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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Flashback 2010: Why were bombs sent to synagogues in Chicago?

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Synagogue in Buenos Aires       Anti-Semitism waxes and wanes, and if I seem nonchalant about it surging lately, that's because, in my v...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

You can't have our freedom; we're using it.

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Danish crown, Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen        I grew up in an era of protest. People taking to the streets. First for civil rights, then...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

A parade for Trump, but the true patriots will be in the streets

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       I love a parade. Give me a crisply uniformed high school marching band, tall hats smartly strapped under chins, horns held high, play...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

"No king he"

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                 The Washington Post did a poll this week , asking 1,000 Americans whether it is a good idea for the president to send the ...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Park district shuns an anti-hate ad — and ketchup on hot dogs

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     Regular readers know that I belong to a widely reviled minority; contempt is increasingly heaped upon us without letup or shame.      I...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The plan is working, so far...

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  "Bust of the Collector," by Damien Hirst       Not to try to find any kind of silver lining in our nation's collective stagg...
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Monday, June 9, 2025

Joe's Folly? Ted Lasso has some insight into proposed South Loop soccer stadium

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       Old habits die hard.      When I read in the Sun-Times that Joe Mansueto has agreed to personally finance construction of a 22,000-s...
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