McHenry County Opinion
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Let's calmly discuss race and health careSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Lake County Board member Mary Ross Cunningham owes her colleagues a genuine apology for her uncontrolled rant about race earlier this week. That would be the best way fo...
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Kudos to Rosemont for nixing pokerSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - The Mayor of Rosemont, Bradley Stephens, is the first mayor to denounce video poker as a revenue source. After being vilified, slandered, and the victim of Illinois part...
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New leader must fill Teddy's shoesSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - At the dawning of a new day we received the news that Edward M. Kennedy, the Lion of the Senate, in his 47th year of service from the state of Massachusetts, had died. T...
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Health care is a personal responsibilitySep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - In letters to the editor we keep reading about "our health care system." In reality there is not and cannot be any such thing as a health care system. There are only the...
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Skip movie to learn about real warsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Why would anyone pay to see a movie like Quinton Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," which is pure fantasy and violent for violence sake? There is plenty of good materi...
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Where's coverage of U.S. loan to Brazil?Sep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and conservative talk radio recently reported that our government is lending $2 billion to Brazil so they can drill for oil off their s...
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Buffalo leaving Elgin a sad storySep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - The city of Elgin can't make ends meet? Just ship the buffalo to an American Indian reservation - problem solved. This sad news broke just days before my son and about a...
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Obama must work to end use of dronesSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - President Obama must work to end the use of drones, a weapon that kills far too many civilians, fuels the Taliban and al-Qaida, and engenders distrust in the United Stat...
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Time to enforce immigration rulesSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - I just read that the next census will include illegal immigrants. It appears as though the Obama administration has tipped its hand as to their version of "immigration r...
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Ban on texting only makes senseSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Thanks to Gov. Quinn for bringing common sense behind the wheel by banning text messaging while driving. Could you imagine Calvin Borel or another celebrated jockey text...