Opinion Stories from August 6, 2011 (Change date)
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The unknown heroes hiding among usAug 06, 2011 3:01 am - I had dinner last week with a friend whose name, for reasons that will be obvious, I can’t say. I can’t say exactly where he works or what he does. When I ask his wife a...
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Quinn’s veto hinders DuPage educatorsAug 06, 2011 3:01 am - We teach our students that one of the primary responsibilities of the executive branch of government in the United States is to enforce the law. Our students and teacher...
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‘Made in America’ brought prosperityAug 06, 2011 3:01 am - “The job market is defying history,” your article in the Business section says. It further states that unemployment has risen for three straight months. Economists are i...
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Obama’s plans could destroy the economyAug 06, 2011 3:01 am - In the game of hearts, occasionally, a player has such a full hand of high cards that he may actually attempt to take all the hearts, a very risky way to win (or lose) b...
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Get the facts on taxes, debtAug 06, 2011 3:01 am - Dear tea party, I have a little history lesson for you. 1. The Boston Tea Party was not about high taxes, the taxes on tea were actually lower than the smuggled tea the...
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Third Blago trial? Get seriousAug 06, 2011 6:18 am - After former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted of 17 of 20 charges against him, there was a lot of oinking from him and his lawyers claiming judicial bias in his bid fo...
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Corn for fuel not the answerAug 06, 2011 1:01 am - I would like to add some comments to Mr. Campbell’s observations in Fence Post. By using corn for fuel we have pushed the cost of corn from a base of $2.40 per bushel to...
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The case for Obama as a RepublicanAug 06, 2011 1:01 am - There is an impostor in the White House who has been masquerading as a Democrat. Who? President Obama, who talks like a Democrat but acts like a Republican. By his decis...
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One-term limits will right the shipAug 06, 2011 1:01 am - Voters have chosen to re-elect the politicians who are responsible for getting us into the worst crisis our nation has ever faced, with the support of most of the media ...
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Repeat after me, Rahm: SHI CAW GOAug 06, 2011 1:01 am - I am a native Chicagoan. Born and grew up on the West Side and educated in the city from grade school to my el train campus. Like many native Chicagoans, I moved out of ...