Mount Prospect Opinion
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No big, shiny bow on health care lawApr 14, 2012 5:00 am - Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was quoted on the front page of the March 29 Daily Herald as asking, “Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercio...
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Mandatory purchase no worse than taxesApr 14, 2012 5:00 am - The discussions about the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) have spent much time on the issue of mandatory purchase of insurance. During the last Bush administration t...
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It is better to be given lifeApr 14, 2012 5:00 am - With all of the heated controversy over contraception, abortion and anti-abortion and its implications in religious faith, why has not the following relevant question ev...
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Give bonuses for what really mattersApr 14, 2012 5:00 am - I thought it was interesting that not a single starter in the NCAA tourney final was from the states of Kentucky or Kansas. I heartily endorse the contention of Bob Knig...
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COD restaurant also a teaching toolApr 14, 2012 1:00 am - In a March 24 letter to the Daily Herald, the College of DuPage was criticized by a faculty member for incorporating a fine dining restaurant, Waterleaf, into our new Cu...
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The SoapboxApr 14, 2012 1:00 am - Big ray of hope: In a huge suburban sign of economic recovery, developers Dwight and Ruth Yackley are launching a $30 million expansion of their upscale Main Street Prom...
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Ignore the phone and vote them outApr 13, 2012 5:00 am - Reader Barry North wrote about his annoyance with political robocalls (Fence Post, April 5), and I’m sure most of us agree with him. But he made two additional points. H...
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Regulations are what protect usApr 13, 2012 5:00 am - Reader Steve Quick (Fence Post, March 26) tells us in no uncertain terms that come November, the South will rise and smite the Yankee federal regulators who have wrecked...
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Justices should stick to constitutional roleApr 13, 2012 5:00 am - What’s wrong with this picture of the American exceptionalism of America’s highest court, its dignity, its scholarship, and its incorruptible nonpartisanship? Listening ...
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Pipeline wouldn’t lower gas pricesApr 12, 2012 5:00 am - I would like to compliment Mr. Silvio Pontarelli on his restraint in not calling the president a liar about the Keystone pipeline (Fence Post, April 6). However, his lac...