Mike Royko

My guess is that Ted Koppel hasn`t enjoyed reading his mail the past few days. Not unless he enjoys being called foul names and accused of being a fawning liberal...

He came within a split second and a few feet of croaking at an early age. And the last thing he would have seen before the undertaker got him was...

Now we`re going to see if the Weekend Yawn Rule applies to the Los Angeles riot story. The Weekend Yawn Rule was something an oldtime news editor once passed on...

When the news becomes too grim and depressing, as it is now, and public voices are quivering with gloom and doom, I look for a haven of harmless nuttiness. I...

Looking back on Selma, Ala., in 1965, I`m trying to remember how many liberals I saw smashing the heads of peaceful civil rights marchers. I can`t remember a single one....

''Now we`re gonna get a healing process, huh?'' said Slats Grobnik. ''That sounds nice, but I don`t know what it means. Are they going to hand out free Band-Aids in...

Thank goodness for the many experts who are explaining why Los Angeles exploded into violence. Without this enlightenment, we might have thought that a lot of gangbangers, thugs, thieves and...

''Everybody on TV keeps telling me to believe my eyes,'' Slats Grobnik said. ''OK, I got good vision. And I seen those cops whack this Rodney guy 59 times. So...

That jury in Los Angeles didn`t do policemen any favor with their not-guilty verdict in the Rodney King case. Not for the cops who have to go into the toughest...