Cook County Opinion
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Action needed now on global warmingSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - We need to stop global warming! Did you know that since 1980, Illinois has experienced 19 of its 20 hottest years on record? I was in Alaska recently, and witnessed the ...
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Divergent stories about religion and sexuality needed to be toldSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Anytime it takes more than a year to get something in the newspaper, you really hope it was worth the trouble. So if the virulence -- and diversity -- of opinion on the ...
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Smoking not illegal, and not the worstSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - In response to Helen Clark's letter concerning consideration of an exception to the smoking ban rule for casinos, I have to first say I am not now a smoker and haven't b...
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Evolution isn't really scientific, eitherSep 27, 2007 11:00 pm - I have read some letters questioning Lisa Szatkowski's beating a dead horse in her Sept. 17 letter because she does advocate the teaching of creationism in the public sc...
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Planning can put an end to abortionSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - As a pro-choice advocate I support Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, and I am glad they are opening a new, full-service health facility in Aurora. It is a fact that abort...
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Character and principle countSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - What's more important: principle or "electability"? A TV journalist asked this question recently prior to another town hall-based Democratic political debate he would be...
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What is happening to our values?Sep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - I have never been so disgusted with an ad in the Daily Herald like the one printed on Sept. 16, page 17. How could churches believing in God endorse a clinic that perfor...
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Stossel tells the real story on health careSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Excellent recent column by John Stossel on the U.S. health care system, showing how the left-wing socialists are creating numbers to support Hillary's failed medical pro...
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It's not a matter of what's legalSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - This is in response to Sunday Fence Post letters by Valerie Ivanoff and Susan Schafer. Both make the argument that one cannot compare the Vick dog-fighting crimes to abo...
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Governor isn't good for businessSep 26, 2007 11:00 pm - Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2007, page A2: "Drops in Housing, Autos Pinch Midwest". Further evidence that Gov. Blagojevich is completely misguided in his assault on I...