Palatine Opinion
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America now sees Obama as a mistakeMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - I would like to thank President Obama. Without him my country never would have been awakened due to the policies we will soon experience. Just look at the many polls in...
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Financial reform sorely neededMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - The United States Senate recently plunged to the depths of political hypocrisy. As senators from all political stripe castigated executives from Goldman Sachs for financ...
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Under, overpasses save time, moneyMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - As you may be aware, there was a tragic collision in the southern suburb of University Park during the evening of April 16th in which a young woman driving a car was kil...
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Can't silence foes of big governmentMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - The Mayor of Barrington Hills letter "It's about business, not about socialism" should have been titled "Shut your mouths, pay your taxes, how dare you question the wisd...
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Promoting science a noble causeMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - To paraphrase Bill Foster, United States Congressman and science fair judge at the Discovery Science Fair in Elgin last month, "I want to hear about both successes and f...
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Looking forward to benefits of reformMay 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Like so many Americans I cheered when Congress finally acted to improve our health system with the Health Care and Education Affordability Act of 2010. In 2008 I spent ...
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How the other side livesMay 13, 2010 11:00 pm - What needs to be done is to not allow an educator who retires to be rehired by the district they previously worked for. Educators who retire should not receive their ret...
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Tougher penalties for DUI save livesMay 13, 2010 11:00 pm - As a regular reader of the Fence Post, I sometimes agree (50 percent) and sometimes disagree (50 percent) but am seldom shocked by the comments of your readers. On a rec...
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We are supposed to challenge leadersMay 13, 2010 11:00 pm - The first amendment to the Constitution reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridgin...
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Not just a few priestsMay 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Brian Knott of Elgin in his April 11 letter seems to believe that the sexual abuses against children in the Catholic Church were committed by a few aberrant priests. Not...