Lake County Opinion
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Everyone's talking, no one is listeningOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Some observations: 1. White Republicans from the Party of Lincoln seem to make up the vast majority of tea party and health care reform town hall participants. At one h...
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Let's work numbers in our favorOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I just got a memo, 9/18/09, from Melissa Bean stating the uninsured number for health care to be 45 million. Yesterday on TV, Barack Obama used a number of 30 (million) ...
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Details different, but con is sameOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - With today's request by the Obama administration to extend the "Patriot Act," it's hard to see how this administration is any sort of "change" from the last one. 1. Esca...
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Don't bash Christians for stand on gaysOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I'm not asking the Daily Herald to stop printing offensive, Christian-bashing letters like the one from Mr. Stephen Beisiegel. But, I am asking the paper to be fair and ...
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Durbin vote proves his partisan positionOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - To The Hon. Sen. Dick Durbin, Regarding your vote to support funding to ACORN and the July 20 report from U.S. House of Representatives, "On ACORN" by Darrell Issa. Hav...
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We're lucky to have Obama as presidentOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - We voted for Barack Obama because of his desire to break down walls that divide American citizens from each other and from other countries and cultures. He also wants to...
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Why Olympic vote really shocked DaleyOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Regarding the selection of city for the 2016 Olympic Games, I suspect the Chicago Mayor was shocked the voters of the IOC didn't roll over, as Chicago aldermen do. Metro...
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Some health care rules defy logicOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - A new one to me about what the health care industry considers a "pre-existing condition:"- spousal abuse. You read that right, spousal abuse. If a spouse is beaten badly...
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Raises for U-46 leaders a mistakeOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - It always amazes me what so called "educated" people see as a priority. In this case the priority is the selfish reward in the way of a raise, during troubling times, fo...
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We need to know more about ObamaOct 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Never before in my life have I feared for my county's future the way I do today. Just what do we really know about this man except that he came to Chicago and became a c...