Saturday, October 22, 2011

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Mission's end
Editorial: Mission's end

Virtually all U.S. troops will leave Iraq by year's end, nearly nine years after the first American bombs struck Baghdad.

The phone that talks back Editorial: The phone that talks back

With the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple has put artificial intelligence in the hands of millions. Meet Siri, the voice-activated software that allows you to perform tasks on your phone through natural speech.
Cain's glib confusion on just about everything Chapman: Cain's glib confusion on just about everything

For a while during Tuesday's Republican debate, it wasn't clear if Herman Cain was running for president of the United States or the Fruit Vendors Association. Responding to a criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan, Cain said: "This is an example of mixing apples and oranges. The state tax is an apple. We are replacing the current tax code with oranges."
Today's columnists

Business to pols: Shape up Business to pols: Shape up

Illinois is losing the hearts and minds of the people who put people to work here.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

In 1986, "Blade Runner" director Ridley Scott put together a lavish ad called "The Deficit Trials: 2017 A.D." Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the spot (still viewable on YouTube.com) shows angry, shivering urchins crowded into a ruined courtroom. The adults in the scene stand accused of failing to control the deficit before it was too late. "By 1986 the national debt had reached $2 trillion," the kid playing the prosecutor says to the grizzled old man in on the stand. "Didn't that frighten you?" In a contemporaneous news piece, Dan Rather called it a political commercial on "the sticker shock and future shock of deficit spending." …

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