Marengo Opinion
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Voting is your responsibilityAug 20, 2010 11:00 pm - As the cartoon character POGO once said, "We have found the enemy and it is us!" I've heard a lot of lame excuses lately, like "My one vote doesn't count," "I don't like...
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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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'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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Where are the Republicans?Aug 13, 2010 11:00 pm - For the fourth time since the election started, the fourth Democrat came over to my house asking for support. Recently State Rep. Jack Franks knocked on my door asking m...
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Grow a backbone or grab some benchAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - An increasingly irrelevant and intellectually lazy mainstream press, not surprisingly void of journalistic due diligence, has consistently lumped all politically-active,...
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Mosque column out of touchAug 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Richard Cohen really missed the mark in his Aug. 4 column, which was in support of the proposed construction of an Islamic Mosque in Manhattan. The reason that a great n...
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Ensure an ethical lottery transitionAug 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The Illinois Lottery will soon come under new management. In a move that state officials are hoping will improve the lottery's performance and return significant revenue...
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Correcting record on Barrington Hills horse boardingAug 08, 2010 11:00 pm - In his letter published July 26th, Barrington Hills resident Jim Hammond misstated and misrepresented the recommendations made by the Equestrian Commission concerning ho...
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We must address illegal immigration, enough is enoughAug 06, 2010 11:00 pm - American citizens are finally waking up to the fact that things are not right in the great old U.S.A. The great state of Arizona is finally standing up to all the fence ...