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An Easy One Dies in the Big Easy Jan. 03, 2025
NEW ORLEANS QUESTION: What did you do for those beads? ANSWER: I got run over by a truck and now I'm... Read More
How Can We Stop the Killing? May. 25, 2023
WASHINGTON — Do you know that this country was once derided as being the most prudish of all t... Read More
More Presidential Killings Jan. 27, 2022
Secretly and quietly, the Biden administration has continued to use the killing machine crafted by P... Read More
The Perils of Ingratitude -- A Thanksgiving Admonition Nov. 22, 2018
Thanksgiving, America's homegrown national holiday, stands out for honoring the precious native peop... Read More
'This Is Our lane.' Doctors School the NRA on America's Gun-Violence Epidemic. Nov. 19, 2018
More than 30,000 Americans are killed by firearms annually, far more than in any other industrialize... Read More
The 'Great War' and Those That Followed Nov. 14, 2018
This past Sunday morning in France — at precisely 11 a.m. — the world marked exactly 100... Read More
'Making a Murderer: Part 2,' A Post-Conviction Master Class Nov. 14, 2018
Undoing wrongful convictions takes a killer instinct. Chicago-based exoneration specialist Kathleen ... Read More
Demand Action to Stop Deadly Shootings Nov. 13, 2018
Our country can't continue like this. The past few weeks feel like the United States has hit a new l... Read More
Past Versus Present Americans Jun. 06, 2018
Having enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years... Read More
What if Liberty Is Attached to Humanity? Oct. 20, 2016
What if the Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to protect our natu... Read More
Racist Silence Binds Chicago and Israel in Killing of Teenagers Dec. 03, 2015
There are many similarities in the killing of Black teenagers by police on American streets, and the... Read More
The Fatal Desk Chair Oct. 15, 2015
You're still alive? What a relief! As I'm sure you remember, last week's column listed a few of the... Read More
The Tyranny of One Man's Opinion Apr. 30, 2015
Thomas Cromwell was the principal behind-the-scenes fixer for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. ... Read More
Bad Reporting and the Differences Between Massacres by Israel and ISIS Aug. 14, 2014
In Gaza, the oppressor is Israel, which is an ally of the United States and a favorite of the news m... Read More
The Sad Politics of Killing Children Jul. 24, 2014
When the United States began condemning Russia for downing the Malaysian Airline and killing 298 civ... Read More
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Apr. 23, 2014
