Arlington Heights Opinion
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Strengthen sanctions before strikingSep 15, 2013 5:00 am - On Tuesday the president said, “We are not the policeman of the world.” That is not completely true. It is oversimplistic. Later on he said, in effect, that we are the o...
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Would opinions differ if Bush were president?Sep 14, 2013 5:00 am - Isn’t it amazing how hawks become doves and doves become hawks in our crazy world of politics? I would venture to bet that if Bush were still president there would be an...
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Editorial: Glimmers of light for MetraSep 13, 2013 5:00 am - A summer of uncertainty for the Metra board of directors seems to be approaching an end, no doubt to the relief of those involved as well as to train riders and taxpayer...
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USDA meat inspections leave public at riskSep 12, 2013 5:00 am - According to a lead story in the Sept. 9 Washington Post, the meat inspection pilot program that the USDA plans to roll out in meat and poultry plants nationwide has rep...
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Put negotiation before actionSep 11, 2013 5:00 am - Your story about the 17-year-old soldier who sacrificed his life in the Korean War gives us cause to reflect on almost 90,000 still missing in action. Looking back at Wo...
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Caught in red-light merry-go-roundSep 10, 2013 5:00 am - If you live long enough you may incur what I call the “Mikado syndrome.” As in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta it must be “a source of innocent merriment” to someone a...
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U.S. intervention would put Christians at riskSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - If we give the Syrian rebels arms they will be used against us some day. The president of Syria never attacked us on 9/11. Any action by the U.S. would be interpreted by...
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Assad wouldn’t have used chemical weaponsSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - I voted for Barack Obama the first time because John McCain wanted to start a war with Iran. I voted for Barack Obama the second time because Mitt Romney’s foreign polic...
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Mideast nations must find their own solutionsSep 09, 2013 5:00 am - Don’t! Don’t! Don’t! We attack. They counterattack. What do we do then? Seems like another war, doesn’t it? Let the Mideast find its own solutions for a change. Mr. and...
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Editorial: School funding key in dealing with poverty levelsSep 04, 2013 5:00 am - It’s always best to find the silver lining in news that on first blush may be less than ideal. So it is with a report in Tuesday’s Daily Herald that poverty rates in 83 ...