Monday, August 22, 2016

What does Cubs ‘Magic Number’ mean for those fans who could care less?

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We’re at that point of the baseball season where teams that have played somewhat respectfully start thinking seriously about the chance tha...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Madigan, Rauner tried this week to outgun each other amidst the stink of livestock waste at Illinois state fair

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It has been a few years since I last went to an Illinois State Fair, although it sounds like this year the politicking reached a level of i...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Better late than never, but I’m sure some will still complain it inadequate

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I’m sure the Chicago Police Department has fantasies about being able to put to rest all those people who have spent months complaining (ye...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

EXTRA: My regrets I can’t comprehend Arabic in the least

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I’m usually pretty loose when it comes to public comments. I’ll let people say just about anything they want here, so long as they don’t de...

Why, oh why, would he want to be president; for the television ratings?

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For Hillary Clinton, the reason she’d want to be U.S. president is simple. She’s the ambitious sort who probably thinks that if her husband...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Playing politics with the tax man; is the voting public just like Rhett Butler?

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Yes, it’s just a politically partisan stunt, bordering on trivial, for a group calling itself the Democratic Coalition Against Trump to try...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Who’s kidding whom? We don’t (or shouldn’t) require immigrant standards

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump showed us all on Monday why his line of reasoning makes him unfit to be president of the Uni...