Jon Margolis

Not long after most of us had managed to forget the Super Bowl, not a difficult task this year, there were the Dallas Cowboys again. This time they wore suits...

There are only two things wrong with a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. The first is a constitutional amendment. The second is a balanced budget. In plain if not...

Okay, as outrages go, this one will not shake the pillars of Western Civilization. Still, an outrage is an outrage, and we have one, right here in Illinois. As are...

In the 1976 re-issue of George B. Galloway's 1962 "History of the House of Representatives" are the pictures of 36 of the men who served in the House, from the...

The economy is getting better. You want to know why? Because taxes went up. In the words of the great philosopher C.D. Stengel, you could look it up. The extra...

Ah, the power of the press. After weeks of speculation in print and over the air about whether President Clinton was and/or is a conniving land developer, the crony of...

To the interesting question posed last week-is Bobby Ray Inman wacky or is Washington really that bad? Here is the answer: Yes. Or, life being too complex to be summed...

Deservedly, or at least deservedly enough, liberalism has lost status among the trend-setting set, a victim of its tangents and excesses. Unhappily, its replacements are no more impressive. There is...

Like so much else these days, wrong-doing depends on publicity. Villainy becomes scandal only if someone notices it, which depends on location, category and luck. Somehow, starvation, murder and tyrrany...

So Congress finally passes a gun control bill. Shortly thereafter the president who supported it goes hunting. In a sane world, this would be unremarkable. There is no logical reason...