Opinion Stories from January 6, 2013 (Change date)
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Editorial: Our congressmen and the fiscal cliff testJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Let us start this discussion of “the fiscal cliff” by saying we are relieved, but by no means pleased. Last weekend, the United States’ economy teetered on the brink of ...
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Notre Dame and the sports-academia complexJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared to the a...
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Amendment to the Constitution neededJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - I would like to thank Mr. Bachman, executive director of Illinois Retired Teachers Association, for his letter in Fence Post on Dec. 17. He is right when he said that cu...
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Social Security didn’t cause deficitJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - Retirees and workers need to keep a close eye on some people’s ideas on how to lower our federal deficit. Too many people don’t know this, but Social Security is not why...
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Republicans adriftJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 11, a mere five days after the presidential election, the cruise ship Nieuw Amsterdam pushed off from Fort Lauderdale for a Caribbean jaunt. Aboard were nearly 6...
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Lawmakers, here's a bill you really could get behindJan 06, 2013 6:24 am - Excerpt from an official, top-secret, confidential internal memo I fired off to the bosses this past week: “This is too late to help us this time around, but I think we ...
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A note to honor teachers, principalsJan 06, 2013 4:00 am - You are teachers. You are principals. Kids consider you their second moms, dads, mentors. You love children and would do, what the principal and teachers did at Sandy Ho...
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Students are blessed while blessing othersJan 06, 2013 3:40 am - Students are blessed while blessing others I was deeply moved as I read your Dec. 21 story about 46 high school students donating their time to not just one but cou...
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Obama re-election: Back into bondageJan 06, 2013 3:40 am - Obama re-election: Back into bondage Thank heaven for the Republican majority in the House. It is serving as a brake on the profligate spending of the Democratic ad...
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Another tragedy of innocent childrenJan 06, 2013 3:40 am - Another tragedy of innocent children Recently, we have heard the term “innocent children have been killed” in the horrible Sandy Hook School tragedy for all of us t...
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