Et tu, David Axelrod?
By Cory Franklin August 28th, 2026 At the legendary South Loop delicatessen, Manny’s, every stratum of Chicagoan comes to enjoy…
Francesca Hong, We Hardly Knew Ye
By James Banakis August 26th, 2026 As a lifelong Chicagoland resident, I have a challenging, love/hate relationship with our neighboring…
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Daddy, Where Do Communists Come From?
By David Bittinger August 23rd,2026 Children are curious and easily frightened. They want explanations for everything scary. For instance —…
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Anti-Semitism and the Unholy Alliance Between the Far Left and Radical Islam
By Paul Vallas August 21st, 2026 There is an alliance between the far left and Islamist fundamentalists that is based…
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Only Fauci Knows – And He’s Not Telling
By Cory Franklin August 19,2026 On January 26, 2020, one week after the first COVID patient was hospitalized in the…
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The Road Less Traveled
By James Banakis August 16th, 2026 Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously defined poetry as, “the best words in the best order“.…
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CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION’S SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IS A SCAM
By Paul Vallas August 12th,2026 Having approved yet another unbalanced city budget that does little to address the district’s abysmal…
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The Democratic Socialists Are Coming!
By James Banakis August 9th, 2026 Last night I rewatched a movie I had forgotten from my teens, The Russians…
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Remember the Covid Tyranny? Democratic Socialists Think You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.
By David Bittinger August 7th, 2026 In the summer of 1958, the New York Yankees were cruising to another triumphant…
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The Ava Gardner of Fruits
By Pat Hickey August 5, 2026 I authored the following article for Irish American News in September of 2020. Since…
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Governor Pritzker’s “Vulgar” Education Record
By Paul Vallas July 31, 2026 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker appears to regard vulgarity as acceptable. Recall his remarks at…
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When DJs Were DJs- The Last of a Dying Breed
By Cory Franklin July 30th 2026 Chicago is arguably the city with a history of more great radio disc jockeys…
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts: Nolan’s Cowardly Betrayal of The Odyssey and the Greek People
By John Kass Sunday July 26, 2026 The Odyssey of Homer is an intensely personal book for me, the most…
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts: Nolan’s Cowardly Betrayal of The Odyssey and the Greek People
By John Kass Sunday July 26, 2026 The Odyssey of Homer is an intensely personal book for me, the most…
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“With a Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence”
By James Banakis July 24th, 1016 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently stated in a directive, “Our rights as citizens…