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President Donald Trump looks on as a White House aide takes away a microphone from CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 7, 2018.

Put on your big boy pants, Mr. President, and let CNN’s Jim Acosta do his job

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

I hate getting all emotional when writing a column, and if I wore pearls, I might clutch them in rage while denouncing the idiotic move by White House press secretary...

President Donald Trump speaks with CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta during a news conference on Nov. 7, 2018, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Americans need sunshine on Trump/Russia and the Clinton-funded dossier. Now.

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

After the midterm elections, Americans were still trying to see past the political spin to the serious implications of it all. Did the Democrats win a short-term victory by taking...

Chicago's City Hall on Sept. 4, 2018. Now that the midterm elections are over, the main event in Illinois politics begins in earnest: the race for mayor of Chicago.

The race for mayor and the $125,000 question for homeowners

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

Some suggest, with eager, childlike hope, that since Tuesday’s midterm elections are finally over, Wednesday will bring a time of much-needed peace and quiet. Peace and quiet? Really? Think again....

Rep. Dan Lipinski, shown greeting supporters on primary night in March 2018, runs against his party's grain as a moderate Democrat.

Searching for a moderate Democrat and bacon buns on Election Day

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Here’s what I did early Tuesday before working on my column and getting some bacon buns: I voted, writing in Friedrich Hayek for governor even though the brilliant economist and...

People vote on the last day of early voting at the Reynolds Club student center of University of Chicago on Nov. 2, 2018.

Last-minute thoughts on Election Day and those last-minute campaign leaks

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

I wonder if some reporter will get the oppo-research on the candidate and the baby sitter? Which candidate or party? Who knows? Does it matter? It could be anybody, here...

Moutza of the Month for October candidates are many, but in the end it's hard to compete with the California teenager who used her grandfather's ashes as an ingredient in a batch of cookies.

Teenage cookie cannibals: The Golden Moutza of October

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

“Times being what they are,” says Alberto Gonzalez, “I believe the Moutza of the Day would be more appropriate.” Indeed. A tweet by Tribune reporter John Byrne illustrates the point:...

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, right, of Tree of Life synagogue, hugs Rabbi Cheryl Klein, left, and Rabbi Jonathan Perlman during a community gathering Oct. 28, 2018, in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh.

As our politics get uglier, a lesson in decency from the doctors in Pittsburgh

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

In this most indecent time of political rage and politically weaponized tragedy, America desperately needed to see decent people do the decent thing: Like Dr. Jeffrey Cohen and other Jewish...

Then-NBC News anchor Megyn Kelly appears in Chicago's Millennium Park last year. She is being pushed out at NBC after her on-air "blackface" comments.

Maybe J.B. Pritzker should hire Megyn Kelly

May 31, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Here’s a political marriage made in heaven: Megyn Kelly and J.B. Pritzker. Kelly will need a job now. And J.B., the billionaire Democrat running for governor, faces a public relations...

Jowan Osterlund, of Bioxhax International, holds a microchip implant.

Swedish body hacking, a Halloween horror story

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

As Halloween approaches, Americans need a good horror story to get our minds off our politics. Why not look to Sweden, and the “silent concession culture” that will lead Europe,...

Officers watch over the scene outside the Time Warner Center on Oct. 24, 2018, in New York. Law enforcement officials say a suspicious package that prompted an evacuation of CNN's offices is believed to contain a pipe bomb.

Let’s not forget American liberty as we hunt down the package bomber

May 31, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

There is a proper American response to the pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats: Find who is responsible, send them to federal prison and throw away the key. Expose their...

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