Cook County Opinion
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Conservatives not more patrioticJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - In Mr. Skaritka's letter recently, we again get to hear Mr. Skaritka attempt to disparage we liberals by quoting that there are more conservatives in the military than l...
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Why don't abortion foes target fertility?Jan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - The letters come again. The holier-than-thou, my-religion-knows-best crowd is again on the rant, wanting their religious beliefs to be the law of the land. With logs in ...
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Promise to provide a beacon of hopeJan 21, 2009 10:00 pm - There is much speculation as to who is right in the battle between Israel and the Palestinians. If one really wants to know who is in the right and how it will all turn ...
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They sound nice but strip freedomsJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - I would like to complement Timothy Schmidgall's Dec. 30 "A different world without Bill of Rights." I would like to add my comments. When Congress writes bills they alw...
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Boost Medicare to eliminate othersJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - In the months to come, much will be said about a national health-care program - with the usual holdouts ... for their own interests. How can we afford it, they say? But ...
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Hopeless war leaves generation in needJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - We are the baby boomers and the elderly. Most of us believed our children, the capable and strong children of our country, would take care of us. But I know better now. ...
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Parents must teach necessity of familyJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - My daughter was brought up in what I would describe as a stable and loving two parent home. She surrounded herself with friends who had good values. I would describe her...
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It's time to get real about foodJan 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Certainly most are feeling the sorry effects of this shared popped bubble,(Burst Bubble Means Doing More at Home), but my response is to quietly applaud Froma Harrop's r...
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How can Christians favor homosexuality?Jan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Regarding "Can we honor this and bless this?" in the Jan. 11 Daily Herald: The Bible speaks clearly on the subject of homosexuality, as does the Vatican. Since the posit...
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GOP was just as drunk with powerJan 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Jack McCabe begins his Jan. 12, letter by making the absurd analogy that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is like Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler by "eliminating the Republicans...