As Republican Convention Begins Democrats Come Bearing Gifts
By John Kass July 14, 2024 In a magnificent gesture of brotherly love across the American political divide, the Democrat…
The Silky: The Two Deep State Coups of Barack Obama
July 12, 2024 By John Kass It was the best of presidential coups, it was the worst of presidential coups…Americans…
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Need for Speed…Camera Reform: Chicago’s Robot Enforcement Goes Too Far
By Micky Horstman July 10, 2024 White flash. Orange envelope. Groan. Repeat. The quintessential cycle of getting a speed camera…
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Dr. Jill? Just Say Naaah!!!!
By John Kass Sunday July 7, 2024 There was no Golden Moutza of the Month when Edith Bolling Galt Wilson…
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For Our Independence Day: How to Catch Wild Pigs
by John Kass July 3, 2024 I wrote a version of this one a long time ago, but that’s the…
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Biden Debate Disaster and the Root of Democrat Panic
By John Kass Sunday June 30, 2024 Remember that old political bit about the dangerous 3 a.m. call to the…
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Johnson’s Call for Reparations Are Merely a Diversion From His Policies That Hurt the Black Community
By Paul Vallas June 28, 2024 Let’s be clear, addressing the injustices of and remnants of slavery is a serious…
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The Great Debate: Trump vs Fake Jake the Snake (and Dana)
By John Kass June 27, 2024 It is true that CNN’s Jake the Snake Tapper loathes former President Donald Trump…
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Ed Burke Should Have Hired an Irish Fiddler, but Boss Madigan May Need a Few Keeners
By John Kass June 26, 2024 Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke should have hired himself a fiddler, an Irish fiddler…
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Hunter, Joe and the Shameless 51
June 23, 2024 By John Kass It is all so very loud now, isn’t it? Rather like walking behind the…
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Is the Debate To Be Biden’s Last Stand?
By Steve Huntley June 21, 2024 It’s so strange, so unprecedented and so bizarre that no one is talking about…
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Too Much of Everything
by Marie T. Sullivan June 19, 2024 On a Paris stage in the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald sang April in Paris…
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Biden’s Lawfare Isn’t Working Out as Planned. It’s Working Out Better.
By Dan Proft June 18, 2024 The 1996 film “City Hall” starring Al Pacino as the Mayor of New York…
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China’s Revenge for Opium Wars: Our Fentanyl Epidemic
By Greg Ganske June 14, 2024 My fifth-grade Catholic teacher, Sister Daniel, loved telling us tales of her days as…
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Tax Support Won’t Save Local News, Especially in Illinois
By Brad Weisenstein June 12, 2024 I spent more than three decades delivering local news at my hometown newspaper, a…