Charlie and Me
By Pat Hickey April 1st, 2026 My life has been like a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, like Henry…
THE MURDER OF SHERIDAN GORMAN AND THE STIFLING OF CHICAGO
By John Kass | Sunday March 29 The worst sound in the world comes from the throat of a father…
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Speech On the Continent
By: Spiro N. Kass Elon Musk’s social media platform X, perennially in the news, was recently raided at its Paris…
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Ireland’s New Patriot
By Mike Houlihan March 25th, 2026 “How do we know Jesus was Irish? He had 12 drinking buddies, worked as…
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Suppression of Dissent in a One-Party State: An Honored Judge Fights Back
By John Kass Sunday March 22, 2026 The highly rated retired common-sense Cook County judge had something bothering him, something…
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Chicago’s Criminal Industrial Complex Meets Its First Real Check
By Paul Vallas March 20th, 2026 Chicago has spent years paying hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful-conviction civil settlements.…
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Behind the Glareshield
By Steve the Pilot March 18th, 2026 I was trying to figure out what to write about that might interest…
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Measles and What the Media and Experts Are Not Asking
By Cory Franklin March 15th, 2026 Most news reports about the current status of measles in the United States are formulaic…
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50 Year Reign of Queen Catherine O’Connell
By Mike Houlihan March 13th,2026 Old friends are dropping dead in every direction but still we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.…
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The Illinois Clean Slate Act: Politics Over Victims, Law, and Public Safety — And It’s Unconstitutional
Editors Note: This column is posted with the express permission of Chief Tom Weitzel of Awake Illinois I believe in…
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Remedial Citizenship
By David Bittinger March 8th, 2026 You’ve probably noticed an outdoor activity that’s increasingly popular in America now: chaos and…
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Columbus Didn’t Fall to Leftist Protesters. He fell to Privileged Cowards
By Salvatore Camarda March 6th, 2026 Let’s stop pretending this is about history and call this what it actually is.…
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Iran’s Theocratic Regime: The Real Obstacle to Middle East Peace
By Paul Vallas March 5th,2026 Iran under the Ayatollahs is an authoritarian theocratic regime that imposes strict Islamic law, including…
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Can Democrats Erase Trump?
By Steve Huntley March 1st, 2026 Is Donald Trump, as his MAGA base hopes, a transformative president, one who will…
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Concurrent Sentencing Must Be Abolished When Multiple Violent Crimes Result in a Single Effective Sentence, Justice Collapses
By Chief Tom Weitzel (Ret.) Fellow of Law Enforcement – Awake Illinois February 27th, 2026 There is a quiet provision…