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Steve Huntley is a commentary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of its editorial board.

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Let market solve our energy needs

The idea of central planning — that smart people at the center of power can manipulate society to achieve good ends — is appealing. But it doesn’t work, as history offers up many examples, most notably in the mass famines of the Soviet Union’s collective …

Bill Daley’s D.C. reforms go too far

The gridlock, bickering and small ball ruling Washington these days have former White House chief of staff Bill Daley worried that government is so hobbled by systemic flaws that big reforms are required. Maybe, but then again maybe not. In a Chicago speech, Daley backed …

Dems can’t hide Obama’s failings

The no-holds-barred Democratic machine is laboring overtime to come up with reasons voters should re-elect President Barack Obama. He’s more likeable than Mitt Romney. The presumptive GOP nominee is a right-wing extremist. The cool, hip Obama has the women and youth vote locked up. In …

Liberals take aim at free speech

The Constitution is under attack from the very people who claim to be fierce advocates of civil rights — liberals. Their goal is to restrict the very first amendment the Founders attached to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights — the one saying Congress …

In drug war, give peace a chance

‘Legalization is not the answer,” President Barack Obama told Latin-American leaders complaining that U.S. demand for drugs is fueling the appalling violence and rampant corruption from the narcotics production and trafficking in their countries. Well, as has become painfully obvious, the war on drugs isn’t …

‘The Killing’ no longer killer TV

After three weeks of watching, I’m trying, really trying, to like the second season of the mystery series “The Killing,” but it’s starting to look like a losing battle. Last year’s premiere of the stylish, intelligent, well-written and well-acted AMC channel drama left legions of …

The ‘Buffett rule’ won’t create jobs

Democrats and President Barack Obama have talked a lot about “fairness” and “income inequality” in promoting their new tax on Americans they demonize as the unworthy rich. But there’s no discussion about how their “Buffett rule” would provide the best antidote for the wealth gap …

Obama gets court ‘activism’ wrong

His outburst last week wasn’t the first time President Barack Obama had attacked the Supreme Court. His verbal swipe at the high court in his 2010 State of the Union message was prompted, like his recent harsh words, by the justices’ daring to question the …

Obama’s bullying of court shameful

The White House spent the week digging out from President Barack Obama’s ill-conceived remarks about the Supreme Court and its deliberations over his health-care law. “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law …

Beware Obama second term

If the anxiety wasn’t high enough among Republican leaders and officeholders for Mitt Romney to register a big win in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, President Barack Obama raised the stakes with last week’s open-microphone statement that he looked forward to a second term that would give …

When outrage is real and justified

Outrage often is the knee-jerk response in the Age of the Internet and 24/7 Cable TV if for no other reason than it reduces to a nanosecond the time between forming a thought and expressing it to the whole world. When was the last time …

Voters should rule on Obamacare

The high-stakes legal and political drama engulfing the arguments about the landmark health insurance law before the U.S. Supreme Court this week tends to overshadow the possibility, albeit remote, that the court might kick the dispute down the road for a few years. But would …

Obamacare on trial: May it lose

No matter where you may stand on President Barack Obama’s controversial health-care law, one point is indisputable: It is an expansion of the power of the federal government into our everyday lives. That is the fundamental issue in next week’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme …

Why voters blame Obama for gas price

‘The fuel of the past” is how President Barack Obama describes oil. But in the here and now for millions of middle-class and lower-income Americans, oil is very much the fuel of today, and a trip to the gas pump drills deeper into the wallet …

Best bet for GOP: Mitt win in Illinois

Illinois, so used to being an afterthought in presidential nominating primaries, finds itself in the surprising position of being able to make a difference this time in the Republican race. That’s not to say Tuesday’s vote will be decisive — the way the 2012 GOP …

No reason to stay in Afghanistan

The weekend atrocity in Afghanistan was a criminal act, the work of a deranged individual, an isolated incident unconnected to the over-arching policy issues that have tied down the United States in Afghanistan for a decade. Yet . . . Somehow the murder of 16 …

Back up words on Iran with action

Words, to be effective, have to be backed up by deeds — especially tough words. That’s all the more true of military threats, and in his recent comments about Iran and Israel, President Barack Obama explicitly referred to armed force as the last resort to …

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