With Pope Leo XIV being from Chicago, everyone seems to have some sort of connection with him — even if it’s as simple as sharing a love for the White Sox or having played tennis on the same court as…
England’s King George III found out the hard way that the very genesis of the American ethos is running our own affairs liberated from bureaucratic control. The United States was born out of secession. Like in 1860, secession debates rage…
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court humbled public sector union officials accustomed to taking advantage of the public employees they were supposed to serve. In Janus v. AFSCME, the court overturned a decades-old precedent that once forced public employees to pay union dues…
I’m tired of hearing political pundits divide our Commonwealth into east and west, urban and rural. We are one Pennsylvania — united — and we will come together to tackle our greatest challenges. — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro A brief look…
Well of course. If there is anything Americans have learned over the last few years, it is that Democrats run around accusing Republicans and Trump supporters of being “anti-democracy” — but then go out of their way to shut down…
Whenever I ride that long, flat stretch of Illinois between Chicago and Davenport, I can’t help but think of Ronald Reagan and the time that he hitchhiked the highway now named for him. It was the fall of 1932, and…
The classroom was so packed that there was barely standing room. It was so popular that students not enrolled in the course and even enrolled in other schools came to hear it: the final lecture in the basic course on…
Last week, the Speaker of the Ohio House was arrested in a $60 million federal bribery case involving bailout money for the state’s two nuclear power plants. Speaker Larry Householder (R) received the money through anonymous donations over the past…
East Moline, Illinois We were drinking outside St. Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza when we heard the gunshots. Five of them, in rapid succession, about four blocks away. I was armed only with a cigarette, but Joe Schilling was packing real heat…
