Arlington Heights Opinion
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Stop media's liberal bias reporting newsJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Ellen Goodman's May 29 column is another example of the media's liberal bias when she makes an extraordinary leap of faith in an attempt to squelch Sonia Sotomayor's rac...
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Speak up America: Enough is enoughJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Members of the "greatest generation" now retired are those retirees who put God and country before their personal interests, often fighting in wars to protect our Americ...
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Go green: Use grass clippings on lawnJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - To help preserve our environment, grass clippings are good for the lawn because grass is 75 percent water and it will quickly decompose and nourish the lawn with nitroge...
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How bad will misery index have to get?Jun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - By the end of the Jimmy Carter administration the media had developed a new measuring tool called the 'misery index' to calculate the general attitude of Americans towar...
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Who does Congress really represent?Jun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - The one thing that actually mattered in the current Senate bill regarding credit card rules was an amendment to limit interest rates to 15 percent. That provision was ki...
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We're better than barbaric tortureJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Bob Lowth of Arlington Heights begins his May 17 letter to Fence Post with the following statement: "I'm always amazed when I read people who assume individuals that ar...
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Lawmakers: Follow kindergarten rulesJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - To the Illinois legislature: As a senior citizen I object to being used as a political pawn in this futile chess game called politics. I'm tired of the veiled threats, b...
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Ban on same-sex marriage costs allJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Thomas Jefferson said, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." The Californi...
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Nepotism isn't 'in the best interest'Jun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Some of the antics out of Springfield and Chicago through the years have clearly dismayed us. But a little town nestled in the Northwest suburbs may have just raised the...
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Aren't we better than an 'eye for an eye'?Jun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Didn't we prosecute some Japanese for using torture tactics after WWII? What was Nuremburg all about? Remember Lt. Calley at Mei Lei? Do these events in our history res...