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Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts
Thursday, July 4, 2019

To be honest, flag-motif t-shirts are kind of garish and not ‘real American’

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I have no doubt I’m going to see more than my share of people Thursday clad in t-shirts bearing the red, white and blue colors – if not depi...
Friday, April 6, 2012

64 + 75. Are we in for worse in 2012?

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The real baseball season in Chicago begins Friday, yet the return of professional ball keeps making me think about the conditions that exis...
Monday, September 12, 2011

When is a U.S. flag shirt disrespectful? And when is it just downright tacky!

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I couldn’t help but think of the late Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman on Sunday. It’s too bad he’s no longer on this planet, because I can’t ...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Patriot, or trash-picker?

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It has been a week since I first learned of the activities of Jeff Olsen, and I have to confess that I still don’t know what to make of him....
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Flag Day is Argus of old’s Glory Day

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I have never claimed this weblog to be in any way affiliated with the old Chicago Argus newspaper. But if ever there was a day to recall tha...
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I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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