Cook County Opinion
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Obama entourage a symbol of excessDec 16, 2015 12:00 am - The British press is entranced by the sheer size of President Obama's entourage which traveled to the G-20 summit in London. Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, inc...
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If leaders are so confident, why not let people vote?Dec 16, 2015 12:00 am - In response to an article about top Democrats rejecting the redistricting and term limits ballot proposals the governor is promoting, if Michael Madigan and John Cullert...
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What does this say of religious tolerance?Dec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - What does this say of religious tolerance? So, let me get this straight. Our daughters are dressed in Muslin hijabs in a public school to foster tolerance of a reli...
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Second Amendment intent hasn't changedDec 15, 2015 11:01 pm - In his Dec. 14 letter, Theodore Utchen writes that since the Second Amendment referred to the need of the militia to be called up from the populace, it is no longer rele...
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Don't be defined by rhetoric of the pastDec 15, 2015 12:00 am - In oral arguments before the Supreme Court this week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia remarked if minority students with inferior academic credentials may be better...
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Response to history's revisionistsDec 14, 2015 11:01 pm - This is in response to the letter from Judy Arenas in the Nov. 19 issue of the Daily Herald. She pulls a supposed quote from John Adams somewhere at the same time that a...
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Thanks for random act of kindnessDec 14, 2015 11:01 pm - On Dec. 8, a group of residents of the DuPage County Convelescent Center went Christmas shopping at the Target store on County Farm Road in Wheaton. After I had finished...
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Metropolis has got itself turned aroundDec 14, 2015 4:00 am - Hats off to the team now running the show at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. New Executive/Artistic Director Joe Keefe seems to have found the formula for consistentl...
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Editorial: Boards squelch dissent, distort record when they pressure for unanimityDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - There is order. And then there's order. The good people who have been elected to the school board in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 believe in order. They perm...
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Chipping away at moral commitmentsDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - The Kochs, ALEC, politicians (the enablers) and wealthy investors are chipping away at the fabric of our moral commitments to one another. Recently we learned that the K...