Des Plaines Opinion
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A history of a Catholic stanceFeb 26, 2012 4:00 am - Joan Conneely’s recent post is on target. The American Catholic Bishops’ opposition to Obama’s health care provision to provide birth control services to all Americans i...
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Campaigns distract leaders from leadingFeb 26, 2012 4:00 am - Why is it that children can’t pray in the public schools or have a minute of silence before classes start but the government can decide what the insurance companies can ...
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Proud till the end to be Vietnam vetFeb 26, 2012 4:00 am - Why is it that Vietnam veterans still seem to be reluctant to acknowledge who they are? I look at the obituaries every morning, and, it seems that all the other veterans...
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Smolinski for Senate District 28, GOPFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - The race for the Republican state Senate District 28 features two capable and sincere candidates in Gayle Smolinski, longtime mayor of Roselle, and Jim O’Donnell, a chie...
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Can lost jobs ever be brought back?Feb 25, 2012 5:00 am - This month we are celebrating some good news. Unemployment has dropped to 8.3 percent and 250,000 jobs were added. But now, the bad news that Obama doesn’t want you to k...
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Salary bumps for educators must stopFeb 25, 2012 5:00 am - Before a recent Illinois pension law targeting pay spiking went into effect, many school districts awarded upward of 20 percent salary increases in each of the final yea...
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Give immigrants a military optionFeb 25, 2012 5:00 am - Most people would think that the DREAM Act is a program to help Americans achieve a certain goal, but that is far from the truth. The DREAM Act is to help people who bro...
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Planned Parenthood deserves U.S. investigationFeb 25, 2012 5:00 am - For years, Planned Parenthood, a woman’s nonprofit health care provider, with 840 health centers in America, has enjoyed an exalted status partly because of a simpatico ...
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Telemarketers more honest than politiciansFeb 25, 2012 5:00 am - I see our federal representatives are once again attempting to rein an industry I find annoying: telemarketing. That’s good! Unfortunately, once again they have carved t...
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Wealthy Democrats have own agendaFeb 25, 2012 5:00 am - Increase taxes on the wealthy? This idea will not pass because if the Democrats had wanted to do this they could have when they had the majority in the House and Senate....