Arlington Heights Opinion
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Soapbox: We need to listenNov 09, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's a salute to the League of Women's Voters/Palatine Area for its Veterans Day luncheon last week in Schaumburg. It was there that the League honored women in the mi...
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Silence from the right is tellingNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - As David Horowitz reminded me in a speech on campus last night, a favorite pastime of the right is to question, if not completely deny, the patriotism of the American le...
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Why should U.S. arm this group?Nov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - If things are going so well in Iraq, why does Bush need to arm a terrorist group (PKK) to help him fight insurgents? The arms given to the PKK are not only being used to...
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On life and death matters, we must resist dealing in speculationNov 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Speculation is about the only stock in trade for some mysteries. But that doesn't excuse openly dealing in the commodity An Austin, Texas-based PR agent offered us an in...
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Burt could stand to lighten up a littleNov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - Perhaps the answer to Burt Constable's question of "the value of kids missing school for McDonald's" is they can grow up to be a cynical cheap-shot editorialist for a su...
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Soapbox: Silly law; silly lawsuitNov 02, 2007 11:00 pm - It takes a highly elastic imagination to fathom just how the constitutional rights of Buffalo Grove atheist Robert Sherman or his daughter might be harmed by a newly req...
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Herald hides news favorable to U.S.Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - I see the good news that U.S. troop deaths are continuing to decline in Iraq. Where did I read this? On the front page of The Daily Herald? Of course not. The story was ...
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Costs of gambling are far too highNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Legislators in the General Assembly are attempting to tie a massive increase in gambling to funding for capital construction projects. Voters must not allow this to happ...
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What have critics done for country?Nov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - As the current war in Iraq becomes increasingly unpopular, some of our citizens again turn on the military to express their displeasure. It is a shame that a country cre...
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Teachers, simply consider the sourceNov 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Teachers, take courage. I do not believe, nor do I think anything like a majority believes, the blather recently published in our local newspaper. They exist to sell pap...