Opinion Stories from November 14, 2012 (Change date)
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GOP’s problems were bigger than just Candy and SandyNov 14, 2012 5:33 pm - The 2012 presidential election is at last over. And despite all of the political spinning, huge expenditures of money, media driven hoopla and an ongoing terrible econom...
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The mandate to raise taxes on the “rich”Nov 15, 2012 4:47 am - Within days of winning the election, President Obama announced that his victory gave him a mandate to raise taxes on the “rich.” Come again? This was a two-and-a-half-po...
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Personal ethics, public trust and PetraeusNov 14, 2012 3:55 pm - The Petraeus affair -- like some Ethics 101 thought experiment -- is an exceptionally difficult test case in determining the proper relationship between personal ethics ...
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Cartoons, letters show newspaper biasNov 14, 2012 8:04 am - The Opinion page in Saturday’s Daily Herald had four political cartoons and five letters to the editor that were anti-Obama. Can you say that you are unbiased in your re...
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Editorial: Moving past fear on supportive housingNov 14, 2012 5:27 am - In Wheeling, it’s about homes for mentally disabled people. In Campton Hills, it’s about a place for people to stay during treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. The ...
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Work for the people, not for a partyNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The Republicans have now lost the last two presidential elections, and their congressional leaders, like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, have lost in their stated goal...
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Accept reality and move onNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - There is no doubt in my mind that The Daily Herald is a Republican newspaper. You made that clear when you supported Romney and now you are clearly upset over the elect...
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The party is what ruined it for RomneyNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The headline was inevitable: “What went wrong?” Seriously? Republicans plan to commence focus groups and voter-based polls to discover the mystery behind their loss. H...
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Still the best man for the jobNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The story is told of the French diplomat in the bad days of the Cold War who was approached by a Soviet agent and shown pictures of himself having sex with a woman most ...
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Blame climate change for SandyNov 14, 2012 3:40 am - Hurricane Sandy is a terrible example of how climate change makes natural weather storms extreme. That storm had a combination of a high tide with a full moon — normal e...
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