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Column: Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man: Open the bar before noon, and make sure to get video of the family fight

November 22, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Mr. Thanksgiving Advice Man has been busy becoming woke and preparing for the holiday by decolonizing himself to strip away all those nasty "European" influences before the feast. But he...

A former McDonald's worker became a hero when he bragged on Twitter that he secretly gave customers extra Chicken McNuggets for over two years.

Column: The Robin Hood of McNuggets makes customers happy, and without customers is there such a thing as business?

November 21, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

At the diner, Karen the Waitress came over for my order. "What's it going to be?" she asked. "Politics on some politics with a side of — oh, I don't...

Rob Grant, former special agent in charge of Chicago's FBI office, shown in 2012. Recently, Grant said he never understood why the state attorney general and others never tackled corruption "that was so endemic in this area."

Column: Former Chicago FBI chief questions whether local prosecutors have the ‘will’ to take on Illinois corruption

November 20, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

An email just came to me from some Illinois "good government" group asking that I participate in a survey. I hate surveys and never participate in them. You never know...

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks as former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testifies before the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 15, 2019. At left is Daniel Goldman, director of investigations for the Democrats on the committee, and at right is ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

Column: Adam Schiff plays the hero in Trump Impeachment Theater farce

November 17, 2019 at 6:08 p.m.

California Democrat Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, has been in his glory in running the Trump impeachment hearings, with the TV spotlight upon him and his allies in...

Daily Northwestern staffers talk while working on the paper at Northwestern University in Evanston on Nov. 12.

Column: Northwestern University, the cancel culture and ‘Whatsoever things are true’

November 15, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Northwestern University students are still being criticized by woke and unwoke scolds young and old, many of them working journalists, for how the student-run newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, shamed itself...

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan walks through the Illinois State Capitol on Nov. 12, 2019.

Column: Michael Madigan, federal wiretaps and that big federal bus

November 14, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

All politics is local, and in historically corrupt Illinois the politics are white-hot, now that the baiduhai broke the story that federal investigators tapped the phone of Boss Madigan's...

Lucy, a rescue horse at the Hooved Animal Rescue & Protection Society in Barrington Hills, sports a snowy nose while outside in 2016.

Column: Riding a good horse in the snow

November 12, 2019 at 2:45 p.m.

Just about the time my wiper blade broke off in the snow on Ogden Avenue near Western — where the crazy panhandler in the wheelchair rolls through traffic to collect...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff talks to reporters during a break in closed-door proceedings at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 6, 2019.

Column: The ‘Whistleblower’ and Rep. Adam Schiff should be first to testify in Trump Impeachment Theater

November 8, 2019 at 8:17 p.m.

As House Democrats begin the public phase of their impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump this week — over a presidential phone call to Ukraine — I'm forced to use...

That first cup of coffee at a diner is always the best.

Column: A day in the diner, and the stories that count

November 8, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Some days life is a diner, like the one I've been writing in lately, typing away at a corner table, waitresses bringing coffee. Through the window, November skies. And inside,...

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Sept. 27, 2018.

Column: Jeffrey Epstein and Brett Kavanaugh, for ABC News, a tale of double standards

November 7, 2019 at 9:55 a.m.

Before we get into the release by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas of that video starring "Good Morning America" co-host Amy Robach and her story that ABC spiked her report about...

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