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Focused on Chicago Mayoral Polls? Don’t be a Chumbolone, Focus on Chuy Garcia, and Dark Money from Indicted Swindler Sam Bankman-Fried

By John Kass December 16, 2022 What’s up with the breathless Chicago news media reports about those mayoral polls? Money.…

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An Irish Fable

By Michael Ledwith December 14, 2022 Thornton: Well, some things a man doesn’t get over so easy. Mary Kate: Like what,…

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Have You (Unwittingly) Become a Stochastic Terrorist? Or is it all just Greek to you?

By Greg Ganske December 11, 2022 Recently while watching the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC I discovered that I could…

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Left Behind: The Marine Got The Worst of Biden’s Brittney Griner Deal

By John Kass December 9, 2022 The American media love happy endings, especially when the politicians they support are on…

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Twitter Files Fallout: President Avenatti and that Media “Herd O’ Whores”

By John Kass December 7, 2022 Today’s column didn’t sprout from the 1523 woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the Elder of…

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As Elon Musk Releases “Twitter Files,” You’ll Need Miranda Devine’s “Laptop from Hell”

By John Kass December 4, 2022 The American left is shrieking in rage over Elon Musk’s weekend release of “The…

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Behold the Golden Moutza of November: “That’s Huge!”

By John Kass December 1, 2022 Are there enough hands in the world to provide Golden Moutza justice to the…

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The Racial Squabble in College Admissions: What Does it Cover Up?

By Steve Huntley November 30, 2022 No one builds a house from the roof down. It’s constructed from the ground…

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For a Blessed and Happy American Thanksgiving

By John Kass Thanksgiving Day 2022 For the past several years I’ve called upon a local smart-ass called Mr. Thanksgiving…

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Chicago Loses a Treasure

by Cory Franklin November 23, 2022 When Queen Elizabeth II died, the best newspaper obituary writer in Chicago, Maureen O’Donnell,…

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As Chicago’s Mayoral Race Takes Shape, Does Lightfoot Really Deliver?

By John Kass November 20, 2022 By John Kass November 20, 2022 Just as I sat down to write this…

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Can a Nation Survive without a Center?

By Ray Hanania November 18, 2022 America is polarized by leaders of the far Left and far Right rallying voters…

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Will Trump and Biden Allow Americans to Set Aside Our Tomahawks for Thanksgiving?

By John Kass November 16, 2022 America has been feasting for years on angry politics and toxic politics and tribal…

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The Winner, Boss Toni: The New Borg Queen with Chicago Violent Crime in her Lap. Resistance is Futile. Just ask Lori Lightfoot.

By John Kass Nov. 13, 2022 Oh, so you see the word “winner”  in a headline and you expected what,…

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Veterans Day and “Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”

By Michael Ledwith November 11, 2022 Vietnam was my generation’s war. If fate had bent slightly this way or that…

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