Is America’s Election System Rigged?
2016-06-12 – Is America’s election system rigged? The short answer is yes. It’s probably not possible to have a rig-free system. But some systems do better than others. And some […]
Tag Archives: Politics
Make Sure You Boycott Oat Puffies!
2016-06-07 – So the clarion call has gone out in liberal circles: Boycott Home Depot! The current boycott from the left is due Home Depot’s founder Bernard Marcus’ decision to […]
City of Chicago Still Paying Hush Money to Keep Bad Cops in Business
2016-06-02 – A couple months ago we heard Dean Angelo, president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, whine that efforts to break the force’s code of silence would hurt morale […]
The Graduate Walk Speaks Volumes Without Words
2016-05-24 – Public oratory is pretty much disdained in this country. We don’t have time for it. Or we distrust it. We listen to sermons only if we show up […]
Play by the Rules – Not Me!
2016-05-17 – Above my desk I have a ribbon that I got a couple years ago at a conference for making a small contribution to the charity that was sponsored […]
Now You Need an ID to Report a Crime in Chicago
2016-05-10 – The other day, a friend of the family had his cell phone stolen on a train here in Chicago. He had a few IDs and credit cards attached […]
The Democratic Party Needs to Be the Party of Working Americans
2016-05-05 – Andrew Sullivan has a disturbing article in New York magazine entitled “Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic—And Right Now, America Is a Breeding Ground for Tyranny.” In […]
Election Lottery
2016-05-03 – So tonight, both Hillary and The Donald will inch their way another step toward clinching their parties’ nominations. It could be over in both cases or it could […]
Tut-Tut the Trump
2016-05-01 – So now the pundits are saying they never thought for a million years that Donald Trump could get as far as he has (while they have been not-so-covertly […]
Suggest-a-Veep Matchup
2016-04-27 – Now that Ted Cruz has announced that Carly Fiorina is his choice for Vice President, I wonder if any other former candidates will follow suit. Anyone willing to […]
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