R. Bruce Dold

I hope George Ryan got a jolt this week. He has been waiting a long time to be governor of Illinois. But he's been campaigning like he thinks voters have...

I was watching TV news the other night when an ad came on for Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun. It ripped Republican Peter Fitzgerald because he wants to let your Aunt Mary...

I don't know if Ken Starr is a country music fan, but I'll bet somewhere along the way he's heard the lyric: "What part of `no' don't you understand?" Starr,...

The lesson today, boys and girls, is never say anything nice about a politician. Somebody will try to prove you wrong. Four weeks ago I wrote that Rep. Henry Hyde...

"We can try to escape the consequences of being called a tax-and-spender--if we're not interested in doing the right thing by all of our children." Noble words from Glenn Poshard,...

Howard Stern on TV, I can deal with that. I can even deal with Linda Tripp on TV. There are just two people on TV who make me lunge for...

Hello, John Stroger. You're in deep trouble. The affable president of the Cook County Board is in real danger of losing the second most powerful job in local government, a...

There is supposedly a wide gulf between the news pundits and everyone else over President Clinton. The pundits were outraged over the president's handling of his talk to the nation...

On his first morning as president of the United States, Gerald Ford greeted the nation in his baby blue Bermuda pajamas and revealed that he had just toasted his own...

Richard Daley is no Alan Greenspan, which is a relief. If the markets listened to the mayor the way they listen to the chairman of the Federal Reserve, they would...