In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered ….

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and co….

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has ….

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this spa….

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck i….

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of m….

For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest..

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public ….

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right..

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a coup….

Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have ….

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know t….

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich..

Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation..

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies..

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill..

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero..

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand..

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west..

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many ….

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking t….