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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Sociology, Elections
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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...Tags: Government, Germany, Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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Rex Scouten dies at 88; longtime White House chief usher
Rex Scouten, whose 48-year career in the White House began with the Trumans and ended with the Clintons, and whose duties included helping first families transition to their oversized new home, died Feb. 20 at a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Va. He...Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Harry S. Truman, Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, U.S. Army
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Cermak's death offers lesson in Chicago Way
The assassinated Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who died 80 years ago this week, is often portrayed by official histories as just an innocent victim of bad luck and bad aim. But Chicagoans don't believe in coincidences, not even us chumbolones,...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Prisons, Chicago Mayor, Shootings, Kelsey Grammer
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Greatest generation the most entitled
One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we...
Tags: Government, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress, Tom Brokaw
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Obama should free Pollard
President Barack Obama's forthcoming trip to Israel affords him a special opportunity to mend political fences and guarantee a warm popular reception in that country, while at the same time ensuring that justice is served here at home. These are goals...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Congress, Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Why Democrats must get smarter on entitlements
In a season of depressing budget news, the worst may have been that a majority of U.S. House Democrats signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to oppose any benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements. That's the...Tags: Prices, Government Health Care, Retirement, Lyndon B. Johnson, Insurance
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Amid Stark State Cuts, A Father's Plea: Who Will Care for Katie?
The Hartford CourantI am the father of a 28-year-old intellectually disabled daughter. Her name is Katie; she lives at home with my wife, Donna and me. She is the love of our lives and we embrace the gifts she brings to us and to all who know her. Like so many other...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Wethersfield, Politics
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Muirs have lived in old Red Oak for 53 years
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comEighty-three-year-old Bill Muir is still in school. He’s not listening to lectures or writing papers or taking spelling tests, but he spends most of his waking hours — and all his sleeping ones — in the same building he attended school... -
Around Town: Community will miss Hannah Tomita
Last Saturday, several hundred of us attended a memorial service for Hannah Tomita. Hannah and her husband, Eiji, opened Eiji's Flowers in 1959. It's one of the oldest businesses in La Caņada. Others have written about Hannah's talents as a designer,...
Tags: Human Interest, U.S. Army
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Gatsby, Galbraith and the myth of Coolidge's crash
What's next after the Oscars? More Gatsby, of course. "The Great Gatsby," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and coming in May, will be the fourth, or by some counts the fifth or sixth, movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the illusion created by...Tags: Government, Federal Reserve, Productivity, Rentals, Dow Jones Industrial Average
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New Deal-era mural restored for Park Ridge Library
After being saved from an attic where it was stored for 38 years and a four-year fundraising effort to pay for restoration, a Depression-era mural was unveiled Saturday in its new home at the Park Ridge Public Library. Calling it the second of Park...
Tags: Renovation, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Apr 7, 2013
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Apr 7, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 7, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Mar 1, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 1, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Jessamine Journal
Feb 27, 2013
|Story| La Caņada
Feb 27, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Feb 25, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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