Cook County Opinion
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Priorities wrong on play of Kelly storyJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I opened the Herald this morning and to my surprise I find the front page all about Kelly and at the bottom of the page a story on Tim Russert. How dare you. The country...
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Rampant abortion is a holocaust tooJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I've noticed that many recent letters have brought up the holocaust and other genocides. They point out how, tragically, many people looked the other way or went along ...
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Deflocked cartoon insults teachersJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - The Deflocked cartoon strip by Corriveau which appeared in the Daily Herald on June 9 is inappropriate as it implies that "The nation's schools are becoming brothels!" ...
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Pope's meeting did not wipe away painJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - A letter from Ed Smetana quoted Barbara Thorp of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston who stated, "The Papal meeting with survivors of sexual abuse was a true balm for the...
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Only Republicans use stock marketJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Frank Sears of Buffalo Grove wrote a letter (published Tuesday) implying that only the devil himself would take Social Security money and invest it in the stock market. ...
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Gitmo prisoners are terroristsJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - I have been reading about the abuse and torture at Gitmo and I don't understand how the media can blame the military for this. People, we are involved in a war! Not jus...
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Futures act of 2000 drove up oil pricesJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Until Bush, U.S. energy futures were traded on regulated exchanges to prevent market manipulation. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 allowed traders to sp...
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Wright merely asks us to improve U.S.Jun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - For those folks who demonize Rev. Wright for his comments, without actually researching the context of his speech, I want to be sure you know what he was talking about a...
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How do candidates plan to save planet?Jun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems like everyday, the media reports on how global warming is affecting faraway places - from melting icecaps to disappearing glaciers. Now with record floods and ...
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Electioneering at taxpayer expenseJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Recently, the taxpayers of the Northwest suburbs paid for State Senator Matt Murphy and State Rep. Syd Mathias to send out 35,000 mailers, advertising themselves in the ...