Lake County Opinion
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Nobody seems to be snickering nowJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - The chattering classes across the country could barely contain their snickering when George Bush talked about the axis of evil. Nobody is snickering now. The great orat...
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Saturday Soapbox: New Jersey, you make us look goodJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - More than 40 people in New Jersey, including three mayors and two state lawmakers, were arrested Thursday in the state's latest large corruption probe, an investigation ...
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Health care fix a long time comingJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - George Will in his June 28 column said the "Health-care 'fix' is something we'll likely regret." Is he joking? Who hasn't sat at their physician's office, watching lunch...
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Fight health care tunnel visionJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - I just read a recent letter from Jason G. Spoor, teacher union president for Palatine-Schaumburg School District 211 and am appalled and angered at his position on healt...
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New economy changes everythingJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Budget, recovery, honesty and integrity, balance, growth. They're now just words without faith. What we've seen disappear is not coming back to the way we knew it. Forg...
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Kids have right to excel, not get byJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - School District U-46 denied Kim Stover's request that they provide her son Andrew with a laptop with a special program to help him keep up with class assignments. Ms. St...
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Consider the source, then form opinionJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Today (July 18) we were treated to another of those predictable rants against Universal Health Care. This time a Mr. Nielsen was the standard-bearer. There are several t...
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Protests should use abortion picturesJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Why is it so offensive to parents that their children see real pictures of real human beings murdered when those same parents think nothing of letting their children of ...
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Oh, Mr. President, where were you?Jul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - It was all over the news yesterday, including a headline in The Wall Street Journal which read, "Iraqis take control as U.S. troops withdraw from cities." I have but one...
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Victory in Iraq should be celebratedJul 24, 2009 11:00 pm - It is with great pride that I reflect upon the marvelous victory that our brave men and women of the military have achieved in Iraq. I am sure that none of the military ...