Island Lake Opinion
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Let's celebrate progress, not retreatAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Between World War II and the 1980s our enemy was foreign in nature. Now our enemies are ourselves. We are pitted against each other. There are the have and the have-nots...
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Dold doesn't hold candle to SealsAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Was Dold's campaign "exposed" within the 8/15 article, "Post Comments On-Line?" Not really. Every campaign wants to get the word out as cheap and easy as possible. In D...
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Morality trumps civil rightsAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party is showing its disdain for the people. Recently Harry Reid questions how Hispanics can be Republicans; they want them to be slaves to Democrats' pol...
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Kudos to Franks for tax holidayAug 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Kudos to State Rep. Jack Franks for successfully creating the sales tax holiday from Aug. 6-15 this year. Rep. Franks introduced the idea to Illinois after a family vaca...
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Marriage not an unalienable rightAug 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I would like to respond to Eugene Robinson's editorial exalting the work of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in finding California's Proposition 8, which sought to ban ...
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Horse-boarding critic misstated factsAug 15, 2010 11:00 pm - In response to Jim Hammond's letter (July 26), I'd just like to say that some people have no sense of irony. And some people are "spin doctors." When Mr. Hammond quotes ...
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Chimps served well, deserve better fateAug 14, 2010 11:00 pm - At the Holiman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, N.M., something terrible is happening. There are 200 chimpanzees that are retired from the space program after serving 50 ye...
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Can't go both ways on Obama and IraqAug 14, 2010 11:00 pm - This is in response to one of the many rants I see here on this page about President Obama. One person wrote that Obama has taken credit for now withdrawing American tro...
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'I want a doer not a talker'Aug 14, 2010 11:00 pm - My oldest grandson said he liked President Clinton, because when he was caught in a lie he could always say, so what? The President lies. My teenage granddaughter said s...
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Kagan, gay marriage two more examplesAug 14, 2010 11:00 pm - The selection of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is another one of Obamas' random' appointments, right? Her radical unionism fits right in with Obama's big labor and po...