Cook County Opinion
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Criticism hits close to homeJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Doesn't it seem a bit odd that President Bush criticized terrorist appeasers (without mentioning names) and Obama immediately rose to defend himself from the criticism? ...
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A year of possible firsts for ChicagoJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The Chicago Tribune, for the first time in more than 130 years, endorses a Democrat, not a Republican, for president. The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first...
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Enforce current immigration lawsJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Low wage illegal immigrants do not earn enough money to live in modem America so they supplement their income with taxpayer funded social services. The American citizen ...
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The real blame lies with RepublicansJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - This is in response to the lengthy but erroneous "state of the union" commentary by letter writer Mr. Lawrence Boni of Palatine in Sunday's Herald titled "Democrats Have...
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Impeach more than BlagojevichJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Illinois House Speaker Madigan is correct in taking action to suggest impeachment of the governor. However, both Emil Jones, the Senate president and Michael Madigan, t...
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Clinton supporters should cross overJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The Fence Post letter (James Cook, Sunday) was way off base by including fear tactics in his final comments stating that "survival of the Democratic Party was at stake."...
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Why don't police enforce traffic law?Jun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past several months, I have noticed that more and more drivers believe yellow and red are the new green when it comes to turning lanes. I have watched three, f...
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Name floods like we do hurricanesJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - We name hurricanes so that we can easily identify the event. Who doesn't know immediately what Katrina was all about? But what about just a plain old huge flood? I sugg...
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We should just void governor's electionJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Now that Tony Rezko has been convicted on numerous counts of fraud, many of which contributed to the wealthy Blagojevich re-election fund, does this not make Blagojevich...
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Russert deserved better prominenceJun 16, 2008 11:00 pm - How incredibly horrible it was for me to unfold my paper Saturday morning to see that Mr. R. "I haven't-accomplished-anything-real-in-life" Kelly had been given preceden...