McHenry County Opinion
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Does Chevy Volt have a future?Sep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - I read with interest your Aug. 12 account of the Chevy Volt plug-in electric car due in showrooms late next year. According to "230 MPG?" by Katie Merx and Jeff Green of...
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We viewed Kennedy through rose-colored glassesSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Am I the only one who's absolutely aghast by our politicians and the media's sanctimonious praise of now departed Sen. Kennedy? Listening to the media blather and readin...
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Foster keeps rabble at a distanceSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - It has become plain to me in the short time that my representative in Congress, Bill Foster, is an elitist. A "Scientist and a Businessman" means "I'm smarter than you a...
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Now's not the time to put money in trainsSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - I couldn't believe the recent news conference report that the governors of Illinois, Michigan and Missouri were endorsing a plan to develop bullet trains that will conne...
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Let's put a stop to racial profilingSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - With regard to racial profiling, I truly believe that the term is over used and incorrect. Profiling is used in almost every thing we do from consumer goods to political...
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Obama, lawmakers on crooked planetSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Barney Frank lashed out at a woman during a town hall meeting, asking, "What planet have you been living on?" I will answer for that poor outshouted lady. "Mr. Frank, w...
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Look for resources that pay for careSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - With all this talk of health care reform, rising costs on everything and unemployment rates as high as they are I think more people need to take health care into their o...
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Ignore ignorant comments from PalinSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - Regarding, Sarah Palin's recent remarks about health care and euthanasia, she has revealed herself as incredibly stupid or a blatant liar. Whichever it is, no intelligen...
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Help us combat spending in GenevaSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - At previous meetings of the school board in Geneva Unit District 304, a number of taxpaying citizens of the district made statements of great concern about the ever-incr...
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Capitalism beats socialism every timeSep 04, 2009 11:00 pm - I don't know about you, but in my life I have never felt the fear I feel today about the future existence of our nation. Even when the former Soviet Union was at the ape...