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Illinois' Approach to Legalizing Marijuana Strikes the Right Balance Jun. 05, 2019
Illinois' newly approved plan to legalize recreational marijuana appears well thought out, with stri... Read More
Bullying and Coercion Never Works With Mexico. So Why Is Trump Trying It? Jun. 04, 2019
President Donald Trump's latest plan to stem migrant crossings at the southern border is to impose a... Read More
Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Mitch McConnell Jun. 03, 2019
With all the fake sincerity he could muster in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentu... Read More
What Happened to Bill Barr? Jun. 03, 2019
I knew him back when we were both law clerks fresh out of school — he for one of the most cons... Read More
Media Gloats About Censoring Opinions of 37% of Americans May. 31, 2019
Thirty-seven percent of American citizens are socialist or communist. That's far more people than vo... Read More
Double Standards Endanger Press Freedom: The Treatment of Bryan Carmody and Julian Assange Reveals Widespread Confusion About Who Counts As a Journalist and Whether It Matters May. 29, 2019
The day after the federal government indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 18 charges related... Read More
30 Years Later, the Tiananmen Tiger Still Stalks Communist China's Dragon May. 29, 2019
China's four-decade rise from hunger-plagued developing country to great power with global clout ran... Read More
Abortion: The People Are Catching On May. 21, 2019
So, when the U.S. Supreme Court numbered abortion among our precious constitutional rights, we expec... Read More
Once Upon a Time in America May. 16, 2019
There was a time in American history — nearly all of it up to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson... Read More
Trump's 'Infrastructure' Plan Versus Obama's 'Stimulus': Part II May. 16, 2019
My previous column objected to President Donald Trump and Sen. Chuck Schumer's, D-N.Y., proposed $2 ... Read More
Nipsey Hussle and the Opportunity Zone Dream May. 15, 2019
A basic law in physics says that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from ... Read More
Continuing Oversight Is Needed to Ensure Facebook Takes Privacy Seriously May. 14, 2019
Facebook's recent revelation that it expects to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commi... Read More
In Both Parties, Magical Thinking Prevails May. 11, 2019
In Washington, there are divisions between liberal precepts and conservative doctrine, Trumpism and ... Read More
Trump's 'Infrastructure' Plan Versus Obama's 'Stimulus': What's the Difference? May. 09, 2019
What's the difference between the $2 trillion "infrastructure" plan that Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,... Read More
Socialists Aren't as Cool as They Think May. 09, 2019
Nerds wear thick glasses and get good grades. They dream of being cool. Bullies torment them. Former... Read More
Let the Sunshine in at the Federal Reserve May. 07, 2019
I'm disappointed I had to withdraw from the nomination to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board b... Read More
Fighting Over the Body May. 03, 2019
Read about a lot of high-profile deaths and you find families fighting over the corpses. They've lon... Read More
We Need to Improve Our Financial Literacy May. 02, 2019
The economy continues to roar, and most Americans are keeping more of the money that they earn, but ... Read More
Folding Chair Politics Apr. 29, 2019
Someone who may not have spent enough time sitting on a folding chair at a school committee meeting ... Read More
America's Urgent Need for Baseball Today Apr. 27, 2019
In America today and in its capital city of Washington, D.C., we see, sadly, that with enough money ... Read More
