Chicago Sun-Times

How mayor can bring hope to city’s disadvantaged students

Thu, 02 May 2013 02:26:01 -0500

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?

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:25:09 -0500

BY ROGER SIMON. What psychologists who have worked with law enforcement say about identifying potential attackers.

Gay marriage law isn’t a Baptist fight

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:25:27 -0500

BY REV. LARRY L. GREENFIELD. Having government impose one idea of marriage on everyone violates Baptists principles.

The Gomers get Boston all wrong

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:36:50 -0500

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

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:36:50 -0500

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

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:38:17 -0500

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

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:32:12 -0500

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:22:13 -0500

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

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:21:55 -0500

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

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 02:49:55 -0500

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

Media silent on abortion horror

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:10:07 -0500

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

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:34:46 -0500

BY LAURIE REYNOLDS.

Investment in early childhood learning paying off

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:09:58 -0500

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:24:03 -0500

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

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:21:03 -0500

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:18:00 -0500

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

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:12:09 -0500

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. She was the favorite in 2008, too. She had the media coverage and the superstar status and the poll numbers all in her favor. But a guy named Barack Obama came along and ran anyway. Heck, in 2008 Hillary couldn’t freeze out Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, John Edwards or Joe Biden. They all ran. So …

Mona Charen: Thatcher was great leader but feminists loathed her

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:45:19 -0500

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 into something else. The president’s statement praises Thatcher as one the “great champions of freedom and liberty” and observes “she stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered.” So today we all celebrate Margaret Thatcher as a feminist icon? This is revisionism of a high order. …