Opinion Stories from August 24, 2012 (Change date)
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The parable of the two congressmenAug 24, 2012 12:33 pm - Take two congressmen — I am tempted to say, please. One exposes his, well, equipment in the Holy Land. The other exposes his ignorance and pride. Who is the more sacrile...
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Tea Party-types are the real threatAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - It is my sincere hope that Rep. Joe Walsh is in close contact with my current congressional representative, Peter Roskam, and local authorities about the “real threat” o...
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GI’s shouldn’t pay for own necessitiesAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Last night my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple whose son recently spent time deployed in South Korea and Afghanistan as a member of the United States Ar...
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Islamic terror still targeting ChristiansAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Father Corey Brost stated that he studied Islam “extensively” (Fence Post, Aug. 19), but I suggest he reread the Quran and look at 9:5, the verses of the sword. Then he ...
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Editorial: Wildlife refuge will be boon for ’burbsAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - After the Black Hawk War, in the early 1830s when white settlers pushed into the Fox River Valley, they encountered a rolling landscape carved by a glacier. The area was...
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What’s to like about Obama’s tenure?Aug 24, 2012 5:00 am - On Aug. 2, Thomas Carras chastised Laszlo Stephen in a Fence Post letter for expressing his rightful desire to be free from President Obama’s administration, claiming th...
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Church should be respectful of lawsAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - We live in confusing, often contentious times. Nowhere is this more apparent than within the Catholic Church. The recent selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Ro...
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The delusions in Ryan’s Medicare visionAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn’t. It’s really hard to know what Mitt Romney’s VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes Obamacare’s $716 billi...
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Environmental policies will doom usAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Democracy is dead. Regardless of who wins November’s elections the super rich and the largest corporations will continue to determine all major policies. They have bough...
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Why government needs a dietAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Because the possibility of effectively supervising government varies inversely with government’s size, so does government’s lawfulness. This iron law of Leviathan is ill...
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