By John Kass | Sunday December 21, 2025

See that devilishly handsome geezer in his red leather “man chair” in his study holding his No Chumbolone Zone cup with the fireplace going?

Yeah, that’s me.

And from that chair, I ask a question: I’m asking you to pour yourself a good cup of Midwestern common sense and get a year’s subscription to JohnKassNews.com

And while you’re at it, get one for yourself, your dad, your mom, your brother or sister.

It’s only $50 a year. And with that yearly subscription, you get two months free.

That figures out to  less than one dollar a week.

And for that yearly subscription price, what do you get?

You receive two original columns a week written by me and my Chicago Way podcast direct to your email inbox.

And there’s more each week too.

Wisdom and great guest columns by great writers, including Dan Proft, James Banakis, Steve the Pilot, Dr. Greg Ganske, David Bittinger, Dr. Cory Franklin, Marie Sullivan, Patrick Hickey and more.

Why?

Because it’s Christmas. Because you’re looking for a distinctive gift that won’t make you fat. Because you know in your heart that JohnKassNews.com is worth it.

And because it’s time. Most of the other media—the left leaning legacy corporate media–has gone bat (bleep) crazy.

For example, the Chicago Sun Times just celebrated a demon from hell for Christmas. The headline:

“Here comes Krampus: How the half-goat, half-demon became a cultural phenomenon”

Merry Christmas all you kids out there learning all about demonic Krampus. Pleasant dreams.

What’s next, shrunken heads stuffed into the Christmas stockings?

At JohnKassNews we don’t worry about fake demons. We think on the real ones and ways to stop them. The woman burners let out of jail by political bosses who play race politics. The political activists glorifying the torture of children as they call it “gender affirming.”

And the Deep State devils who manipulate The Constitution and smile at you and speak in reasonable tones while they’re shoveling dung down the throats of your kids and countrymen.

I’ve been fighting against that for decades and decades. And many of you have been with me in the fight to save our country from the insidious left.

And the woke and broke Tribune? I really don’t know or care. I use a mirror to look at my back to notice the scars of the puncture wounds. You were there. You helped heal me.

What I do know and care about is what we do, our country and our culture.

The late American conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart News had a mantra.

“Politics is downstream from culture.”

Of course, but just consider the culture we’re drowning in. I just recently scanned some recent columns to get a sense of it. Consider:

Illinois Gov. Pritzker spending $2 billion in tax dollars on the illegal migrants and taking care of his CTU shock troops while ignoring the legitimate needs of the native born dreaming of good public education for their own children.

Boss Toni Preckwinkle using stooges (judges) to shrink the jail so repeat violent offenders walk the street and burn that girl alive on the CTA?

And the constant and growing political corruption bleeding our country dry.

The old media is dead, strangled by the Jacobins of the left. And those who strangled it have billions behind them to twist the words of those of us who oppose them. You know this. You want to be informed, but you hear the requiem mass for the newspapers of your youth.

The news is slanted so far to the left, so solicitous of the Deep State, they’ll never tell you how bad it’s become or how much of your freedom has been taken.

But I don’t give two figs for the Deep State rats or their political enablers and their conspiracies against America.

Will the broken mainstream media tell you what the weasels have done?

No. But I will.  You know that too.

Let’s stand together. I need all of you at JohnKassNews.com. May God keep you and bless you. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.

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