Gilberts Opinion
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Obama an easy targetFeb 23, 2011 12:00 am - The commencement speaker at the 1985 Notre Dame graduation was Jose Duarte, the despot president of El Salvador. Granted, Duarte was a Notre Dame graduate, but he also w...
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Separation issue had other originsFeb 23, 2011 12:00 am - This is in response to the letter from John Babush on Feb. 11 with regard to separation of church and state. We actually have two entities to thank for separating church...
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Problem is, lawyers are in chargeFeb 23, 2011 12:00 am - Have you ever wondered who is running (ruining) America? Is it our policy makers? The politicians locally and in Washington? What group of people have the most influence...
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This will be do-nothing CongressFeb 22, 2011 12:00 am - When Gail Rose of Huntley suggested the president should work with Republicans, I wonder what she has been paying attention to over the first two years of the Obama pres...
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Be careful what you ask forFeb 22, 2011 12:00 am - There has been a lot said about the Affordable Care Act. There’s also been a lot of distortion and deception about “death panels” from those who benefit from insurance c...
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Hope from invigorated neighborhoodsFeb 22, 2011 12:00 am - The images are all too familiar in troubled times. Empty storefronts dominate the strip malls that were once symbols, if somewhat crassly so, of suburban economic vitali...
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Appreciates legal notices in papersFeb 21, 2011 10:00 pm - I oppose House Bill 1869 reducing the requirement that governments publish legal notices in newspapers. I read the legal notices in all the newspapers. Had I not read ab...
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We did it in WWII; we can do it againFeb 20, 2011 12:00 am - The governor of New Jersey is advertising in Chicago, insisting business owners move their companies to New Jersey because it isn’t as heavy a state regarding company ta...
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The diversity in our neighborhoodsFeb 20, 2011 12:00 am - The numbers tell a dramatic story. In DuPage County, the white population has actually fallen in the past 10 years, a decline of 6 percent, according to the U.S. Census ...
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Instead of repeal, revise, improveFeb 20, 2011 12:00 am - My adult daughter has celiac disease. If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, heaven forbid she should lose her job and be forced into the individual health insurance ma...