Cook County Opinion
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Boy's suit forces him into locker roomNov 19, 2015 5:00 am - I've followed this story about allowing a transgender boy into the locker rooms and showers of the high school. As a mother of a 20-year-old boy and 18-year-old girl, I ...
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Guns aren't the problemNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - The problem today is undisciplined young men. Often from broken families, misunderstood and underserved by schools, untethered to the morality imparted by churches and y...
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We need Sanders to save usNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - As I see it, the United States and the world face two enormous challenges and unless Bernie Sanders is elected it may be too late to do anything about it. First, the eno...
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Candidates should investigate moderatorsNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - It is overwhelmingly obvious that the mainstream-media collectively backs the Democratic Party and its candidates. Debates are an outright joke as the moderators are ...
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Challenge what you readNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - I really feel that I must respond to two letters in the Nov 6 Fencepost. Mr. Richard Clark declared that our nation was founded "as a Christian nation according to the ...
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Dist. 211 needs to do what's right for most studentsNov 18, 2015 5:18 am - It was many years, but I remember it well. I was taking a Red Cross course in advanced first aid and at the previous session we had been given a test on triage. At that ...
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Don't paint religions with same brushNov 18, 2015 4:00 am - Last night during the Democratic Debate the moderator asked each participant if they referred to the Paris incident perpetrators as 'Islamic extremists'. None of the can...
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We got fundamental change all rightNov 17, 2015 5:00 am - As of late I would assume that a lot of people are scratching their heads wondering what the heck is going on. A gold medal winning decathlete was just named woman of t...
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Where would salutes be if we had a draft?Nov 16, 2015 11:00 pm - On Veteran's Day, I wore my Air Force hat to the health club and did my full three hour work-out. Not bad for a guy almost 70. Then I listened about all the salutes to v...
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Give Dems credit for health care woesNov 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Cecile Powell's Nov. 5 letter, "What if men were having babies," made several erroneous assertions. She claimed "men were in charge of women's reproductive health care" ...