Aurora Opinion
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Voters have only themselves to blameAug 05, 2011 11:00 pm - When asked in 1960 at the University of Hawaii whether Kenya was ready for self-government, our president’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., answered, “If the people cannot ru...
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Here’s one vote for citizen of the yearAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - Now here’s a nominee for our village’s “Citizen of the Year.” On July 28 at 1:30 a.m., some of the streets of Carol Stream looked like a war zone. Some have claimed a to...
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A way to make video poker palatableAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - When I first read Scott Roscoe’s letter enthusiastically approving video poker, I had my doubts. After some thought I have come up with a palatable way of implementing v...
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Obama’s the one who should be suedAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - On July 28, lured by the mega-font and the full front page headline, I thought the Sun Times had “scooped” the second coming of Christ. I was wrong. It screamed: “Tea pa...
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Why keep giving up our freedoms?Aug 05, 2011 3:00 am - President Obama is pressuring America to agree to the United Nations global ban on concealed weapons. Should we jump on the bandwagon, surrendering more and more of our ...
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Limit p-card use, ensure transparencyAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - It’s much easier to hand a clerk your debit card than it is to hand over money. It’s one reason casinos have you play with chips instead of cash. So it follows that it’s...
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One way to create term limitsAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - It is time, actually way past time, for another revolution. What is going on now in Congress, and has for the past several decades, is truly taxation without representat...
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If you don’t vote, it’s all your faultAug 05, 2011 1:00 am - People are finally paying attention to the problems our state and federal governments are dealing with today. Some say that those bad radical tea party people are behind...
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Farnham is in touch with constituentsAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - I want to recognize State Rep. Keith Farnham for doing the right thing and voting to cut his own pay. Too often legislators are involved with only themselves, removed fr...
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No curtain call for debt ceiling charadeAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - It is high time alert citizens close the curtain of falsely dichotomous political theater with respect to the fire alarm gimmick known as the federal “debt ceiling.” Bot...