The next mayor faces an incredible, shrinking Chicago
Wait, I thought only the Republican Party was being torn asunder by a rift between the establishment middle and the fringe. That impression was nailed down, again, last week by...
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We’re a nation of addicts
If we weren't such a nation of addicts, maybe hordes of drug smugglers wouldn't crash our borders to feed our habit. Maybe drug cartels wouldn't terrorize Mexico and Central America...
What happened to Islam?
What if I told you that Islam once produced the world's most scientifically advanced and intellectually productive civilization? It's true, and you'll probably hear more about it, this being 2015,...
Lucas museum design would be a mistake on the lake
Parents will immediately recognize the design of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that billionaire "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to dump on our lakefront. It should remind parents...
Find the incumbents on your ballot, then vote ‘no’
This is Election Day, and I'm proud to cast my vote against the assorted utopians, finaglers and totally self-involved who are running Illinois and America into the ground. Sure, I...
U.S. power in an unraveling world
Everyone would have been better off if we had just left Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein alone. We would have saved the more than 4,000 American lives and $1 trillion wasted...
Can We the People govern ourselves?
We take for granted that the democratic or republican forms of government are inevitable and natural, that they are the best way to govern, and certainly far ahead of whatever...
Obama’s clueless foreign policy
President Barack Obama's absence from the Oval Office to attend Democratic fundraisers or his failure to appear where children are entering the United States illegally doesn't matter a jot. He...
The heated debate over climate change
As citizens of a self-governing nation, we should, we must, challenge everything. Every assertion, claim, proclamation and dictate should not escape close examination. No matter how certain, how dogmatic and...
The heated debate over climate change
As citizens of a self-governing nation, we should, we must, challenge everything. Every assertion, claim, proclamation and dictate should not escape close examination. No matter how certain, how dogmatic and...