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“Only A Suggestion”: Joe Ricketts Demands Massive Taxpayer Subsidies For...
This week, the New York Times reported that Joe Ricketts, a right-wing billionaire and founder of TD Ameritrade, is soliciting multi-million dollar ad proposals to attack President Obama. One such...
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“Standing Up For Teachers”: Collective Bargaining Is Not The Problem
Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them. It has become fashionable to blame all of society’s manifold sins and wickedness on “teachers unions,” as if it were possible...
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“Even If He Wins, He Loses”: For Rush Limbaugh, The Damage Is Already Done
One week after it was first reported that talk radio giant Cumulus Media might cut ties with Rush Limbaugh and pull his show from 40 of its stations nationwide, the end result of the contractual...
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“Correlation Does Not Imply Causation”: The Myth Of Murderous Chicago, Neat,...
A neatly typed letter arrived at the office the other day. It included a check made out to the National Rifle Association, on my behalf. The reader, disgruntled by my call for reasonable gun control...
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“Growing Numb To Mass Violence”: We Need To End The Sound Of Silence In Congress
What if we had a mass shooting and nobody noticed? That gloomy thought came to mind as I listened to the unsettling sound of silence that followed the September 16 Navy Yard shooting in the nation’s...
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“African America Has Promises To Keep”: Sometimes, You Simply Have A Duty To...
We are gathered here today not to argue about some policy prescription, nor to excoriate some public figure. No, we are gathered because sometimes, you have no choice, sometimes, you simply have a duty...
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A ‘Kill-And-Cover-Up’ Police Culture?: Systemic And Institutional Problems...
When public officials refuse to release a video that shows alleged misconduct by a police officer, you should only expect the worst. That’s particularly true in Chicago, where one “bad apple” too often...
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