Westmont Opinion
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Don't trash those pay phones just yetJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Another example of the need for redundancy in our nations' communication network is the recent East Coast blizzard. Since 9/11 every man, woman and child has been led t...
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Cul-de-sacs: Second-class citizensJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - The city of Naperville has between 1,100 and 1,200 cul-de-sacs, as told to me by an employee of the public works department. If you average 10 houses per cul-de-sac, a r...
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Illinois is the new CaliforniaJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Under left-leaning Governor Quinn, who was lieutenant governor before his recent election, Illinois is now among the top 10 biggest government default risks in the world...
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Our soldiers should start a unionJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - We now have seen political correctness in picking heroes. At the site of the twin towers, we had fireman and police, city workers and many people off the street perform ...
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Study raw numbers, economics, historyJan 06, 2011 10:00 pm - This is in response to David Marzahl's Fence Post letter of Jan. 3. His argument simply does not hold water. In the six quarters before the 2003 Bush tax cuts, the GDP ...
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One death out of place in year's recapJan 05, 2011 10:00 pm - I read with much sadness in the Dec. 28 Daily Herald of the many lives lost in 2010. There were many stories of people less than half my age who are gone now as a result...
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Constitution is the only sacred textJan 05, 2011 10:00 pm - After reading Mr. Van Dine's theological diatribe in the Jan. 2 Daily Herald, I wondered if he thinks he's living in the Vatican or the United States of America. The peo...
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Don't be too fast to pull the plugJan 05, 2011 10:00 pm - In response to “Time to Pull the plug” found in the newspaper on Jan. 1, is it actually time to pull the plug? Both Christmas and the New Year are over, but is it time ...
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Tired of complaints about pension fundsJan 04, 2011 10:00 pm - I am so sick of hearing uninformed people complain about pension funds. I have heard nobody claim we need to raise pensions, as Chris Frantzen states in the Dec. 31 Fenc...
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Media must rethink its Christian biasJan 04, 2011 10:00 pm - On Christmas Day amid the joy of celebrating Christ's birth, as a Christian I was moved to ”weep with those who weep” (Romans 15.14). I learned that 58 fellow Christians...