McHenry County Opinion
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Don’t charge us to enter our state parksApr 03, 2012 5:00 am - How dare the Illinois House of Representatives overwhelmingly vote to propose a charge of $25 to enjoy our free state parks. I hope the Illinois Senate is smart enough t...
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Affordable Health Care Act and womenApr 02, 2012 5:43 am - Recently, GOP Budget Chairman Paul Ryan launched another attempt to end Medicare. Paul Ryan’s new Republican budget will replace the Medicare guarantee with vouchers for...
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Church just wants religious freedomApr 02, 2012 5:43 am - It seems there’s an ongoing effort to create confusion regarding the true meaning of religious liberty in our nation and, in particular, how the recent Health and Human ...
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Catholic Church never accepted abortionApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - Mr. Robert Harrison wrote “A second look needed at contraception,” a letter published on March 24. His claimed facts are not only inaccurate, but demonstrate something o...
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Sad that we need a ‘repealer’ officeApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - State Sen. Kirk Dillard’s proposal to create a new state Office of the Repealer is a noble but truly sad indictment of our government. Shouldn’t we expect our leaders to...
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Stuttering needn’t be a block to successApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - Your article “Addison native getting started on Hollywood career” about Celesta DeAstis was very interesting. The article mentioned that she stuttered early in life and ...
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Money argument doesn’t change truthApr 01, 2012 5:00 am - Regarding morality, C.S. Lewis wrote in the first chapter of “Mere Christianity,” “This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that everyone knew it by ...
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Get facts on what college student saidApr 01, 2012 5:00 am - I have to ask Jeff Gorden, who wrote about how he would never want his daughters to be like Sandra Fluke (Fence Post, March 17), if he actually bothered to watch or read...
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Critics are hiding their true colorsMar 31, 2012 5:00 am - A Massachusetts elementary school principle at Soule Road School recently renamed St. Pat’s Day “O’Green Day,” to ease the discomfort some students might have. Let’s tak...
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‘After-birth abortion’? What will be next?Mar 31, 2012 5:00 am - The “slippery slope” analogy refers to what seems at first like a minor violation of a principle, that once started can’t be controlled until the person or society ends ...