Downers Grove Opinion
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Cost of health care reform understatedMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The Congressional Budget Office recently noted the federal budget deficit is on a trajectory that poses significant economic risks and will become unsustainable. The sam...
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What can you believe from Biden?Mar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - That huge sound you heard the other day wasn't a sonic boom or some rolling thunder, but several hundred million people laughing at Vice President Joe Biden's comment on...
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Taxpayers fleeced by Dist. 203 contractMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The outright winner in the new Naperville Unit District 203 teachers agreement was the teachers, with the taxpayers taking another tough beating. School board members m...
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GOP members were called Nazis firstMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - My, how Democrats howl when they get a dose of their own medicine. Fabian Lieschke, who describes himself as a "young German," wants to see widespread condemnation of Te...
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Our forefathers would be ashamedMar 13, 2010 10:00 pm - As a retired company executive and AF four-year veteran, I can no longer stay silent when I see our beloved country being driven to bankruptcy. Our fiscally irresponsibl...
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Robinson column hit nail on headMar 13, 2010 10:00 pm - I just want to say thank you for printing Eugene Robinson's March 10 column. Right on, sums it all up, he hit the nail on the head. The nonsense that the Republican Par...
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Disagree with Burt's 'common sense'Mar 13, 2010 10:00 pm - I would like to comment on a few points in Burt Constable's March 4 column. Firstly, the main reason the Second Amendment was written was so that we the people would be ...
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Wage war or care for our citizens?Mar 12, 2010 10:00 pm - It is time to address the guns or butter issue. According to the federal government's own financial statement, the defense department costs $684 billion, or $7 trillion ...
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Soap box: Palatine's Fiore an inspiration for all of usMar 12, 2010 10:00 pm - Inspiration for all of us: When Mauro Fiore was a kid in Palatine, who would guessed that he'd one day win an Oscar? If there is any message in the honor the "Ava...
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Perhaps it's 'change' for the worseMar 12, 2010 10:00 pm - In 2005, then-U.S. Sen. Obama had a decidedly negative opinion on the reconciliation process he now wants to use to jam his faux health care down our throats, but like a...