Wheaton Opinion
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GOP congressmen selling out for TrumpDec 08, 2017 12:00 am - President Donald Trump forwarded three inflammatory tweets from a person convicted of racial hate crimes in the UK. He did not bother to check on the veracity of the inf...
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Regulation is answer to kneeling issueDec 03, 2017 12:00 am - This is in response to a letter by Gail E. Rose in the Herald's Nov. 13 edition. The letter spoke of how the NFL has changed over the years. More specifically, how it ha...
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No true balance of interests in abortionDec 02, 2017 12:00 am - In his recent letter to the editor, Mr. Theodore Utchen argued in support of America's approach to the abortion issue. I write in response only because his letter is suc...
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Economists ignoredNov 30, 2017 12:00 am - Thirty-seven out of 38 interviewed University of Chicago economists - one misinterpreted the question - said that the current versions of the GOP tax reform bill are sim...
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Rushed tax reform bill is devastatingNov 30, 2017 12:00 am - Following the narrowly passed House version of tax reform, Paul Ryan crowed "we're excited" - presumably "we" meaning the 227 Republican representatives who voted for th...
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#MeToo movement is hearteningNov 20, 2017 12:00 am - The first time I was sexually molested, I spoke out. I was a kindergartner and the resulting reactions to my "telling on" our elderly neighbor were traumatic - adults s...
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Abortion is the woman's decisionNov 17, 2017 11:01 pm - Ellen Butler in her letter of Nov. 4, declares that abortion is not a religious issue, but rather it is a moral issue inasmuch as HB 40 supports the taking of a life by ...
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GOP tax reform will make Russia great againNov 14, 2017 11:01 pm - Republican "tax reform" bill reminds me of my observant high school teacher in Germany, who said that people seem to have no lack of money to spend on frivolous stuff, ...
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$20,456 is not enough to pay the rentNov 08, 2017 11:01 pm - I read with curiosity, Walter E. Williams' column of Oct. 18, deploring the unfairness of America's federal tax system which has those with the top 1 percent of income p...
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GOP: Win first, consequences laterNov 05, 2017 12:01 am - Republicans seem so focused on getting a legislative win that the details and consequences of their "tax reform" bill appear at best secondary. Chasing faster economic g...