Des Plaines Opinion
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Obama has restored honor to White HouseJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Fence Post has published letters expressing the view that President Obama is a mistake. To that view, we must take great exception. The biggest mistake was allowing the...
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Morality, not racism is the problem in today's issuesJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - It would be so nice to open up this newspaper in the morning and receive information that makes common sense. Instead I read about a committee of health care professiona...
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Weigh overpopulation in immigration debateJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I, for one, am in agreement with the 51 percent of Americans that favor Arizona's new law to crack down on illegal aliens. For the past 40 or 50 years expert population ...
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Chicago should keep Walmart out, not the answer to economic problemsJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I am glad the Chicago Federation of Labor has rejected Walmart's latest offer. We don't need companies like Walmart in the city of Chicago. The life blood sucked out of ...
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Don't diminish individual successesJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - No matter how you couch it, our culture does not place great value on intelligence and academic achievement, and we are paying for this by falling further and further be...
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One good boycott deserves anotherJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - So the Cook County Board voted to boycott Arizona services and products because they don't like their policies on immigration. I think we taxpaying citizens of Cook Coun...
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Music and art transcend culturesJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - It is beyond fathoming to me that someone would be offended by a Christian song in a dance recital. This type of thinking in my mind is what separates the many vast, lov...
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Many have benefited from Kirk's serviceJun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - As a longtime Congressman, Mark Kirk has been the driving force behind narrowing the fiscal gap between school district spending and military reimbursements in multiple ...
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Who gets top priority when power goes out?Jun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - As we moved the contents of our freezer and refrigerator to a friend's house down the road that had power, we saw a ComEd truck stop at a business. We pulled over to fin...
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Illinois concealed-carry law is overdueJun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - In light of the recent news of the 52 shootings in Chicago, and the attempted terrorist car bombing attack in New York's Times Square, now is the time that the state of ...