Elmhurst Opinion
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We need to secure borders nowSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Our border with Mexico should have been secured several years ago. However in the last couple of years things have been escalating. The violence from drug cartel activit...
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How is U.S. Senate race even close?Sep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - As a former New Yorker, I am amazed that the U.S. Senate race in Illinois is even considered to be a dead heat. How is it possible that the treasurer of the state of Ill...
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News you don't see in the newspaperSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Many times a newspaper, with contributions from the Associated Press and the politicians in power, will take a story and blow it way out of proportion just to score poli...
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Time to repent the sins of our nationSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Just a couple comments to the one who wrote Sept. 9 about the day the Pentagon was attacked, the twin towers and Flight 93 went down, taking with them the lives of thous...
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'Best president' tag works for other sideSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The letter-to-the-editor debates between Steve Toye (conservative), and Lanlan Hoo (liberal) have been spirited and thought-provoking. The online postings defending eith...
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Gang turf should be deemed war zoneSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I am writing to recommend that we need to take drastic measures to stop the senseless killing of our children, especially in Chicago. It seems like every night when I wa...
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We're not chicken about covering this huge storySep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Stop the presses!!! Did you hear Chick-fil-A is coming, and it opened its first Chicago-area restaurant along Route 59 in Aurora on Thursday? Did you hear they have this...
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Will they ask, 'Is it constitutional?'Sep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - If the GOP wants to rebuild the U.S. Senate with a bunch of Arlen Specter liberal types, then Mark Kirk is their man. Their numbers have already increased with the elect...
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A chance to vote for real 'change'Sep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - As we near the upcoming November elections, we might be wise to recall this famous quote from the late Will Rogers...an American humorist. "Politicians are like diapers....
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Oh, to bring back Harry TrumanSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - I am tired of the talking heads saying the Democrats did this and the Republicans did that. The real issue is that government has been in a runaway state since the 1930s...