In Therapy With Tony Rezko’s Groundskeeper: Orange Man Broke Me
By John Kass Aug. 24, 2025 Doctor, I’m so screwed. You see the news about the FBI raiding neocon John…
The Tale of Three Cities
By James Banakis August 22nd, 2025 I’ve always been a city boy. I got together with a group of friends…
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What Tree Do We Plant Now?
By John Kass August 20th, 2025 I’m a fool for not listening to the woodpecker. He was trying to tell…
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Obama is the New Nixon
By John Kass Sunday August 17, 2025 Barack Obama is the new Nixon. There, I wrote it down and my…
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Brandon Johnson’s War on the Black Community
By Paul Vallas August 15th, 2025 Mayor Brandon Johnson fashions himself as the successor to former Mayor Harold Washington, presenting…
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A Broken Father, a Broken Nation
By John Kass August 13, 2025 The other day I did something I haven’t done in quite a while: Interview…
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Behold the Power: The Golden Moutza of the Month
By John Kass August 10, 2025 You’ve heard of “the Cincinnati beat down?” One of the victims, a mother of…
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The Audacity of a Trailblazer
By James Banakis August 8, 2025 There’s a delightful Irish story about two young boys who come upon a high…
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Brendan Reilly, Boss Toni and The Chicago Way
By John Kass August 6, 2025 If there ever was an Italian artist who would have understood Chicago politics and…
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Your Lying Eyes
By Steve Huntley August 3rd, 2025 Don’t believe your lying eyes. That pretty much sums up the progressive approach to…
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The Faustian Bargain of Rock and Roll
By Cory Franklin August 1st, 2025 Do drugs make musicians more creative? The United States and Great Britain in the 1960s…
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There Was a Book
By John Kass July 30, 2025 What was the name of that book? You know the one. You can see…
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When Obama Began Strangling the Republic “By the Book” Part II
By John Kass Sunday July 27, 2025 I’ve been greatly honored to be asked to give a talk at Hillsdale…
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Told By an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
By James Banakis July 25th, 2025 Don’t be puzzled by this line from Macbeth. It’s not a commentary on my…
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When Obama Began Strangling the Republic “By the Book”
By John Kass July 23, 2025 It was a cold Sunday morning in Chicago in February 2003—I was driving over…