Opinion Stories from August 18, 2011 (Change date)
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Let’s stick to life-and-death issuesAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - Ron Paul, along with a few other presidential candidates, were called out on their foreign-made T shirts. Home grown is better, but in the larger picture, given the choi...
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One cause that’s a real lemonAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - Just in case you’re not thoroughly fed up with partisan politics invading every single crevice of our lives, here comes Lemonade Freedom Day. On Aug. 20, lovers of free...
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President has wrong idea of balanceAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - What am I missing? There is now talk by our President to have higher taxes on millionaires — or billionaires — to obtain “proper balance.” But what about the other side ...
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Civil union law is about state fundingAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - My recollection of what happened with religious institutions and adoptions relating to the state’s civil union law is different from that of David E. Smith, executive di...
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Obama has been channeling HooverAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - Three years into the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover made the statement,“Prosperity is just around the corner.” He lost the election, but the Depression did n...
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Obama is worst president in decadesAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - I never thought I would live to see another U.S. president as bad as Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, I was wrong. President Barack Obama has shattered all records in fiscal...
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Tea party getting all the blameAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - Enough is enough. Our president at some point has to stop the blame game, and make some attempt to lead our country. Obama first started his term by blaming everything w...
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Need a march on economic stupidityAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - I propose a biblical Joshua-style protest march around the White House. I suggest getting 200 marching bands and have them as Joshua did when he marched around the “wall...
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Crowded trains costing MetraAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - As the Metra board debates raising fares or cutting services, perhaps they should try riding their own trains this weekend so they can really understand the issues. Metr...
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Report more fairly on gay rights issuesAug 18, 2011 5:00 am - The smiling, happy faces of the lesbian couple and their little girl on the front page of the Daily Herald told the story. Michele and Shannon Fagiano had already been t...
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