Des Plaines Opinion
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Ex-racing dogs need compassionJun 26, 2011 9:00 pm - Thank you for your June 4 article, “For working dogs, retirement can be a challenge.” The need for adoption of former racing greyhounds into loving homes is an important...
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Be proud of our athletes’ characterJun 25, 2011 11:00 pm - Well, the Stanley Cup doesn’t belong to Chicago anymore, but I’m glad it’s going to Boston rather the thugs in Vancouver. Chicago can be proud of the character of the Bl...
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Selling guns to cartels is bad policyJun 25, 2011 11:00 pm - Is the Daily Herald ignoring an Obama scandal? Operation Fast and Furious, established by our current administration, allows gangsters and cartel members from Mexico to ...
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Lay to rest the mission in LibyaJun 25, 2011 11:00 pm - Mr. President, you promised the American people that the mission in Libya would be finished in matter of days and not weeks, and you emphasized the “not weeks” part. It...
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The SoapboxJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Sharing pain: In their one-day session to address budget issues this week, Illinois senators also moved to participate in the needed sacrifices. They joined the House in...
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COD adviser transfer done to save programJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - A student alleged in a letter to the Daily Herald this week that College of DuPage removed its student newspaper’s faculty advisor out of retaliation or a desire to cont...
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‘Free speech zones’ coming to suburbs?Jun 25, 2011 3:00 am - Earlier this month, a small group of individuals engaged in their monthly peace demonstration at Dunton Park in Arlington Heights. For the first time in my memory, an of...
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Liberalism has failed in practiceJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - This was President Obama’s plan from the get go: cheat the workers, force the middle class into the same health care coverage as those 30 million who chose not have heal...
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Focus on jobs, not just the deficitJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - The Republicans have a plan to boost the U.S. economy, lower taxes to encourage investment and increase production while cutting government spending. This plan is called...
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Obama puts himself above the lawJun 25, 2011 3:00 am - In 2005, after The New York Times revealed then-President Bush’s illegal NSA spying program, I wrote a letter calling for Bush’s impeachment. The reason was simple: Bush...