Christians claim that their argument supporting God is an intellectual one. Yet, statistically, 86 percent of those with a high school diploma or less do, in fact, believe in God, while 91 percent of those with a master’s degree or higher do not believe in God.
Dave, Oak Lawn
Donna Vickroy wrote a long column about children of illegal immigrants. How did these kids manage to stay here so long? Why weren’t they and their parents deported long ago? How did they into the schools? My kids have to have a birth certificate, proof of vaccination and evidence of residence to go to school. When a problem is allowed to fester for this long, the media blames the United States of America and the evil taxpayers and conservatives for the problem. I have a solution — Why don’t all the bleeding-heart liberals adopt these kids and pay for them. Voila. Problem solved.
Tinley Park
The teacher from Blue Island at Eisenhower High School who is going to travel to Washington to fight for undocumented students should stick to teaching. If she needs a cause, then try helping the homeless vets. Oh wait, that might not get your picture in the paper.
Joe, Oak Lawn
I enjoyed reading Kathleen Parkers’ opinion on Bernie Sanders and the pope. “Greater effort toward raising the bottom rather than tearing down the top would seem a better approach than extreme measures that likely would have a destabilizing effect.” I agree with this idea. But finding the people to make this happen seems to be a perpetual pipe dream. Whatever happened to living by the golden rule?
MJ, Worth
I’d like to respond to Nora’s letter to the editor. Are you living under a rock? It was in the news and newspapers that the state was no longer sending out notices. If I remember correctly, the state only saved about $400,000 but lost about $1 million in revenue because people forgot to renew their stickers. You obviously read the paper since you wrote a letter, but you must have breezed over the rest. Also, if the private property owner gives permission to the police to come onto their property to write tickets then, yes, they can write tickets on private property.
KH, Tinley Park
Regarding U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly’s letter to the editor and many other Democrats and legislators calling for Merrick Garland to be interviewed to replace late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and to do our duty: She and others ought to research what Joe Biden, then-U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said about not naming a replacement nominee until after the election’s completed. When President Barack Obama was a U.S. senator and Justice Samuel Alito was nominated by then-President George W. Bush, Obama said Alito was well-qualified but he didn’t agree with the nominee’s politics. It’s your chickens coming home to roost. Garland may be well-qualified, but Republicans don’t believe in his politics, particularly when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Orland Park
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich has been told that he should drop out, and the Ohio governor’s response was: “I’m not going anywhere.” Well, he’s exactly right. He’s not going anywhere. He might as well drop out.
Jimbo, Chicago Heights
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is buying votes, promising kids to pay for their college. It’s wrong. This is the whole problem with this young generation. Everything is handed to them. They have the best in shoes, computers and phones because mommy and daddy get it, or kids steal it. What’s wrong with them working hard like we did, working our way through college or other education, or going to a community college and then a full-time college? Some work might give them backbone and teach values they need. Don’t fall for this con by Sanders. There’s no way he can pay for college for everyone in this country, nor should he. Don’t be gullible. Show you have a brain.
Annie
Everyone’s so mad at former Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie getting all that money for retirement. Don’t be mad at him. He played the game right. If you’re going to be mad at anybody, be mad at the political organization in your township or community that allows that school district’s board to pay these guys. When you have these school elections, take a look at the salaries of administrators and teachers. Then ask yourself, “Are we getting bang for the buck?” At Reavis High School in Burbank, we’ve got Cook County High School District 220 spending money like drunken sailors. We have two administrators making more than $225,000 a year. Every other school has one administrator.
Burbank
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