Island Lake Opinion
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Health care bill doesn't add upSep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - The health care proposals before Congress are economically unsustainable. Analysts agree on this, including, among others, the Congressional Budget Office, the Heritage ...
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Time for Johns to run againSep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When I first moved into McHenry, John Jung and then John Rossi started to recruit me in getting involved with McHenry. I just cannot believe that both hard working offic...
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Get atrazine out of U.S. water supplySep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - How have we let this happen? I was shocked to find (in The New York Times) that more than 33 million people in the U.S. are drinking water contaminated with a pesticide ...
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Obama isn't first to address studentsSep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - President Obama's planned speech is to encourage kids to study and work hard. President George H.W. Bush spoke in a broadcast to American students in 1991 about his educ...
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Who are all of Obama's Czars?Sep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - I just got a letter from the Heritage Foundation that quoted the Russian newspaper Pravda: "It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent i...
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Stand up against hysterical voicesSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - It's a pretty sad day in America when the president of the United States cannot make a speech to school children about the importance of education and staying in school ...
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Construction crews should coordinate!Sep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Like most who travel Lake County lately, I am surprised at all of the "shovel ready" construction that has popped up in the last several weeks. Milling here, patching th...
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Death panels, socialists just scare tacticsSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Here we go again with "scare tactics." Death panels - kill Grandma and Grandpa - believers, don't mess with my Medicare? Socialists taking over, birthers, reverse racist...
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Fix small problems before big overhaulSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - If the government takes over health care, it would be a disaster. First, the people who work for Medicare have to be better trained. Example one: I had a pain in my foot...
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Obama playing the ultimate shell gameSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - If you ever watch those street corner guys doing shell games, they always try to distract you at the critical time so you lose track of the prize. See if you can see a s...