Hoffman Estates Opinion
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Let's show more respect for authorityJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - The recent flap over the general's remarks brings to my mind a bigger, more pervasive issue: the lack of respect for authority. This attitude that anyone can say anythin...
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Estrich columns are worth readingJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - I rarely find myself drawn to editorials, but since I have started to read the Daily Herald I seem to be drawn toward Susan Estrich's column. In her May 17 article "Sexi...
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Obama learned the truth hurtsJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding General McChrystal, while his personal feelings regarding Obama may be correct, as a general, there was no place for his comments to go public. Regarding Obama...
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Illinois needs Kirk, a fiscal conservativeJul 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Mark Kirk is a fiscal conservative who was a co-sponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment, voted against the trillion-dollar stimulus bill which has failed and only incre...
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Props to Elgin Mayor for no car perksJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Thank you, Mayor Ed Schock! In the headline of last Sunday's Daily Herald all about the many mayors wasting our taxpayers' money with new expensive take home cars, car a...
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Look at science, worldview scenarios through God's wordJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I can't quite understand Paul Whittington's statement that I inferred that "one cannot accept the observable facts and still be a Christian." My point was and is that th...
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Don't legislate from the bench, make changeJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Let me preface my comments by saying I don't own a gun and have never have. This isn't about that as much as the rule of law. Less than four months ago Justice Sotomayo...
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Politicians created teacher pension problemsJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I think the media has wrongly labeled "teachers" as receiving hefty, six-figure pensions. The recipients of these big pensions are superintendents and administrators, no...
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Mayor Daley fails citizens by backing gun banJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Unfortunately, a brave young man goes overseas to a theater of war twice only to come back to the dangerous streets of Chicago to be killed here. Statistically Chicago i...
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An energy venture worth pursuingJul 07, 2010 11:00 pm - What do you get when you cross a school funding crisis with a clean-energy initiative? Officials with three suburban school districts hope the answer lies in a downstate...