Category: Opinion

Semite-Palestine history traced for centuries

Anti-Semitism? Bah! Humbug! Do you know, dear reader, that there are two kinds of Jews? They are the Sephardim, the western European Jews, and the Ashkenazim, the eastern European, Yiddish-speaking Jews. None of them, however, is ethnically Semitic; none of them sprang from the seed of Father Abraham, their belief

Reader’s Voice: An embarrassment of riches at taxpayers’ expense

October 26, 2023Dear editor; Overflowing reserves ($53MM); obstinant refusal to properly recognize and appropriately utilize interest income windfall ($14MM); constantly increasing share of state sales, income, gambling, and marijuana taxes increase (multi-millions); reprehensibly wasteful spending (at least $3MM); and even inaccurate redefinition of elementary generally accepted accounting procedures . .

Reader’s Voice: News credibility very important

October 22, 2023Dear editor; This opinion concerns media disinformation. With the escalation of disinformation, both political and social commentary, morphs into propaganda, while credibility plummets like a free-falling safe. Kaitlyn Tiffany, writing for the Atlantic, October 21 in an article subtitled, “Unconfirmed Atrocities are turning into memes”, she reports that

Reader’s Voice: Yorkville students exercise their rights

October 15, 2023Dear editor; Hooray for our young people! The Yorkville High School students who spoke up at the meeting of their school board September 25 protesting the four members of the boards’ decision to summarily remove a text from their English class had a great civics lesson. They learned

Reader’s Commentary: Gruesom statistics should be understood, not attacked

By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. The dementia-riddled man in the White House works for Ukraine, China, Romania, and now Iran. He doesn’t work for you. Always verify the worth of a man by what he does, not by what he says. The proof is always in the pudding. Donald

Our national priorities need change away from war

By John & Nisha Whitehead “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”—Theodore Roosevelt From being a nation in a permanent state of emergency, America’s crisis state has gone global. The military industrial complex, which has established itself as

Reader’s Voice: Crush at southern border ‘untenable’

October 5, 2023Dear editor; In his letter to president Joe Biden, governor JB Pritzker complained about the refugees being bussed to Chicago from Texas and how federal aid hasn’t kept up. Pritzker rightly points out that the situation is “untenable.” Immigrants are sleeping in police stations, airports, and temporary shelters,

Reader’s Commentary: Writer responds on experience with power leaders

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda I read with interest Marjorie Logman’s amiable letter addressing me in the September 28 edition of “The Voice.” These are my responses to Marjorie and Dave Hoehne. I have not been “taken in” by anyone, including Donald Trump, as you suggest. I am my own person

Relative circus in Washington, D.C. diminishes freedom

By John & Nisha Whitehead Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington D.C. because it’s just more of the same grandstanding by tone-deaf politicians oblivious to the plight of the citizenry. Don’t allow yourselves to be distracted by the competing news headlines cataloging the antics of

Individualist easily can be seen as a terrorist

By John & Nisha Whitehead Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry. This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, is the very definition of

Reader’s Commentary: Thanks to two The Voice columnists

September 24, 2023Dear editor; This Reader’s Voice is to commend the commitment of Charles Coddington and Wayne E. Johnson to exposing the prolific, often unnoticed transgressions of “T. rump” and “Donny Dum Dum” as described in The Voice. Being adept at seeing beyond the carefully-scripted, false persona concealing a self-aggrandizing,

Reader’s Commentary: Our country ‘being destroyed’ from within, in collapse

By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Wayne’s World Johnson and “The Chas” continue to wet their diapers trying hard to outdo each other in their perpetual “sliming” of Donald Trump and yours truly. They continue to bash the former president, I’m assuming, to be entertaining to those who have hate in their

Clarity on: Chimneys, bullstuff, T. Rump, Uncle Joe

The Chas must confess that he has not been very observant where chimneys are concerned. Contrary to what he wrote in his previous essay, there are chimneys facing the street; moreover, there are chimneys in the front of some houses. Sorry for the confusion. Speaking of confusion, our resident UFO