Opinion Stories from August 22, 2012 (Change date)
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“Legitimate rape”Aug 22, 2012 10:35 am - Rep. Todd Akin is staying in the Missouri Senate race, notwithstanding the calls of many fellow Republicans that he step aside after flaunting his ignorance about anatom...
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Editorial: Congress needs to OK Thomson prison sale to fedsAug 22, 2012 9:21 am - In this ultra-divisive era of national politics, we have applauded those occasions when our Illinois delegation in Congress has banded together to work for the common go...
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Unions demanding more than they shouldAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - Perhaps someone more knowledgeable then I can fill me in: Why doesn’t everyone who receives a paycheck (including the president, members of Congress and all public emplo...
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Punish those who spent pension fundAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - Don Rowley’s letter in the July 22 Fence Post (“Teachers have paid their fair share”) is on target! I surely agree with it. I Would like to add, however, that any legisl...
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Dold an advocate for educationAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - I was happy to see Congressman Robert Dold was endorsed by the NEA-IEA, a teachers union, recently. As a high school student, I’m happy there are people in government li...
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Support Obama’s jobs legislationAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - India is suffering the worst electrical blackout in history. Its electrical grid failed because it had not been updated and improved to handle increasing demands. In oth...
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Convention yawners? Not this yearAug 22, 2012 12:34 pm - Let’s be honest. There hasn’t been an interesting national political convention since 1976. But at a minimum, this year’s conventions will give us guns, strippers, a se...
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Walsh’s refusal to compromise is harmfulAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - I saw a political cartoon in the Daily Herald comparing Republicans to teenagers who complain and criticize, and never come up with constructive solutions of their own. ...
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Speak out against rising property taxesAug 22, 2012 5:00 am - My residential home property tax this year is up 20 percent, and last year it was hiked 19.6 percent. We had no improvements and used homeowners and senior citizen exemp...
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Quinn’s misguided sense of justiceAug 22, 2012 4:50 am - Quinn’s misguided sense of justice I don’t understand some of Gov. Quinn’s solutions. OK, he wants to ban assault weapons in Illinois. No problem. He is going down ...
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