Oak Brook Opinion
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Laws could diminish weather extremesSep 19, 2010 11:00 pm - We all remember the 2008 Midwest flood - the "500-year storms" that dropped 12 inches of rain above normal in areas of Illinois and damaged homes and businesses across L...
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Let Dems know the orgy is overSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Well, I'll be darned. Every Democrat seeking re-election this November has been transmogrified into an "independent," curiously mum about his or her party affiliation. U...
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Keep God out of our tragedies, indeedSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - I agree with David Werdegar's letter in the Sept. 14 Daily Herald in which he said that he was tired of reading about some horrible accident where a victim was saved by ...
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Obama to blame for Bush deficitsSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - President Barack Obama with much bravado boldly announced that "buck the stops here." But Obama blames the deficits that took place before he took office on George Bush....
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Dillard would have been great candidateSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - I write about your editorial "A labored look for someone to lead" for governor. There was a candidate and serious lawmaker running for governor, State Senator Kirk Dilla...
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We need to secure borders nowSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Our border with Mexico should have been secured several years ago. However in the last couple of years things have been escalating. The violence from drug cartel activit...
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How is U.S. Senate race even close?Sep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - As a former New Yorker, I am amazed that the U.S. Senate race in Illinois is even considered to be a dead heat. How is it possible that the treasurer of the state of Ill...
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News you don't see in the newspaperSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Many times a newspaper, with contributions from the Associated Press and the politicians in power, will take a story and blow it way out of proportion just to score poli...
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Time to repent the sins of our nationSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Just a couple comments to the one who wrote Sept. 9 about the day the Pentagon was attacked, the twin towers and Flight 93 went down, taking with them the lives of thous...
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'Best president' tag works for other sideSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - The letter-to-the-editor debates between Steve Toye (conservative), and Lanlan Hoo (liberal) have been spirited and thought-provoking. The online postings defending eith...