Taking a hatchet to moderate government
Go ahead, attack promoters of moderate government. Paint them as flakes, kooks and goons. Call them unhinged and unglued. Toxic, mean-spirited, shrill and dangerous. Nothing would please us more than...
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Taking a hatchet to moderate government
Go ahead, attack promoters of moderate government. Paint them as flakes, kooks and goons. Call them unhinged and unglued. Toxic, mean-spirited, shrill and dangerous. Nothing would please us more than...
Battling the bulge: Here’s where to slash the budget
Two weeks ago I suggested that climbing out of our financial sinkhole requires us to fundamentally downsize our expectations of what we can milk from government ("Champagne taste with a...
Oh, no! Another disappearing act in Chicago
Funny, how some things in Chicago just disappear. Like the former lakefront airport, Meigs Field, bulldozed in a middle-of-the-night blitzkrieg ordered by Mayor Richard Daley. Or a sign posted a...
Champagne taste with a beer budget
Nice try, governor, but when you asked the people of Illinois how to balance the state budget, you got thousands of responses, but not one that I could see who...
Are the Dems really that clueless about health care?
— The last time I heard Newt Gingrich predict that Republicans would take over Congress was 16 years ago when he was pushing his "Contract with America." I said he...
Ideological opponents take on health care
To Dennis Byrne, I'm delighted that you've agreed to devote my space and yours today to discussing health care reform, one of the many issues upon which we almost certainly...
Ouch! When the feds manage health care
If you have any doubts about the future of American health care when Washington runs it, just look at the uproar over a government panel's recommendations about breast cancer screening....
Chicago overwhelmed with spineless saps
Put away all those references to Chicago as the brawling and gritty rough house of Nelson Algren, Mike Royko and Dick Butkus. Forget Carl Sandburg's timeless portrayal of Chicago as...
If we’re going to cap those outrageous payments …
What would you think about the government cutting the paychecks of executives running those bailed-out banks to about, or even less than, what teachers earn? Make that what retired teachers...