Des Plaines Opinion
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How bad will misery index have to get?Jun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - By the end of the Jimmy Carter administration the media had developed a new measuring tool called the 'misery index' to calculate the general attitude of Americans towar...
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Who does Congress really represent?Jun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - The one thing that actually mattered in the current Senate bill regarding credit card rules was an amendment to limit interest rates to 15 percent. That provision was ki...
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We're better than barbaric tortureJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Bob Lowth of Arlington Heights begins his May 17 letter to Fence Post with the following statement: "I'm always amazed when I read people who assume individuals that ar...
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It's time to kick the rascals out ... nowJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - We only get what we deserve. We keep electing the same candidates to the state legislature year in and year out and then complain about corruption and crooked politician...
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Lawmakers: Follow kindergarten rulesJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - To the Illinois legislature: As a senior citizen I object to being used as a political pawn in this futile chess game called politics. I'm tired of the veiled threats, b...
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Ban on same-sex marriage costs allJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Thomas Jefferson said, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." The Californi...
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Nepotism isn't 'in the best interest'Jun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Some of the antics out of Springfield and Chicago through the years have clearly dismayed us. But a little town nestled in the Northwest suburbs may have just raised the...
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War moves not the change we voted forJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Days after the Memorial Day weekend, we remember and mourn the dead: 4,296 U.S. troops dead in Iraq; 685 dead in Afghanistan. Let us also protect the living from unneces...
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Northwest suburbs are not a piggy bankMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - It's about time that we who live in the Northwest suburban area inform the Cook County Democratic Party and their minions, in no uncertain terms, that we are not a speci...
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Religion has been used to deny rightsMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Yes, Mr. Carver, I did applaud Mr. Meril for not citing his religious beliefs in the debate about gay marriage. However, that does not mean that I do not believe in God ...