Opinion Stories from August 26, 2011 (Change date)
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Bipartisanship when it matters to IllinoisAug 26, 2011 8:40 am - By Daily Herald Editorial Board Tradition would dictate that Dick Durbin, being a Democrat, and Mark Kirk, a Republican, sit on opposing sides of the House chamber for t...
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Let’s just call them ‘wreck’ centersAug 26, 2011 4:40 am - I don’t understand what drives elected officials to have an uncontrolled need to spend other people’s money with unemployment at almost 10 percent, with houses that have...
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Send self-interested politicians homeAug 26, 2011 4:40 am - No matter what political party you belong to you have to agree that the politically driven fiasco that now holds sway over our country is cause for action. Our elected o...
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Democrats wouldn’t have tried to cut debtAug 26, 2011 4:41 am - In the past few weeks I have read with great interest a few letters, most notably the one from the president of the Kendall County Democratic Women, blaming Fox News, Mi...
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Easing the sting in summer of turmoilAug 26, 2011 4:41 am - Mosquitoes personify aggravation this summer. Some remind me of Snoopy in his World War II bomber taking aim. But things could be worse. For our family this is a season ...
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The killing at the cornerAug 26, 2011 4:40 am - When I drove by my corner grocery store last Sunday, the crime tape had already gone up and half a dozen police cars were parked in front. By the time I drove back home ...
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Liberals’ Wisconsin WaterlooAug 26, 2011 4:40 am - MADISON, Wis. — The residues of liberalism’s Wisconsin Woodstock — 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities — ar...
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Medical lawsuit headline off markAug 26, 2011 4:41 am - Newspaper readership is declining — and that’s just among the corps of Daily Herald headline writers. How else can you explain your Aug. 18 front-page headline, “Medical...
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U.S. always had ability to pay its creditorsAug 26, 2011 4:40 am - So Standard & Poor’s has decided to downgrade U.S. creditworthiness from AAA to AA+. This is a downgrade to the borrowings of the most secure, most highly traded, most l...
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This campaigning won’t be toleratedAug 26, 2011 4:41 am - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s comments directed toward Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are volatile, extremely harmful and lack total civility. I ...
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