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The Gomers  get Boston  all wrong

BY GENE LYONS. Anybody who thinks Boston’s a city of Perrier-sipping pantywaists has clearly spent no time there.

Gov. Quinn’s shameless pandering

BY SCOTT REEDER. Senate Bill 1894 raises the senior homestead exemption from $4,000 to $5,000. But it’s not a tax break. It’s a shift to other taxpayers.

Islamic terrorism gets a pass from liberals

BY MONA CHAREN. The hatred that Islamism preaches, lauds and inspires is a nuisance, liberals may concede. But they think the hatred in the heart of “white America” is the greater danger.

U.S. not safer with Obama as president

BY MONA CHAREN. The Obama administration has fled from the concept of a struggle against Islamic terrorism.

David Orr: Here’s Harold — a trailblazing mayor

What today’s generation of young Chicagoans should know about Harold Washington: The former Chicago mayor was a trailblazer and a warrior. And his watchword was fairness.

Roger Simon: Rebuilding a reputation at the White House Correspondents Association dinner

To me, the White House Correspondents Association dinner feels like a night at which a couple of thousand people drink heavily and try to look sober whenever C-SPAN cameras pan by them.

Mona Charen: Obama wrong on preventing gun violence

BY MONA CHAREN: President Barack Obama doesn’t care about dead children.

Media silent on abortion horror

BY KIRSTEN POWERS. You don’t have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abortion abhorrent. Too bad the news media don’t cover it.

PENSION PLANS  IN TIME OF CRISIS

BY LAURIE REYNOLDS.

Investment in early childhood learning paying off

BY RAHM EMANUEL. The question is not whether to invest in the critical, early years of a child’s education, but how we invest in the highest quality options.

Let’s find common ground on guns

BY SHEILA SIMON. Everyone in Illinois must abide by the same gun laws. But they come at the issue of gun ownership and usage from different perspectives.

Charter school wars hurting all children

BY GREG RICHMOND. The rhetoric of charter schools has become a political football, used by self-serving politicians of every stripe, at the expense of children who deserve and need better.

Scott Phelps: Kids don’t need explicit sex ed

BY SCOTT PHELPS. Illinois legislators want to require all schools that teach abstinence-until-marriage as the optimal health outcome to also teach teens to use contraception.

Roger Simon: Dr. Politics looks at Hillary Clinton

Ask Dr. Politics! You are fair and I am unbalanced: Q: Hillary Clinton has 2016 locked up, right? A: No. Q: But she is such a favorite she will freeze out potential Democratic opponents! A: She will not. Q: How come? A: Because she can’t. …

Mona Charen: Thatcher was great leader but feminists loathed her

President Barack Obama’s statement honoring Margaret Thatcher was an example of the chameleon-like nature of liberalism. Rewriting history is a liberal specialty. Just as the anti-Cold War liberals were miraculously transformed into cold warriors after the war had been won, yesterday’s anti-Thatcherites are today morphing …

Alex Seitz-Wald: Science, says Rush, is a Democratic plot

On his show Thursday, Rush Limbaugh hosted a climate expert to explain how global warming is “a hoax.” Sorry, did we say climate expert? We meant a 13-year-old kid from Indiana. The young man called into Limbaugh’s show and said he had done his own …

Mona Charen: Liberals squirm to defend abortion

It’s a deeply felt conviction among liberals that they are the caring party. It’s not too much to say that liberals are quite confident that they are nicer, more moral people than conservatives. It must require truly titanic powers of denial for the “moral” and …