Guest column–Cory Franklin: There’s A Reason They Call It Acting
By Cory Franklin What do Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Helen Mirren have in common? Two of the greatest performers…
About that Biden, Schumer “Thelma & Louise” scenario, The Chicago Way
By John Kass For a man who really, really knows politics I’m shocked that my friend Tom Bevan–co-founder and president…
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Like “Thelma & Louise,” Biden and Schumer drive the Democrats off the cliff
By John Kass After somberly promising to unify the nation just a year ago, President Joe Biden, with his poll…
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The Ken Griffin political hat-trick to change the broken politics of Illinois: Back Vallas, fund a challenger to Preckwinkle, and then take Pritzker out.
By John Kass If you look up in the sky and squint, you might see giant meat-eating bird-like creatures with…
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Guest column Cory Franklin: If You See Something, Say Something
By Cory Franklin “When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose You’re invisible now, you’ve got no…
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The Wake of “the Bricklayer” and his Story of Life
By John Kass Have you heard all the political screaming lately? Who could miss it? In Washington the Democrats were…
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After Chicago Teachers School Shutdown, Does Lightfoot Have the Guts to go Nuclear with Real School Choice and Save the City?
By John Kass The militant hard left bosses of the Chicago Teachers Union closed schools again this week, leaving students…
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“Kasstradamus” and the Tom Bevan Show
By John Kass It was an honor that Tom Bevan, my good friend and co-founder and president of Real Clear…
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Ringing (or Whistling ) in the New Year, with the Golden Moutza of the Month
By John Kass “I nominate the entire year of 2021!!” writes Agatha Mantanes. “annus horriblis. Nah!” Yes Agatha, it was…
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Guest Column–Matt Rosenberg: It’s “Office Time” For Chicago: Let’s Spitball The City’s Future
By Matt Rosenberg When I drove a Yellow Cab in Chicago in the late 70s, I learned to love…
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All I really wanted was a White Castle Christmas with Popo the Elf, but I ended up in the ER
By John Kass With Betty isolated in “Covid protocol”—which is passive/aggressive Orwellian scientism bull crap for “staying in her room”—I…
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O Holy Night
By John Kass For all the children who should be loved always, but especially on this Holy Night, with our…
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Give the Gift of Common Sense: A Subscription to JohnKassNews.Com
By John Kass We’re all rushing in these hectic days from Christmas to the New Year and beyond. The frantic…
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Guest Column–Mary Hallan FioRito. Gov Pritzker’s Christmas Gift to Illinois Parents: The State, Not Parents, Decides What You Get To Know About Your Child.
By Mary Hallan FioRito On the Friday afternoon before Christmas–as families prepared for the holiday–Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave Illinois…
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Glenn Loury, Chicago born, on woke policy feeding violent urban crime
By John Kass The rise of violent crime in urban America, nurtured by the policies of liberal defund-the-police Democratic mayors…