Cook County Opinion
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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 ...
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Fun time to follow baseball in ChicagoJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - I have always been a Cubs fan, but horror of horrors, I have never been a Sox hater. Why? Because I was first and foremost a baseball fan, and today I was thinking what ...
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How the pop star got top billing over the journalistJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - On this hand, a respected journalist; on that, a world-renowned music star. To me, the choice of which one people would most want to read about was a virtual no-brainer...
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Fallacy of picking and choosingJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - In response to Nancy Herman's letter published May 16, this kind of holier than thou stuff makes my eyes roll into the back of my head. As long as people profess to l...
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Repeat floods' warning: Are we prepared?Jun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - A wild ride through the whims of northern Illinois weather has left many of us weary, without power, suffering damage to homes and property, and, once again, facing over...
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East Dundee board supported flagJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - It isn't often that residents of a village write and pat their village boards on the back and say "Thanks." I have often been very critical of my village board, and I st...