Vernon Hills Opinion
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Saturday Soapbox: Getting textySep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Getting texty: Seen on a bumper sticker this week: "Guns don't kill people; drivers with cell phones do." Also seen, on a Schaumburg municipal sign: "Texting and ...
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U.S. should stand firm against mosqueSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Can you tell me one good reason why I should sit back and let Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf tell me what is not hallowed ground? It is not his hallowed ground to him. It might...
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Kirk's background needed in SenateSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - As someone who met Mark Kirk during his first campaign for Congress, I've been proud to support him then and in every election since. Mark has been a leader on fiscal i...
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Kirk is not a true fiscal conservativeSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Mark Kirk has consistently promoted himself as a fiscal conservative. However, his voting record does not back up that claim. His votes for the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and...
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Thanks to all who celebrated a heroSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - On Friday, Aug. 27, I had the honor and privilege of being part of the many who paid tribute to a hero. My nephew Christopher "CJ" Boyd was killed in Afghanistan on Thu...
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Insult to juror missed the pointSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - I am stunned by the disparaging and disturbingly un-American Fence Post letter by Bill Hurlbutt of Lincolnshire that recklessly characterizes the lone holdout on the Bla...
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Social Security can't be sustainedSep 16, 2010 11:00 pm - This is in response to Ms. Rossi's letter on Social Security. Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world. Right now it consumes 20.8 percent of all the mon...
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GOP puts American values secondSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - If Republicans are the party of country first, being American, patriotic and being a good Christian, how come they: A) Give big businesses tax breaks, incentives to clo...
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Schmidt did not refute tax claimsSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - A newspaper's biases are too often revealed in headlines that misrepresent the content of the article. This is almost universally true of the Daily Herald's coverage of ...
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Families should decide mosque issueSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Let the families of those who lost their loved ones in the horrible devastation of those two towers in New York on 9/11 decide what to build near ground zero - not the M...