Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Opinion Express

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Creative destruction

Before he entered politics, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a fortune at Bain Capital, the private-equity firm he ran from 1984 to 1999.

Editorial: Project Sieve

Project Shield had a catchy name and a post-9/11 strategy that sounded right: Place cameras in police squad cars and other strategic places to help first responders react quickly to a terrorist attack. Give them wireless capabilities to quickly communicate text and video information in a major disaster.

Byrne: Protesters, get a grip

Chicago's aging hippy, dippy yippies and their spawn have a legitimate point in their opposition to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's crackdown on potentially violent public protests. By anticipating such conduct at May's G-8 and NATO summits here, do the new proposed rules infringe on the constitutional right of free assembly?

Today's columnists

A worthy challenger Krauthammer: A worthy challenger

After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum.

Thomas: My brother's valuable life

How does one measure whether a life was a success, or a failure?


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