COVID-19 is hurting black Americans more in almost every way
COVID-19 is more likely to kill black Americans, and for those that survive, the pandemic will take a devastating toll on their jobs and future earning potential, a new McKinsey...
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DEATH QUESTIONS
Once again the ''death doctor'' Jack Kevorkian is in the news for helping his patients end their lives. I suppose that if you believe death is the end of everything...
BOOMER BUST
What is wrong with the baby boomers? Back in the `60s, they had the solution for every problem. Today they can`t even keep the thieves of Washington from stealing their...
CATHOLIC PRESSURE
As a Catholic, I can understand reader J.D. Meyer`s apprehension over some bishops denying the eucharistic sacrament to Catholic legislators if they support legal abortion. It is easy to imagine...
VIET `PRESENCE`
Brian De Palma`s new movie ''Casualties of War,'' about the rape and murder of a Vietnamese girl by a platoon of American soldiers, is described by him, according to one...
`REDUCE DEER`
We should rethink our policy on the proliferating deer in the forests around the Chicago area. Just in our town, which has only one small forest preserve, there have been...
PENALIZING THRIFT
A friend who sells building supplies tells me that he gets requests for unneeded remodeling projects from federal agencies afraid of not spending all the money allotted to them. Isn`t...
`HUMAN ENOUGH`
If fetuses are human enough to provide the new strain of laboratory mice with genuine, workable human immune cells, why do the pro-choice people still insist that what exists inside...
`CLARITY HURTS`
Who won the presidential debate? I`d say, from the standpoint of eloquence, incisiveness and clarity, Dukakis was the winner. But being the winner of the debate does not necessarily make...