NOW fails to squash abortion protesters with RICO
Just how small-minded and vindictive the National Organization for Women is was revealed for all to see last week in the federal appeals court here. That's where NOW got slapped...
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Are women being denied equal pay? Or not?
Tuesday is "Equal Pay Day." Meaning that it's time again to unleash the hounds to flush out all those misogynists who are keeping women in chains. Women's paychecks don't equal...
Can Illinois afford Obama’s library?
Chicago is where Barack Obama's presidential library and museum should be. Nowhere else comes close to making a legitimate claim. Hawaii, Obama's native state? Columbia University in New York City...
In need of an honest debate on immigration reform
This debate over immigration has degenerated into a tiresome slander fest. From the far reaches of one side comes the charge that immigration reformers only want to destroy our values...
Madigan borrows a page from the tea party
Just when we thought that Illinois politics couldn't get any goofier, along comes House Speaker Michael Madigan now wanting to slash a huge state income tax increase that he pushed...
Madigan borrows a page from the tea party
Just when we thought that Illinois politics couldn't get any goofier, along comes House Speaker Michael Madigan now wanting to slash a huge state income tax increase that he pushed...
Is privacy a thing of the past?
Pay with cash. With your extremely private, very personal and top-secret financial information leaking like a sieve all over the Internet, perhaps it's time to return to better times. Like...
Stop the polarization of climate change
Was it global warming that last week threatened to freeze-dry America? While most Americans were struggling just to stay warm, the political atmosphere turned superheated about whether human activity caused...
Stop the polarization of climate change
Was it global warming that last week threatened to freeze-dry America? While most Americans were struggling just to stay warm, the political atmosphere turned superheated about whether human activity caused...
The cost of radical individualism
American political thought and practice have become so muddled that we need to think of new ways to insult each other. "Conservative wingnuts" and "liberal flakes" just won't do any...