Aurora Opinion
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Elgin rehab program good for communitySep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - I have an idea that the person who wrote about the flaws of the rehab program in Elgin doesn't know much about what is happening in Elgin with homes that have been vacat...
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Don't empower larger evilsSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - On Page 18 of the Sept. 10 edition, you show a U.S. flag being burned by lawyers in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the whole world is supposedly up in arms about a minister from a...
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Obama to blame for Bush deficitsSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - President Barack Obama with much bravado boldly announced that "buck the stops here." But Obama blames the deficits that took place before he took office on George Bush....
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Dillard would have been great candidateSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I write about your editorial "A labored look for someone to lead" for governor. There was a candidate and serious lawmaker running for governor, State Senator Kirk Dilla...
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Parker's Muslim column hereticalSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I understand that this is mostly a letter and thoughts of the writer - columnist Kathleen Parker - but she must have not said that everyone in America thinks like her. I...
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We need to secure borders nowSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Our border with Mexico should have been secured several years ago. However in the last couple of years things have been escalating. The violence from drug cartel activit...
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How is U.S. Senate race even close?Sep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - As a former New Yorker, I am amazed that the U.S. Senate race in Illinois is even considered to be a dead heat. How is it possible that the treasurer of the state of Ill...
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News you don't see in the newspaperSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Many times a newspaper, with contributions from the Associated Press and the politicians in power, will take a story and blow it way out of proportion just to score poli...
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Tax cuts are not givebacksSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - On Sept. 15, the Daily Herald ran a political cartoon in which a man, pointing to a GOP elephant dressed as Robin Hood, tells his wife, "Says he's stealing from our gran...
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Print better opposing viewsSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I had to read the Sept. 14 Fence Post letter by Helen Clark of Algonquin three times before I could make any sense at all of her assertion that the "foreigners" living h...