Hanover Park Opinion
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Obama’s policies stifle U.S. businessesJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - The third-largest employer in the world is the health care system in the UK, which looks after 50 million people. It is now projected that the state-run health care syst...
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Pro life, but not for allJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - So how does a “pro-life” politician treat living things? Pretty poorly it turns out, at least for those living things that the politician doesn’t value. Right-wing extre...
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Fertilized egg being called a child?Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am - James Finnegan’s letter (Fence Post Jan 13) praising Ireland for not allowing mothers to kill their children is an outrageous, deliberately emotive, distortion of the En...
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Why more funds for Planned Parenthood?Jan 22, 2012 4:00 am - What receiver of government money got over a 50 percent increase in reimbursement with no increase in the number of services provided? Planned Parenthood did the same am...
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Foolish people still using tollwaysJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - It never ceases to amaze me how stupid a lot of the people in Cook County and the surrounding counties are. With the tolls jumping by 87 percent, I observed thousands of...
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This plan requires no sacrificeJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - I do not want to broadly paint my conservative/Tea Party friends as being unwilling to sacrifice to “save the Republic.” Most I know are sincere and concerned about the ...
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GOP will extend ‘good old days’Jan 21, 2012 5:00 am - The Wall Street Barons who sold fraudulent subprime loans, disguised them as derivatives, and then made billions betting against them, have been immune from prosecution....
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Enact, uphold sprinkler lawsJan 21, 2012 5:00 am - Recent tragedies in the city of Chicago and surrounding suburbs have called to attention life safety ordinances, or lack thereof. It is an absolute shame it takes severe...
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Executive orders threaten libertiesJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - Congress recently passed a new defense authorizing bill, and one of the unique extra items that was sneaked into it was a provision that virtually destroys our Constitut...
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ID’s for voting not hard to obtainJan 21, 2012 4:00 am - Should a photo ID be required to deter voter fraud? I say yes. In the Jan. 12 op-ed column by Esther Cepeda, Heather Smith (of Rock the Vote) states “there is still a sp...