Everywhere we turn, the country looks as though it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn…
We shouldn’t be in a situation where suburban, exurban, and rural conservatives laugh with schadenfreude over the pain and tragedy that blue cities are inflicting on their own people. We shouldn’t be in that situation, but we are. And while…
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the late 1960s, Gene Siskel was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert a young reporter at the…
The other day at a friends-of-the library, used-book sale, I picked up a copy of Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. The author recounts a month’s worth of experience in Maine, doing time as a substitute teacher with…
Most businesses have to make a profit to stay open — but not the government. While big grocery stores like Walmart and Whole Foods leave crime-ridden Chicago, Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson remains convinced that the solution to “food deserts” in…
Obviously the group calling itself the communist “Revolution Club Chicago” thinks the American people are stupid. Here is the New York Post headline about the group’s recent appearance at a parking lot at a Jason Aldean concert: Communist revolutionaries set…
Chicago has decided that the best way to stop car theft and the resulting downstream crime is to sue the manufacturers of the cars most likely to be stolen, namely, those from Kia and Hyundai. (A true Pinky and the…
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law allowing foreigners with work permits to become law enforcement — and arrest U.S. citizens. Foreigners without work permits are not eligible to join the police force. Illinois House Bill 3751 states: …
While local and national media outlets frequently report on food deserts, particularly in cities that lack sufficient grocery stores, there is one major shortage that goes largely unnoticed by the press: pharmacies. “Pharmacy deserts” pose a real threat, particularly for…
Khartoum is wracked by violence, and my mind goes back over two decades to a couple of trips I took to that city, which is positioned dramatically at the confluence of the muddy White Nile and the dark Blue Nile….