Cook County Opinion
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Well-intentioned laws used for porkApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Regarding John Stossel's Monday column on the reality of the mortgage crisis: The problem is not "bail outs." The problem is the twisting and tweeking of well-intention...
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Days of reckoning hit our schoolsApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - It is estimated that over half of the pregnancies in the United States are unplanned. Those who are too young to remember the '60s and '70s missed a time not only of po...
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Justice criticized on abortion commentApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated on CBS News' "60 Minutes" that "the Constitution doesn't prohibit abortion any more than it allows it" according to an articl...
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We all should be outraged by tortureApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - On April 18, the Daily Herald printed an Associated Press report on the Justice Department investigation into how the United States government came to use torture as a m...
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Elitism is no vice if talent's behind itApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Writer Silvio Pontarelli in the Saturday Fence Post complained Sen. Obama was arrogant and elitist. So what? If you needed a serious operation, would you choose a docto...
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Mistake parents can't afford to makeApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Parents spend years and years teaching their children right from wrong, stressing the need to make responsible decisions and ethical choices. Then they succeed in making...
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Enjoying the gifts that trees provideApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - So Saturday was Earth Day. Twenty-two years ago, give or take a year, I began a project that I dearly believed in. We moved into the Nantucket Cove Subdivision behind th...
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Police had chased cougar all dayApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - I just read a letter from Terry Poulos in Arlington Heights, he says the debate of this cougar is silly and nonsensical. The original article I read in the Herald said...
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United Airline's poor decisionsApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - I just read where United Airlines stock fell 37 percent to $13.55 and has about 8 billion dollars worth of debt. This is a company that reneged on many of its financial ...
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Greed factor boosts the price of oilApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - In Saturday's Daily Herald, you printed an AP story "The unpredictability of oil, Many unknown factors can inflate crude, gas prices." I would like to make known one of...