Cook County Opinion
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Kirk still backs water boardingMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Kirk still backs water boarding On March 8, President Bush vetoed Congressional Bill Number HR 2082. On March 11, the House tried to override the veto but failed. One o...
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It's time to give dirty tricks a restMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The current mantra from Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk show hosts is what he calls, "Operation Chaos." This ingenious plan, reminiscent of a 5-year-old tryin...
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No universal health careMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems the people want national health care paid for by the government (taxes). Before you all go off and think how great this will be, consider this. For those in the...
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Mrs. Keigher's sixth graders provide some hope for the futureMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Perhaps there is hope for kids. And newspapers. The two often don't go hand in hand. More so than ever, we keep hearing about how young people don't read newspapers. A c...
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No reason to trust Jim ThompsonMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Just my advice to the people of Illinois: Beware the words of Jim Thompson. You've all seen what he's done for Lord Black. Jim Thompson doesn't care for the people of I...
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Gun critics argue using faulty logicMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - In Sunday's edition of Fence Post, Ken Grimm states that guns in America kill over 20,000 lives a year, but nobody cares. He asks if it is because the NRA owns our polit...
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President Clinton was short sightedMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - It appears, after observing lately the pit bull approach of the media against Obama and his minister of many years, who is telling the people that the "truth need not be...
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Good news on war does get reportedMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The "biased liberal media" take a lot of flack for supposedly reporting only the horrors of the Iraq war. I often wonder what the critics are watching and reading. On ...
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Free from word of Obama, ClintonMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - I received a release today from a veteran in Pennsylvania who runs a Web site for those of us who served in the China, Burma, India theater during World War II. It feat...
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Legislators don't earn their keepMay 07, 2008 11:00 pm - While listening to the news the other day, I heard it mentioned that our representatives in Illinois, who had given themselves 10 percent raises last year, were now givi...