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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Retirement doesn't mean veterans stop helping their comrades or their country

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  Brig. Gen. Thomas Kittler, U.S. Air Force (retired).      Soldiers. Sailors. Marines. Each Nov. 11, when Veterans Day rolls around, crews ...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

"Always happy to save a reporter's ass"

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A Vanitas Still Life, by Pieter Claesz (Franz Hals Museum)      Sixty-five is not 57. That's for sure. While living through my 50s I fe...
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Works in progress: Donald Colley — 'Honesty should guide the pen'

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     Usually I run "Works in progress" on Saturdays, such as Lane Lubell's well-received post yesterday. But this week I got ...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Works in progress: Lane Lubell — The Intervention of Dictionary.com

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     EGD is interested in many things —politics, culture, products, birds. Words themselves merit special attention. Today we welcome a gues...
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Friday, November 7, 2025

Government makes the planes fly on time, and much more

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia      The American Taxi was waiting outside at 4:15 a.m. It zipped us to O'Hare in 25 ...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Mailbag

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     Lots of email about yesterday's column on Gov. JB Pritzker unleashing an f-bomb on the president. I tried to answer each one intell...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

JB Pritzker says what the Sun-Times can't

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       One of the countless anecdotes regarding my hero, Samuel Johnson, is about a lady complimenting him for leaving out "bad, low an...
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