Opinion Stories from February 12, 2013 (Change date)
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Editorial: School conference costs reflect need for restraintFeb 12, 2013 1:51 pm - Life is full of choices, especially when it comes to spending money. They are the kinds of decisions most of us make every day on one level or another. Should we buy a ...
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End the nation’s overspending habitFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - Help! I’ve been transported to a make-believe America, and I need to get back to the real United States. In this fantasy-fueled nation our president has disbanded the j...
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Senate unwilling to address spendingFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - Thanks for a needed and well-written wake up call to our do-nothing (or do-little) Senate (Our View, Jan. 28). The House regularly sends budgets to the Senate, but Sen. ...
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The price of forsaking SyriaFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - We finally have an Obama Doctrine. It is not quite the one outlined in various major speeches — Cairo, Berlin or the Greco-Roman one delivered at the 2008 Democratic Nat...
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Parker hits mark on combat womenFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - I never thought I would agree with anything Kathleen Parker wrote. But I have been proven wrong; She is right — women do not belong in combat. Kathleen, your reasons wer...
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Words that saved millionsFeb 12, 2013 4:00 am - Even among the few, odd, nerdy children who want to be speechwriters when they grow up (I was one), none dream of writing a State of the Union address. These tend to be ...
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Let Hobby Lobby go about its businessFeb 12, 2013 3:40 am - Let Hobby Lobby go about its business The U.S. Constitution states,”Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exer...
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Not exactly the CEO’s faultFeb 12, 2013 3:40 am - Not exactly the CEO’s fault In a Feb. 1 letter, D. Hasbach likens the president’s spending to parents with maxed out credit cards applying for credit in their child...
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Where is all the state’s money going?Feb 12, 2013 3:40 am - Where is all the state’s money going? State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka is sitting on $9 billion in overdue bills because of a lack of money to pay them with. Two...
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Two definitions of ‘illegal’ in IllinoisFeb 12, 2013 3:40 am - Two definitions of ‘illegal’ in Illinois This is a follow-up to a Feb. 26 Fence Post regarding “Illegal Immigrants should not drive.” I agree with Ernie Lasse; sham...
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