Bartlett Opinion
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We need a higher power to guide usApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. Robert Harrison, this is in response to your March 24 argument that supports use of contraceptive methods and debates the Catholic Church’s unwillingness to sanction...
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Military policy led to attack on civiliansApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - About the March shooting in Afghanistan, I feel this incident is not a case of one “bad apple” but the effect of a continued U.S. military policy of drone strikes, night...
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There’s plenty right about news mediaApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - I am writing in response to Al Haak’s complaint (Fence Post, March 24) that the news media do not give equal coverage to President Obama’s “gaffes.” I have to point out ...
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Tax cuts for wealthy led to huge deficitsApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - It is absolutely amazing to me that the talking heads on Fox News can get so many Americans to believe trying to raise top marginal tax rates to increase revenues is “re...
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Tyranny masked in health care law?Apr 07, 2012 5:00 am - Many years ago (around 1997) the makers of Bic Pens ran a contest offering a free college education for the best essay of 50 words or less on the value of a college educ...
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Difference between death, bloody nosesApr 07, 2012 5:00 am - Uncertainty surrounds the untimely death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on March 17, except for this: What separates this tragedy from a physical confrontation and one or...
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Everyone should love ‘Obamacare’Apr 07, 2012 1:00 am - Yes, Republicans oppose “Obamacare” and rely on this term to stoke up opposition to the Democrats’ proposal to nationalize health care delivery. So, editor Jim Slusher h...
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A good word for ?U of I’s HoganApr 07, 2012 1:00 am - While I cannot speak to President Hogan’s relationship with the Illini faculty, I can speak about his excellent relationship with me, an alumni. Recently, I had publishe...
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Conservation, not growth, in our futureApr 07, 2012 1:00 am - It seems everyone these days is complaining about the high cost of gasoline. Some of reasons, according to reports by Reuters and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, are that extrac...
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Don’t make a federal case out of it, DurbinApr 07, 2012 1:00 am - Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, wants to make bounty hunting in the NFL a federal crime. Really, Dick; that’s what is important to you? A do-nothing Democrat Sen...