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Dennis Byrne
Dennis Byrne is a Chicago Tribune op-ed columnist. dennis@dennisbyrne.net.Subscribe to Dennis Byrne RSS Article Feed.
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- Beware the Climate Change Alarmists - November 13, 2009
- In the next few weeks we'll be relentlessly scrubbed with eyewash, brainwash and hogwash, all designed to cleanse us of any doubts that global warming is a proven menace...
- Gov't Shouldn't Control Health Decisions - Chicago Tribune - September 8, 2009
- While the hawker in chief chilled on Martha's Vineyard, we enjoyed a week of peace and quiet, but now President Barack Obama has accelerated back to full voice as he...
- Facing Up to Reality - July 29, 2009
- President Barack Obama's effort to sell Americans on his economic policies isn't working because his own campaign strategy has returned to haunt him. That strategy was...
- Keep Yucca Mountain Project Alive - May 14, 2009
- While President Barack Obama's newly proposed budget would finally allow Nevada to rid itself of a nuclear waste dump planned to be buried in tunnels deep under Yucca...
- Ta-dah! Softhearted Interrogation Skills - April 29, 2009
- While reading those controversial, recently declassified memos that provide the Bush administration's legal justification for "torturing" terrorist detainees, I...
- Government, UAW Take Over the Auto Industry - April 29, 2009
- As the future of the domestic auto industry becomes clearer Tuesday, it appears that an unprecedented government and organized labor partnership would end up running the...
- Is Obama Reaching Too Far Too Quickly? - February 25, 2009
- Obama's schedule this week includes a White House fiscal policy summit Monday, a speech to Congress on Tuesday and the unveiling of his budget Thursday.Potomac...
- Slow Drip of Financial Ruin - February 18, 2009
- I once had a college sociology professor--Bud Bloomberg, a man as liberal as you could find--who fulminated against slapdash solutions to society's problems. First,...
- Best Stimulus: Homebuyers' Tax Credit - January 28, 2009
- It will prove to be about as effective at reigniting the economy as the TARP program has been, which is to say a criminal waste of taxpayers' money for generations to...
- Blago Tries to Box In Reid - December 31, 2008
- Although Burris was elected to those offices several times by comfortable majorities, he had failed in recent attempts at higher office, as governor (running...
- Illinois Has Long Been For Sale - December 10, 2008
- True, the extent and audacity of Blagojevich's alleged illegalities are remarkable even for Illinois. No one has been caught trying to kill an $8 million state grant to...
- Bailout Spending is Out of Control - November 29, 2008
- That's just in one day. Who knows what Wednesday will bring?Consider: President George W. Bush has been passionately faulted for "breaking the bank" by conducting the...
- A Turn in the Housing Market? - October 25, 2008
- Could this be a turnaround? Let's look at another NAR measure: its "pending sales of existing homes" index most forward-looking barometer of residential sales because it...
- The Aura of Mr. Smooth - October 22, 2008
- Those of us with below-average sensibilities can only ponder how Obama has managed to establish a cult of personality the way no other presidential candidate has, except...
- Can't Fight Aura of Mr. Smooth - Chicago Tribune - October 21, 2008
- Failure to Convince the American People - Chicago Tribune - September 30, 2008
- A Failure to Convince the American People - September 30, 2008
- We who hesitate are lost. On top of that, the public was asked to pick its poison immediately, without congressional hearings, extensive public debate or any other...
- Obama Sidesteps Reform in Illinois - September 17, 2008
- State Sen. Emil Jones (D-Chicago) is the Chicago machine politician who might have been most instrumental in jump-starting Obama's political career. Now, as Illinois...
- Voters Should be Troubled by Obama's Abortion Stance - August 27, 2008
- Jill Stanek, a former nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, described in 2001 during congressional testimony how it happens: In a "live-birth abortion," doctors "do not...
- More Trouble in Obama's Backyard - August 16, 2008
- His stunt is to bus as many Chicago public school students as possible on the first day of school to New Trier High School, which serves Chicago's wealthy North Shore...
- No Good Reason to Spike McCain's Op-Ed - July 25, 2008
- Although I have never worked for the Times, I hope that I'm still entitled to some thoughts about its conduct. My labors at three Chicago papers have included membership...
- Obama's Cash, Spin Piling Up - Chicago Tribune - July 7, 2008
- Moderation Supreme in Gun Decision - Chicago Tribune - June 30, 2008
- Decision Came From a Tyrannical Court - Chicago Tribune - May 19, 2008