Letters to the Editor
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It's clearly time Jackson steps asideJul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Jesse Jackson thinks Barack Obama talks down to black people? By expressing some of his opinions that may be difficult for some black people to hear, Obama is just tryi...
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Why no crackdown on firecrackers?Jul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - As I sat up the night of July 4 listening to a neighborhood that sounded like Beruit, I wondered where the police were. This is Illinois and fireworks are illegal, so w...
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Kirk cares about health care reformJul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Richard Keller is wrong in his recent letter to the editor when he claims that Congressman Mark Kirk isn't doing anything about America's health-care crisis. Keller says...
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Palatine shouldn't secede from countyJul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - If it goes as far as steps will be taken to have Palatine secede from Cook County and it does happen, think of the consequences for the homeowners and seniors who would ...
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In the end, yes, we had no bananasJul 12, 2008 11:00 pm - The article, "The Magic of Maxwell Street" brought back a memory of a day in the summer of 1931, when Dad took leave from the dairy farm in Huntley, Illinois, to shop fo...
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Protect constitution, elect Seals in 10thJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In 2006, Mark Kirk voted for the Military Commissions Act, which denied habeas corpus to detainees, an 800-year principle which is one of the foundations of our republic...
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Long promises, short experienceJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Talk is cheap. Nowhere is this adage truer than in politics. Politicians will promise you all the stars in the sky if they think there is a vote in it for them, yet the...
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Obama strongly promotes abortionJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - "While I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn't be fulfilling God's will unless I went out and did the Lord's work," Barack Obama said. Profound words. But...
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No place for crude online commentsJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - I believe that the Daily Herald needs to rethink and review the service it provides, to allow comment on local news stories online. While normally it would be regarded a...
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Oil prices realize bin Laden's dreamsJul 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Osama bin Laden once explained that during the reign of King Faisal, the United States paid only 70 cents per barrel of oil. In the 1973 oil crisis, the Muslim nations ...