DuPage County Opinion
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Why not wait until party convention?Apr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Why all the hullabaloo about which Democratic candidate gets the most delegates? The convention, that's the thing. Paul Taulbee Schaumburg ...
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Superdelegates are hardly democraticApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Democratic Party has devised a reliance on "super-delegates" to determine who will be their candidate for president. These super-delegates are NOT elected nor voted ...
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Such ignorant bliss just isn't for himApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In an April 3 letter, Matt Brennan stated, "In countless issues…we hear the same rhetoric when a Democrat wants to create legislation on a federal level. 'Let the commun...
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If we look, we can find a cure for warApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In my hometown of Lake Placid in the early '40s, I met Lowell Thomas, the famous radio broadcaster on the ski slopes. In 1946, I met William Shirer, author of "Berlin D...
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Oberweis shows he is not for peopleApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - In a recent column, (March 18), Dennis Hastert said Jim Oberweis "has to really remake himself in the public's eye." Maybe Mr. Oberweis, who ran and endorsed Congressio...
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Oberweis, Lincoln comparison bizarreApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - I choked a bit on my coffee Sunday morning reading L. Dean Hufsey's letter equating Jim Oberweis' candidacies to Abraham Lincoln's. Lincoln's first run for state office...
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Important to read entire Adams quoteApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Theodore M. Utchen's letter quotes John Adams in order to denigrate religion: "Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out...
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Why does U.S. treat churches differently?Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Cult religions are unacceptable to the citizens of the USA if they involve polygamy or residential compounds. However, if a religion has a pastor who spews hatred and r...
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Gas prices aren't really out of whackApr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Every day, I read about gas prices being too high and that they might get to $4 per gallon. When I got my drivers license in 1980, gas prices were about $1.25 per gallo...
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Any real point to erroneous numbers?Apr 10, 2008 11:00 pm - The April 1 article about the impact of Earth Hour was most interesting. However, in the writer's desire to be a "greenie," the math was hard to understand. He said the ...