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Editorial Cartoon: The government we deserve.

Administrator — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:16 +0000

If we get the government we deserve then what, oh what, did we do to deserve this?

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Politics has always been contentious, elections doubly so—that’s the point. What we see in this cycle, however, is just silly. These guys have already made the opposition’s campaign commercials for them. Take the current name off the spot and slap on a big “O” and nobody’s the wiser. I swear, in another time, somebody in Obama’s employ would have to sit and think long and hard to get “vulture capitalist,” and these guys are givin’ it away for free.

Editorial cartoon: An unarmed Bin Laden?

Administrator — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:25:38 +0000

Osama Bin Laden killed was armed with words and followers who would do his bidding even if it meant certain death. Imagine what he could do with the wink of any eye or a single word. Kudos to good decision making by the Commander in Chief.

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Editorial cartoon: Of petitions and petticoats.

Administrator — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:52:16 +0000

Someone in Machesney Park starts a petition to get the JC Penney Outlet store to stay in the mall. Seems that no business would pull up stakes when they are making money. This news throws a serious wrench in the Mall redux, but as long as the government spends its sparse coin on wooing businesses without guarantee of customers, we will see this over and over. To put in another way, unless you want to subsidize the business — let them go where the customers are.

“Build it and they will come” only works in the movies.

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Editorial cartoon: Do we really need teachers in the modern age?

Administrator — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:58:59 +0000

When 40% of an entire high school fails one or more classes in a given semester, and there is a never-ending lack of funds, perhaps we should re-evaluate the public education process: Make school optional and menial labor mandatory. Imaging that you could either go to school and succeed for eight hours a day, or go to a job stuffing envelopes or shoveling excrement at Lockwood Park. When they turn eighteen, those who wanted to learn will be more educated and those who didn’t will have some type of skill. All without burdening the system.

In the meantime, lets cut the budget until we have nothing more than a babysitting program where everyone loses.

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Editorial cartoon: Embry-riddle and the curse of the NIMBY’s

Administrator — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:50:51 +0000

I’d like to hope that there are other places in the United States where people stand up and say that being a better community is a bad thing. Otherwise, have all the other communities colluded to secretly send all the NIMBY’s to Rockford? If so, that would explain a lot. Of course, it looks like we are collectively willing to part the Red Sea to bring a Portillo’s to Rockford.

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Editorial cartoon: Lottery Lease

Administrator — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:04:22 +0000

Illinois is the first state to outsource its lottery operations. What are the odds?

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Editorial cartoon: Distracted driving.

Administrator — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:24:11 +0000

There’s an old-school diversion out there that still puts people at risk — maybe we could pass a law for this problem as well.

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Editorial cartoon: America loves illegal labor (but don’t tell anyone)

Administrator — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:08:23 +0000

If there was a 12 step group for addiction to cheap disposable labor, we’d be a charter member. The first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem: “Hello, I’m the US of A and I’m an addict.

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Editorial cartoon: Downtown revitalization

Administrator — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:27:21 +0000

Q: How many downtown revitalization plans does it take to be successful?

A: One. Of course you’ll need to subsidize all the businesses in the area until people actually realize that downtown is a good place to be.

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Editorial cartoon: How far have we really come?

Administrator — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:39:19 +0000

Whether police brutality, a justified action or a symptom of endemic racism; reaction to the Barmore shooting shows there are two truths about justice in America.

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