Dennis Byrne

Why was there even mild surprise last week when a jury convicted former Illinois Gov. George Ryan of corruption? When Illinois juries get their hands on a governor, they tend...

In H.G. Wells' "Time Machine," the helplessly fattened Eloi spend most of their time waiting around their pleasant surroundings to be snatched away by cannibal Morlocks. Those succulent pinkish Eloi...

Long ago, that supposed "giant sucking sound" of American jobs heading south to Mexico began to be muffled by a stampede of illegal immigrants coming north to grab away more...

Is The New York Times going bi-polar, or what? The nation's imperial paper recently said it wouldn't engage in off-the-record sit-downs with President Bush, an invitation that other papers have...

For many Roman Catholics, the latest round of disclosures about pedophile priests in the Chicago archdiocese is the end of their patience with an institution that is incapable of or...

If you want to discover how a perfectly healthy pink state turns into a lasting blue one, look no further than Illinois. For years, Republicans often won statewide and federal...

In a few weeks, Baby Boomers will start turning 60. Whining will be heard across the land. The lamentations will continue for 18 years, until all 77 million Boomers (anyone...

As the Senate is entering the great debate over illegal immigration, it's imperative to examine the frequent claim of "immigrants' rights." Bluntly said, people who are illegally in this country...

Thankfully, we landlubbers in Illinois have handy local experts in port security and other nautical affairs to explain why letting a Dubai-controlled company operate American ports is so dangerous. Adm....

The achievement gap between blacks and whites is the tragic result of centuries of isolation, inequality, exclusion and separation of the races. How regrettable, then, that self-separation now is considered...