Wheaton Opinion
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How about a debate to cap off war of words?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - May I direct your attention to Fence Post, found under the letters tab of the opinion Web page. Those letters are the latest salvos in a monthslong feud among leaders of...
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Bailout will mean small, unsafe carsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Fifty billion dollars is an amount of money that most of us just can't comprehend. Yet that is the amount that the Obama administration has and will pump into GM (Govern...
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Easter Seals helps kids to be their bestJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Each weekend thousands of people take to the streets of our communities, walking and running to raise money for charities. Every one of them has found a cause to bel...
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Zambrano got only a slap on the wristJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Carlos Zambrano is a bad example to all young kids who watch and play the sport of baseball. His recent outrage was unnecessary and unwarranted. If he wants to call ball...
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Startling discovery: GovernmentiumJun 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has made a startling discovery in finding the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv) has one neutron,...
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Time for some soul-searching in IllinoisMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Having lived through the terms of 14 Illinois governors, I have acquired an affinity for this state and have never felt a desire to relocate. The fact that we have now b...
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Is this the kind of change we wanted?May 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Do you ever have the feeling that for the last 12 days (the new administration) that a huge steam roller is squashing our great country's constitution, rule of law and v...
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Is a hole-in-one front-page news? Maybe in NeighborMay 28, 2009 11:00 pm - This just in to the newsroom: Dave Patton of Naperville scored his first hole-in-one on May 22. He used a 5 iron on the 174-yard 7th hole of Course No. 1 at St. Andrews ...
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Is it torture if it's done to our troops?May 26, 2009 11:00 pm - I was pleased to hear President Obama declare that waterboarding is torture. I am not satisfied to hear him continue to use the euphemism for torture, "enhanced interrog...
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We have to raise state income taxMay 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Cutting state spending as a viable alternative to solving our state's budget shortfall is a myth we have a responsibility to dispel. No one can rationally argue that i...