Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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British PM risks isolation to protect financial services

British Prime Minister David Cameron bills himself as a "euro-skeptic," but "closet Chicagoan" might be a more apt description.

Reasonable doubt exists in Holly Staker slaying

Juan Rivera has spent nearly two decades in prison for the 1992 sexual assault and stabbing murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan. He has been convicted three times by jury, largely because he confessed to the crime.

Americans would benefit from a Muslim version of the Huxtables

A conservative Christian group has launched a boycott against "All-American Muslim." The TLC cable TV reality show about Muslim families in America fails to live down to the group's narrow-minded stereotypes. Their gripe, in my view, makes about as much sense as boycotting "The Cosby Show" back in the day because it didn't mention black street gangs.

2012: The year in preview

"Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to."

Four reporters may have saved pension abuse legislation

We don't expect the perpetrators — a slew of Democrats in the Illinois House — to confess. But let's all remember what they nearly achieved in Springfield late Sunday afternoon, when half of Illinois was shopping and the other half was watching the Chicago Bears.


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