Island Lake Opinion
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Insult to juror missed the pointSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I am stunned by the disparaging and disturbingly un-American Fence Post letter by Bill Hurlbutt of Lincolnshire that recklessly characterizes the lone holdout on the Bla...
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Government excess not just about fedsSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The Daily Herald opinion piece, "Fines must be linked to public safety," hit the nail on the head. What the Daily Herald has exposed is a growing trend in local governme...
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Social Security can't be sustainedSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - This is in response to Ms. Rossi's letter on Social Security. Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world. Right now it consumes 20.8 percent of all the mon...
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What qualifications does Alexi have?Sep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding the president's endorsement of Alexi Giannoulias for the important position of U.S. Senator: I will vote for Giannoulias for U.S. Senator as soon as the Pope o...
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GOP puts American values secondSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - If Republicans are the party of country first, being American, patriotic and being a good Christian, how come they: A) Give big businesses tax breaks, incentives to clo...
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Schmidt did not refute tax claimsSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - A newspaper's biases are too often revealed in headlines that misrepresent the content of the article. This is almost universally true of the Daily Herald's coverage of ...
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Families should decide mosque issueSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Let the families of those who lost their loved ones in the horrible devastation of those two towers in New York on 9/11 decide what to build near ground zero - not the M...
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Kane wellness program bad deal for taxpayersSep 14, 2010 11:00 pm - To those Kane County employees, Michael Isaacson, who feel that the $4,000 of the taxpayers money spent on the wellness programs is tax money well spent, I have a questi...
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Obama's been working hard, but not for youSep 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Recent articles talk about our president taking another vacation, this time in Maine. But let's face it, he deserves a vacation. Since the oil spill April 20 he has been...
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Mosque different from nativitySep 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Your editors missed a big mistake in logic and printed a letter titled "Mosque about religious tolerance." There is one huge difference between the proposed mosque in N...