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Government Opinion

Trump runs government like business, social security at risk

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Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter four): He has: Fired the staff of the National Security Administration (which manages the nation’s nuclear stockpiles); Transferred trans-women in Federal prisons to men’s prisons; Turned over sensitive documents to DOGE; Targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for dismantlement; Fired the Director...

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Beyond the law: What it means to weaponize the government

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By John & Nisha Whitehead President Donald Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic. This...

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Reader’s Voice: Public Safety Sales Tax, money waste

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March 17, 2025Dear editor; There are still townhall meetings for the Kane County Public Safety Sales Tax, so I am happy I probably can come March 20 since I am familiar with the church and it is a time, 6:30 p.m. I can probably exit my driveway at 6 p.m....

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Feature Opinion

Trump tribulations: Stock market, Canadian conquest

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Anybody out there taken a gander at your 401(k)s lately? If you’re curious, you can log in to your retirement accounts and watch them evaporate like clouds of gas that Donald Trump lets fly in the front rows of a courtroom. Right now, 401(k)s are worth nearly 20% less than...

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Opinion Political

U.S. needs to communicate with respect, not be divided

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As we watch the new Donald Trump Administration defy accepted norms for behavior and implement what look like extreme measures and chaos, it does not serve us to spend our time insulting fellow Americans who have different views, when there is so much research to be done in understanding which...

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When dissent becomes a crime: The war on speech

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By John & Nisha Whitehead You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship. You can’t expect to have...

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Reader’s Voice: Conversation with Lauren Underwood

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March 10, 2025Dear editor; March 9, a huge number of us had the pleasure to meet with District 14 congresswoman Lauren Underwood in Joliet. We learned the many suits filed and ways our courts are fighting back against White House Executive Orders and other illegal actions taken by South African...

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Reader’s Voice: Trouble in paradise with new admin.

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March 8, 2025Dear editor; Favored guests and G.O.P. legislators smiled attentively during Donald Trump’s marathon message to Congress March 5th, where they were apparently unphased by the barrage of exaggerations and falsehoods. Standing and cheering became the norm as they competed to outdo each other, as if they were trying...

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Musings: Trump, transportation, Zelensky

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Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter three): He has: Weakened tailpipe-emission standards; Eliminated all electric-vehicle policies; Declared a “national emergency” designed to weaken environmental standards; Gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a prelude to a status of “independence”; Began work to abolish Department of Education...

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War on truth: Doublespeak, delusion, and propaganda

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By John & Nisha Whitehead The Deep State’s war on truth is being waged with doubletalk, delusion and propaganda. Through deliberate manipulation of language, what George Orwell called “doublespeak”, Donald Trump has provided cover for the Deep State’s continued grip on power. While promising to drain the swamp, his administration...

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Reader’s Voice: Illinois’ Pritzker wrong about the Right

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February 25, 2025Dear editor; During his recent budget address, governor JB Pritzker pretentiously proclaimed, “We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one,” referring to president Donald Trump. Ironic when you consider it was Pritzker who issued at least 41 consecutive disaster...

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Is that still workin’ for ya? Trump at it again

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If you thought the first three weeks of living in the kingdom of self-proclaimed King Donald Trump was like being forced to listen to fingernails being scratched on a hundred blackboards, the last week was as if your own fingernails were added to the cacophony of scratching. Sure, we’re all...

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Reader’s Commentary: DOGE finding fraud; the left defend fraudsters

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda To this point, more than $500 billion, of taxpayer money, has gone missing. Yet the Media/Dems target Elon Musk and DOGE, calling them racists and Nazi’s. This is the level of discourse on the political left. Name calling and blame on Musk and DOGE are the...

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Nullifying the Constitution won’t make America great again

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By John & Nisha Whiteheadjohnw@rutherford.org Anyone who wants to put America first needs to start by putting the Constitution first. This should be non-negotiable. Winning an election does not give president Donald Trump, or any politician, the authority to sidestep the U.S. Constitution and remake the government at will. That’s...

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Reader’s Voice: Energy usage, plastic waste, Kane sales tax

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February 22, 2025Dear editor; The news is out about the new U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. He was sworn in Friday, Feb. 21 by president Donald Trump. There are about 47,000 employees under the Secretary of Commerce. The gist of a PBS broadcast was there are looming “merger”...

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King Trump’s troubling sins, expanding power

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Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter two): He has: Curtailed the prosecutions against persons accused of blocking reproductive-rights facilities; Revoked the ban on employment discrimination; Ordered all Federal government agencies to make lists of businesses and universities which promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; Demanded that Denmark cede Greenland...

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The Ways ‘We the People’ Keep Losing Our Freedoms

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By John & Nisha Whitehead Almost one month into the Donald Trump presidency, and the U.S. Constitution and the entire section on the various branches of government and how they work together are still missing from the White House website. This is no small thing. This omission, deliberate or inadvertent,...

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Egg prices up, Trump and cronies richer every day

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Hasn’t it been a wonderful three weeks (only three?) since Donny Dimwit took over technically as president, or actually co-president? The price of eggs and other grocery items are up, gas prices are up, inflation is up. How’s that workin’ for ya? Thousands of our fellow workers are out of...

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Reader’s Commentary: Democrats against audit, DOGE to root out wasteful spending

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By Bela “Bill” Suhayda The Democrats, along with Chuck “Chucky Cheese” Schumer, “Wayne’s World” Johnson and Charles “The Sponge” Coddington, yell from the rooftops DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) should stop investigations into how our hard earned tax dollars are spent. They don’t want the IRS, Treasury, or Pentagon audited...

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Reader’s Voice: ‘April Fools Day’ Tax Referendum

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February 7, 2025Dear editor; Taxpayers are the government’s “bankers of last resort”. When politicians over-spend and over-tax in fiscally irresponsible ways, it’s ultimately up to us taxpayers to say “no more”. According to its audited financial statements filed with the Illinois State Comptroller, the Kane County Board’s Ruling Democrat Super-Majority...

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