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When It Comes To Education, Nobody Knows Nothing
I ask the Serras if there’s anything CPS could do to keep middle-class families. Sue says it should add more high schools with special programs for kids “who aren’t in the top 1 percent, but maybe...
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He Never Said “Rivers of Blood”
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of...
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Shameful
I recently read “What Went Wrong: The Collapse of the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process,” which appeared (behind a firewall) in Political Science Quarterly in the summer of 2001. (The essay is...
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Ron Unz is Silly
The notion of individuals and businesses carrying their own weight seems just as alien to the sort of present-day Republicans whose perspectives are welcome within the confines of the elite media. For...
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Neil Steinberg Just Writes Bad Columns
Were I to ask you what color seat you would like on your bus trip to Cleveland, you would probably reply, “But I’m not going to Cleveland.” Were I to insist, fanning a few fabric swatches before you —...
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Star Wars Reacts to Chicago!
Some reactions from a galaxy far, far away concerning Chicago getting the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Yoda: Lakefront in summer, beautiful it is; Norman Rockwell paintings are strong in the force as...
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Welcome to 2015
Dear faithful readers (all three of you — and I think you may all be spam bots), This blog has been dormant for the second half of 2014 and quite frankly wasn’t that active in the first half of 2014....
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Movies: I Saw A Few In 2014
Dear Netflix, Thanks for providing an excellent product/service. We just started using the streaming service in our house in 2014 and thanks to you I was able to catch up on a lot of Asian action films...
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Punk Rock Movie? More Like Off Key Death Metal
It seems presumptuous in mid-February to declare a movie one of the best of 2015, but “Kingsman: The Secret Service” is so entertaining, so fresh, and so fearless that it seems destined to outshine the...
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Answering Rex Huppke’s Question for Mundelein’s Mayor
Mundelein Mayor Steve Lentz believes America is in a moral crisis. He said so during a Fourth of July speech that wound up grabbing headlines, an address that veered from standard patriotic talk into...
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