otherviews
-
How mayor can bring hope to city’s disadvantaged students
BY REBECA NIEVES HUFFMAN, KEVIN P. CHAVOUS AND JOHN RUSSELL. How mayor can bring hope to city’s disadvantaged students.
-
Would you turn in a bomber son?
BY ROGER SIMON. What psychologists who have worked with law enforcement say about identifying potential attackers.
-
Gay marriage law isn’t a Baptist fight
BY REV. LARRY L. GREENFIELD. Having government impose one idea of marriage on everyone violates Baptists principles.
Search recent columns
More Columns
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.
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 …
