Deerfield Opinion
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Difficult decisions must be madeJan 29, 2011 10:00 pm - As former Gov. Jim Edgar has noted (Daily Herald, Jan. 26), the recent income tax increase is a necessary step toward resolving the state budget crisis. Prior to enactme...
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Mt. Prospect law the wrong approach to weaponsJan 29, 2011 10:00 pm - I read that Mount Prospect is putting a ban on everything that has either a trigger or a bowstring on your own property. This is because a good conscientious citizen ask...
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Abortion replaces natural selectionJan 29, 2011 12:00 am - Our numbers are growing, constantly growing, spurred on by the incredibly thoughtless rhetoric as demonstrated by the two-page display ads recently found in this, and on...
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Repair our broken justice systemJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Repair our broken justice system This death penalty thing bothers me. I mean it really bothers me. Why should we allow an innocent person to be sent to their death ...
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When asserting rights goes too farJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - When asserting rights goes too far Being out of the papers for sometime has obviously affected Rob Sherman. He has reserved a seat at the Lake Villa public library ...
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Poor choice to lead Obama’s jobs panelJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Poor choice to lead Obama’s jobs panel Recently President Obama appointed Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, to head his newly created Council On Jobs and Competitiveness. ...
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It’s government that ‘fell down on the job’Jan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - President Obama says the U. S. “fell down on the job.” Who fell? Not the nearly 10 percent who are unemployed and the additional nearly 10 percent of people who have gi...
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This is not ‘Obama’s debt’Jan 28, 2011 12:00 am - A political cartoon Jan. 23 depicted a Land of Oz in which President Obama, as Dorothy, stands next to a house labeled “debt,” which has crushed Uncle Sam, playing the r...
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Death penalty as revenge? Sure.Jan 28, 2011 12:00 am - In answer to the Fence Post letter dated Jan, 21 by Linda Sobieski of Elburn, you have hit the nail square on the head. How many people does one have to kill to deserve ...
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Hypocrisy in Walsh’s health care voteJan 27, 2011 11:00 pm - Our newly elected congressman from the 8th District, Joe Walsh, said that he was “proud” to have cast one of his first votes to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act. Thi...