacred places in the Holy Land. The unhappy counterpoint to that is the reality that Christians are increasingly relegated to the role of pilgrims in the Middle East and not …
Havel versus Kim: Legacies far apart
On occasion history gives us a lesson written in outsized examples — rarely more so than this weekend in the deaths of two men with astonishingly divergent legacies, one a champion of human freedom, the other an agent of murderous oppression of his fellow human …
Despite uncertainty, U.S. succeeded in Iraq
The Iraq war came to a formal end Thursday, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta crediting U.S. troops for “the remarkable progress” achieved there. Success properly describes what American forces accomplished in combat at great cost in lives and treasure. Now comes in diplomacy and soft …
One year for GOP to pull it together
President Barack Obama and Democrats must be feeling pretty good about his re-election prospects, and with good reason at this moment in time. Republicans started out with a weak field, momentum has swung to a candidate with problematical prospects in November and one contender in …
Obama on jobs: Words, not action
President Barack Obama rolled out his 2012 campaign theme the other day, a populist message with the tired mantra of Republicans as the party of the wealthy while casting himself as the defender of the middle class. “This is a make-or-break moment for the middle …
Flip-flopping can be learning curve
The conventional wisdom about Republicans is that they place defeating President Barack Obama as their top priority. It’s sometimes been hard to credit that view when Republicans flirt with the likes of Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain and vault them to the top of the …
