Rex W. Huppke – Page 13

President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center on March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh.

Column: Biden tackles infrastructure while Republicans put performative outrage over ideas

April 2, 2021 at 3:31 p.m.

As President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping, $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, Republican lawmakers detailed their party's own carefully thought-out counter-plan, which consists of one word: No. The GOP might consider...

Column: Daily Herald exec who died saving kids in rip current showed the importance of doing the right thing

April 1, 2021 at 12:14 p.m.

Let's take a break from scrutinizing people doing the wrong thing and focus on someone who did the right thing. His name was Peter Rosengren. He died Sunday saving kids...

President Joe Biden smiles during the first news conference of his presidency in the East Room of the White House on March 25, 2021, in Washington.

Column: Biden refuses to play into the Fox News narrative, and it’s making me and Sean Hannity FURIOUS!

March 26, 2021 at 9:43 a.m.

As a loyal Fox News viewer, I am disgusted by President Joe Biden's stubborn and un-American refusal to behave in a way that matches the narrative I have been receiving....

Column: COVID-19 vaccinations are everyone’s chance to do something good. And get sculpted abs!

March 25, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I have received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and so far I feel fantastic and jfsgfdsnlsfnaldda,wnww,,fz..... KIDDING! I feel great, and I'm begging and pleading — I'm also...

A migrant child looks through the U.S.-Mexico border wall as a group is processed and taken into custody while trying to sneak across the border March 21, 2021, in Abram-Perezville, Texas.

Column: Biden’s Border Crisis is predictable right-wing babble, a curtain that covers human suffering

March 11, 2024 at 1:46 p.m.

Depending on your political leaning and what television station you watch, the current situation at the U.S. border with Mexico is either an all-caps "CRISIS!" or an all-lowercase "crisis." Given...

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton warms up before a game against the Arizona Cardinals at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 19, 2020.

Column: Dear new Bears quarterback Andy Dalton: Welcome to Chicago, despite the frosty reception.

March 19, 2021 at 11:26 a.m.

Dear new Bears quarterback Andy Dalton: Hey, man. I know you're not hearing a lot of this at the moment, so I want to be one of the first —...

Nancy Riley-James, 42, reacts at the makeshift memorial outside Gold Spa near Acworth, Georgia, on March 18, 2021, one of three businesses where eight people were killed and another injured by a gunman Tuesday.

Column: Atlanta shooting suspect’s ‘bad day’ and the whitewashing of white crime

March 17, 2021 at 6:31 p.m.

The 21-year-old white man who went on a shooting spree at several Georgia spas, killing eight people, including six Asian women, was having a bad day, you see. I know...

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., steps into an elevator at the U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2021.

Column: Sen. Ron Johnson is afraid of people who don’t look like Sen. Ron Johnson. That makes me afraid of him.

March 16, 2021 at 5:09 a.m.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is frightened by people who don't look like U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. People who look like Johnson are fine. They're all good...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris smile after Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House on March 11, 2021.

Column: Biden signs popular American Rescue Plan, making GOP look bad. That’s cancel culture!

March 12, 2021 at 7:47 p.m.

President Joe Biden has signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, guaranteeing that struggling Americans will receive swift financial help and states will have the resources to administer coronavirus vaccines...

People walk by a Lego store display showing models of Trump Tower inside Water Tower Place on Michigan Avenue on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: A Target on the Magnificent Mile? How embarrassing. What’s next? Tourists?!?

March 10, 2021 at 10:23 a.m.

As you have likely heard, we in the upper crust of Chicago society are perturbed — PERTURBED, I TELL YOU! — by news that a retail store known as "Target"...

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