Deerfield Opinion
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Save our future generationMay 08, 2011 12:00 am - In response to Fence Post writer Melissa Riley and anyone who mistakenly believes that women have “freedom of choice” to end their pregnancies: The truth is women get ab...
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Get tougher against uninsured driversMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - This is in response to the recent letter in Fence Post by Pete Mayhew on uninsured motorists. I couldn’t agree more. In April 2010, my youngest daughter and a friend wer...
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Just what does Obama have time for?May 04, 2011 12:00 am - Isn’t it kind of hypocritical of our president to “not have time for silliness” when finally bringing his birth certificate forth, but he can fly into Chicago for a tapi...
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Public workers are self-sacrificingMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - Recently, a letter was published in Fence Post that called teachers, firemen and policemen “crybabies.” I wonder, does the writer really think that finding and carrying ...
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Three-prong fix to federal budgetMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - The best way to reduce the deficit is to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, eliminate tax breaks for oil companies and multinational corporations sending jobs overseas and...
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Drilling here would pay off at the pumpMay 04, 2011 12:00 am - Don’t blame Libya for the high prices at the gas pump. Libya produces only about 2 percent of the world’s oil, and the bulk of their output goes to Europe. It is estimat...
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Sensible action on immigration enforcementMay 03, 2011 11:00 pm - In government, sustaining an ineffective program is always imprudent. When money is tight, it's senseless. Yet, until Wednesday, 26 counties in Illinois were chained to ...
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Thanks for support of soldier’s familyMay 03, 2011 12:00 am - This letter is overdue, but with nine more Americans killed in Afghanistan recently, it seems a good time to send it. On behalf of my sister, Liz Wade, and the extended ...
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Slain woman is a victim of state lawsMay 03, 2011 12:00 am - Forty-eight states can’t be wrong about concealed carry, can they? It certainly wasn’t demonstrable by the April 15 story “Prosecutors: Killer stalked victim.” This stor...
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Long after Civil War, new divisions ariseMay 03, 2011 12:00 am - As the nation remembers the opening shots of its darkest days on the 150th anniversary of the “Civil War,” which supposedly made us one nation, the divisions run just as...