Northfield Opinion
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Brady platform for governor appeals to simpletonsJul 02, 2010 11:00 pm - GOP State Governor candidate Bill Brady's campaign literature reads: 1. "Lower taxes" (where have you been - we have a $13 billion deficit). 2. "Cut taxes for working fa...
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Taxes shouldn't pay for bilingual schoolJul 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Your article about the bilingual (Spanish) preschool education proposal has raised my dander once again. It may be that Spanish is the largest minority group in the Chic...
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English will not be spoken in here in response of reform proposalsJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - A mainstay of immigration reform proposals and the pro-legalization rhetoric brewing in Washington is that any path to citizenship must require prospective citizens to l...
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Time to get American troops out of AfghanistanJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been dismissed for insubordination the President should, after nine years of sacrificing hundreds of American lives and billions of ...
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Man-made DNA has serious risks, dangersJul 01, 2010 11:00 pm - The article, "A step to artificial life: Man-made DNA powers cell," regarding the benefits of a genetically synthesized cell, is wrong. This new cell does have benefits ...
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Obama has restored honor to White HouseJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - Fence Post has published letters expressing the view that President Obama is a mistake. To that view, we must take great exception. The biggest mistake was allowing the...
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Morality, not racism is the problem in today's issuesJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - It would be so nice to open up this newspaper in the morning and receive information that makes common sense. Instead I read about a committee of health care professiona...
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Weigh overpopulation in immigration debateJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I, for one, am in agreement with the 51 percent of Americans that favor Arizona's new law to crack down on illegal aliens. For the past 40 or 50 years expert population ...
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Chicago should keep Walmart out, not the answer to economic problemsJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - I am glad the Chicago Federation of Labor has rejected Walmart's latest offer. We don't need companies like Walmart in the city of Chicago. The life blood sucked out of ...
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Don't diminish individual successesJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - No matter how you couch it, our culture does not place great value on intelligence and academic achievement, and we are paying for this by falling further and further be...