Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
April 23, 2025 By John Kass When we were young raising our family, pinching pennies to pay the mortgage and…
Christos Anesti!! Christ is Risen!!
By John Kass April 20, 2025 How it began: When mankind became civilized, we stopped following wild herds for meat…
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American Jazz and Freedom
by Marie T. Sullivan This is a true story about a boy who realized his dream. Gregory (not his real…
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Houlihan’s “Duty” for Holy Week
By Mike Houlihan April 16th, 2025 We’re in the middle of Holy Week and that always brings me back to…
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What Did We Talk About When We Talked About Lent?
By John Kass April 13, 2025 Today is Palm Sunday for the Christian world. It is the beginning of Holy…
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The Nosferatu of Baseball
By Cory Franklin April 11, 2025 Pete Rose never seems to go away – he is the Nosferatu of Major…
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Wall Street Panicans and Democrat Fearmongers: What Do We Owe America’s Children?
By John Kass April 9, 2025 Betty and I have an old car that is pushing 200,000 miles. It still…
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All Things Considered Behold the Golden Moutza
By John Kass Sunday April 6, 2025 The history of the Golden Moutza reaches back to the Byzantine empire, to…
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Put Away Childish Things, Especially Those Dopey Chants
By David Bittinger April 4th, 2025 Children are often adorable. Childish adults are never adorable. I’m lucky to have one…
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NPR & Public Television: Leftists Using Government to Take Your Money Without Asking
By John Kass April 2, 2025 I’m not some big corporate business tycoon, with fat marketing budgets and lobbyists and…
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Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?
By Steve Huntley | March 30, 2025 I’m old enough to remember when Hitler personified incomparable, bottomless, merciless evil. These…
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How Corporate Media Narratives Distort Reality About Ukraine
By Nicholas S. Kass March 28, 2025 Reading today’s [March 23] powerful column by John Kass about the damage to…
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If Mayor Six Percent is the Second Coming of Harold, then I’m the Count of Monte Christo
By John Kass March 26, 2025 Fran Spielman, a great old-school Chicago reporter for the dying Sun-Times newspaper, still knows…
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HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA
By John Kass March 23, 2025 When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big…
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Josephine’s Mystery Meat
By James Banakis March 21, 2025 I always enjoy telling restaurant stories because they are so relatable. Since the beginning…