Articles filed under Opinion
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Give Harris/Walz team a chanceAug 26, 2024 4:00 am - I have learned something about Donald Trump over the past years. If Trump feels that you are a challenge to him, the only way that he reacts is to call you childish names...
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What’s so bad about the past?Aug 26, 2024 4:00 am - One recurring theme of the Harris/Walz campaign is that they are looking to the future and President Trump will take the country back to the past. Why is that so bad? I w...
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Here’s an idea worth fighting forAug 26, 2024 4:00 am - In her Aug. 20 guest column, Kathy Salvi, chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party, complains that under the control of the Democratic Party, residentscost of living h...
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Democratic irony on ‘threat to democracy’Aug 26, 2024 4:00 am - How interesting to watch the Democratic Party celebrate their destruction of democracy in Chicago last week. Disregarding the voters, the party leaders and billionaire ol...
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The deterioration of conversationAug 25, 2024 4:00 am - People still wonder how politics, personalities, and religion have become such a volatile mix the last decade. Politics and religion have always been “enter-at-your-own-r...
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A lesson from history about dictatorsAug 25, 2024 4:00 am - If we go back to 1933, changes in Europe allowed for the rise of a totalitarian government. Control was exercised by a select few. Laws were changed or ignored. Certain g...
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Future depends on policy, not personalityAug 25, 2024 4:00 am - Coup d’etat is defined as “an overt and illegal takeover by government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.An experience of only Third World countries in the past. U...
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Misplaced vitriol in guest columnAug 25, 2024 4:00 am - I read with a mixture of horror and indignation the column by Kathy Salvi, whose ranting is apparently newsworthy because she is the Illinois Republican Party Chair. I ca...
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Pressure lawmakers to repeal driving test lawAug 25, 2024 4:00 am - I am an over-80 Illinois driver whose last accident was in 1980 when a 26-year old, rushing to take his bar exam, ran a red light and T-boned my car. I have no objection ...
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Election campaign 2024 is a complicated pictureAug 24, 2024 2:37 pm - “It’s the economy, stupid!” James Carville’s iconic sign in Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters reminded every member of the team what the key issue in the 1992 election...