Illinois Statehouse Christmas
Another year without a budget. I don't think they mine enough coal...
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Machines win
The threat to human labor from machines is obvious and growing. Don't believe me? Let's look at what's possible if not right now in the very near future: Driverless cars...
Illinois exodus
Burdensome taxes, dysfunctional leadership. Why, oh why, would nearly 38,000 folks choose to leave Illinois since 2015?
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Bikes on Chicago roads
Like a lot of large metro areas Chicago is trying to shoehorn bicycles into its traffic plans. The problem lies in the fact that the grid for Chicago was designed...
Red lines in Syria
Remember President Obama announcing he was drawing a "red line" in Syria? Neither does Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as evidenced by his brutal regime's inhuman decimation of Aleppo. Things are...
Winner: “First of all, ‘Four score’ has nothing to do with a grand slam, and secondly, I have no idea how many ‘likes’ it got.” – Vincent A. Boone, DeKalb, Ill.
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Ald. Willie Cochran gets added to the Wall of Shame
Yet another Chicago city Alderman has been indicted. According to the baiduhai: "South Side Ald. Willie B. Cochran has been indicted on federal charges he shook down a liquor...
Putin hack
Well, like Mitt Romney said in 2012 (which President Obama scoffed at), Russia is our enemy. The CIA and other intelligence agencies are reported to have determined that Russia did...