Opinion Stories from August 16, 2013 (Change date)
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Parents, beware of this animation onlineAug 16, 2013 12:45 pm - Today, at this very moment, an 8-year-old child can log onto the Fox Broadcast Co.’s website and access extremely explicit animated content with no parental controls. Th...
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Hardworking Americans are benefiting whom?Aug 16, 2013 5:00 am - The Walton family, sitting on a fortune of $90 billion through their ownership of Wal-Mart stock, paid 15 percent in federal taxes on a dividend payout that was accelera...
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Work to get people out of low-paying jobsAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - In response Donna Brazile’s “People’s contest” column on Aug 9, she writes about a walkout demanding pay raises for fast food employees from $7.50 an hour to $15 an hour...
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Obama policies giving terrorists an edgeAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - How many prisoners were freed from prisons in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan by al-Qaida? No wonder al-Qaida is feeling emboldened! So maybe it was a good idea to leave Isl...
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Editorial: An important milestone for recognizing veteransAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - Last week, Honor Flight Chicago flew its 50th mission — the 50th time they took a planeload of World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the WWII memorial. Since...
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Blame Democrats for sequestrationAug 22, 2013 12:02 pm - In his Aug. 10 letter titled “Budget cutting is destroying the nation,” Tom Teune of Wheaton blames the Republican party for the spending cuts from sequestration. Perhap...
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How government is sold to corporationsAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - Do you wonder why your middle class lifestyle isn’t improving while corporations are making billions and their executives are making obscene salaries? Do you worry about...
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Jackson sentence doesn’t make justiceAug 16, 2013 12:45 pm - What a travesty! Poor Rod Blagojevich gets 15 years for lying and didn’t steal a cent, and Jesse Jackson Jr. gets 2½ years for stealing $750,000. Go figure. To top it of...
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Study Bible with open mindAug 16, 2013 5:00 am - I wanted to respond to Marion Blais’s Aug. 3 letter “Study required to appreciate Bible.” I couldn’t agree more. But which Bible should be studied? Should we be studyi...
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