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Opinion Stories from May 9, 2011 (Change date)

Getting the truth trumps ideology

By Bill O'Reilly
May 09, 2011 12:00 am - Frustrating! That’s the appropriate word for what is happening in the wake of the Osama bin Laden raid. Besides the precision of the Navy SEALs, the big story to emerge ...
Think before you idle

May 09, 2011 12:00 am - Most Americans have been complaining bitterly about rising gasoline prices, but few seem willing to make some simple efforts to conserve gas and reduce air pollution. Ev...
Chalk one up for the president

May 09, 2011 12:00 am - Re: Osama Bin Laden killed. Well done, President Obama, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Frank Sears Buffalo Grove ...
The right loses its fight

By Susan Estrich
May 09, 2011 12:00 am - These are very tricky times for conservatives in America. For starters, they don't really have a candidate. OK, that's familiar. More unusual: They don't really have an ...
Don’t halt extension service funding

May 09, 2011 12:00 am - In 1914, Congress established the Cooperative Extension Service as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This act allowed land-grant universities to enter into an ...
Anti-Roskam letter shouldn’t have run

May 09, 2011 12:00 am - Someone told me the Daily Herald featured in the news, “Walsh won’t back off.” I found Joe Walsh to be true to his word. At that time I was a subscriber to the Chicago T...
Torture is still torture

By Eugene Robinson
May 09, 2011 12:00 am - It wasn’t torture that revealed Osama bin Laden’s hiding place. Finding and killing the world’s most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and do...
Public workers must not cover for state

May 09, 2011 12:00 am - The group Illinois is Broke is running commercials on the radio in reference to the public pensions of teachers, state university employees, and state workers. This grou...
Working up a tax storm

By George Will
May 09, 2011 12:00 am - Tim Storm, an Illinois businessman until a few weeks ago, is now a Wisconsin businessman. Herewith a story about how states can reduce revenues by trying to increase the...

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