Column: Our year in Chicago: Moving back to the city
Now about that whopper I've been telling you, about how we moved to the Shire, to live among the gentle Hobbits, in a quaint Hobbit hole near a picturesque windmill....
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Column: Surprise. Women love liver sausage, too.
My dear wife, Betty, made me a liver sausage sandwich for lunch, a true kindness since she positively loathes the stuff. But stupid me, that's when I dropped the bad...
Column: A cop invokes the Constitution to urge #coronavirus resistance
Port of Seattle cop Greg Anderson expects he'll lose his job for warning other officers across the country — in a video that went viral — to resist and to...
Column: Gov. Pritzker says he understands frustrations of business owners. What do the restaurant guys think?
The other day I went out to talk with restaurant guys. They once fed hungry people for a living. Now they're restaurant guys without customers. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the trust...
Column: Americans are too afraid of risk. What we need in this pandemic is balance
Are we still all in this together? It sounds like a shepherd singing to a flock while driving them to market. And that other one, the "stay safe" thing? It...
Column: How does Gov. J.B. Pritzker — and how do local governments — collect taxes from businesses he’s shut down?
Before Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker came out with his five-phase plan to reopen a state he shut down for the coronavirus pandemic — he forgot something. He forgot to seek...
Column: A hat tip to the workers in meat plants, doing a dirty and dangerous job during the pandemic
With coronavirus breakouts in American meat packing plants, and some plants shut down and others on limited production as they clean the facilities, we're seeing reports of a meat shortage....
Column: The Kavanaugh-Biden double standard and an appalling lack of curiosity over Michael Flynn
If there were ever a time that the American people needed credible national journalism, it is now, during this awful coronavirus pandemic. But for many reasons, whatever trust the people...
Column: The Golden Moutza for April: Pence? Pelosi? Lightfoot? Or maybe something less human.
As the Golden Moutza of April approached, I'd hoped we'd be saved by an indicted politician, weeping at his arraignment, blaming it all on a Viagra addiction. Or some Florida...
Column: Can Gov. J.B. Pritzker handle the pushback against his coronavirus edicts?
There is a disturbing gentleness oozing from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, even as he defends his capricious coronavirus edicts. Pritzker's edicts allow people to stand in line to buy whiskey at...