Mount Prospect Opinion
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Sad that we need a ‘repealer’ officeApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - State Sen. Kirk Dillard’s proposal to create a new state Office of the Repealer is a noble but truly sad indictment of our government. Shouldn’t we expect our leaders to...
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Stuttering needn’t be a block to successApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - Your article “Addison native getting started on Hollywood career” about Celesta DeAstis was very interesting. The article mentioned that she stuttered early in life and ...
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Plastic bags don't belong in recyclingApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - Many times when I walk in our neighborhood before the recycling truck has come by, I notice many blue carts with their lids partly open because of plastic grocery bags a...
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Money argument doesn’t change truthApr 01, 2012 5:00 am - Regarding morality, C.S. Lewis wrote in the first chapter of “Mere Christianity,” “This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that everyone knew it by ...
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Get facts on what college student saidApr 01, 2012 5:00 am - I have to ask Jeff Gorden, who wrote about how he would never want his daughters to be like Sandra Fluke (Fence Post, March 17), if he actually bothered to watch or read...
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Critics are hiding their true colorsMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - A Massachusetts elementary school principle at Soule Road School recently renamed St. Pat’s Day “O’Green Day,” to ease the discomfort some students might have. Let’s tak...
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‘After-birth abortion’? What will be next?Mar 31, 2012 5:00 am - The “slippery slope” analogy refers to what seems at first like a minor violation of a principle, that once started can’t be controlled until the person or society ends ...
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Don’t impose English on Puerto RicansMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - Have Republicans have lost faith in the proposition that free markets provide the ultimate gauge of useful behavior? How else can we interpret the current bandwagon buil...
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Shame on Cook for treatment of vetsMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - Thank you to the members of the Illinois Senate who saw through the Cook County Board’s shameless attempt to deny service to the veterans of Cook County. It is difficult...
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We’re ignoring our great privilegeMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - We are one of a few countries with the supreme privilege of voting for the candidate of our choice for government offices. Why then is it necessary to make it so easy fo...