Column: Weaponizing the dead of El Paso and Dayton
Those angry loner white boys with guns, this time in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have again erupted on the body politic. And those with eyes to see are...
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Column: Foolish tomato gardener, a Ricketts, Fire GM vie for Golden Moutza of July
Can a man freeze to death on a warm summer day, with his loyal Wonder Dog Zeus at his feet, while gazing out at a patch of sod that had...
Column: Democratic debates reveal party predicament: ‘Save us, Michelle Obama, you’re our only hope’
The Socialist Democratic Party presidential candidates debates in Detroit were somewhat painful to watch, but fun. At least I had fun, when I wasn't stabbing myself in the eye with...
Column: Be like the Dutch — drop your kids off alone in the forest and drink tiny beers
Though we've raised two sons, the last thing Betty wants me to do is to offer unsolicited advice to parents on how to bring up their own children. Giving parental...
Column: Latest college scandal is another canary in the coal mine
Pssst, don't tell the president, but Baltimore isn't really the rat capital of America. That honor belongs to Chicago. Chicago Democrats would love it if he turned his brutal Twitter...
Column: A hateful green patch of sod where my tomatoes once grew
I'm not in the habit of using my column to publicly mock Tribune readers who may disagree with my views. Readers are our customers. And our customers feed our families...
Column: Law firms should ‘Step Up for Chicago’ in the Jussie Smollett/Kim Foxx case
I was hungry for a good Jussie Smollett/Kim Foxx news fix, to remind me about the wonders of blind justice in Cook County. But what the celebrity media has been...
Column: Democrats suffer anxiety attacks over Robert Mueller testimony, and blame him rather than themselves
There must have been a point in the Robert Mueller hearings when the big thinkers of CNN and MSNBC curled up on the floor in fetal positions and began breathing...
Column: The race card slowly loses its sting through overuse as we head toward 2020
Some 60 million voters who cast ballots for President Donald Trump in 2016 are once again being kicked to the margins of society and shamed as racists, all because of...
Column: Illinois after Boss Mike Madigan? Like Yugoslavia after Tito
What happens when Boss Mike Madigan is no longer around to hold the fiscally broken state of Illinois in the palms of his tiny pink hands? Think of Yugoslavia after...