Deerfield Opinion
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Insult to juror missed the pointSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I am stunned by the disparaging and disturbingly un-American Fence Post letter by Bill Hurlbutt of Lincolnshire that recklessly characterizes the lone holdout on the Bla...
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Government excess not just about fedsSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald opinion piece, "Fines must be linked to public safety," hit the nail on the head. What the Daily Herald has exposed is a growing trend in local governme...
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Look beyond the major partiesSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - In my whole life I have always voted for the person and the platform, certainly not just the party. In recent years, however, I haven't been pleased with many of our ele...
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Social Security can't be sustainedSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - This is in response to Ms. Rossi's letter on Social Security. Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world. Right now it consumes 20.8 percent of all the mon...
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Let's hire some 'real live people'Sep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Have we, as a society, forgotten what the words "customer service" mean? I have become frustrated today as I had many telephone calls to make to a variety of companies. ...
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Red-light request shows FOIA flawSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The recent flap over Cook County's desire to force towns that refuse Cook County's red light cameras to pay for the intersections' maintenance highlighted a loophole in ...
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Critics often wrong about DemocratsSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Letters to Fence Post too frequently portray Democrats and liberals as if they were enemies of this country. This message seems to originate from conservative media host...
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GOP puts American values secondSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - If Republicans are the party of country first, being American, patriotic and being a good Christian, how come they: A) Give big businesses tax breaks, incentives to clo...
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Schmidt did not refute tax claimsSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - A newspaper's biases are too often revealed in headlines that misrepresent the content of the article. This is almost universally true of the Daily Herald's coverage of ...
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Families should decide mosque issueSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Let the families of those who lost their loved ones in the horrible devastation of those two towers in New York on 9/11 decide what to build near ground zero - not the M...