Or, if this were Don Adams on “Get Smart,” “he missed it by THAT much.” I have hardly ever agreed with Illinois congressman Bobby Rush, even when I lived in his district. While I admit to giving him much respect for having gone from being a Black Panther to Congress, he usually is too wild […]

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After tip-toeing around the subject for months, NCAA President Mark Emmert is backing a proposal to allow conferences to increase grants to student athletes by $2,000, “to more closely approach” the full cost of attending college, beyond the athletic scholarships athletes receive for tuition, fees, room, board and books. Emmert told the Knight Commission on […]

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• Despite having a sour old man like Nolan Ryan running the team, it’s hard not to root for the Texas Rangers in the World Series. Of course, the franchise has never won a World Series, and they have a lot of good young, compelling players. Plus, they are playing the St. Louis Cardinals, who […]

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“Yes he’s free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City; And he’s free to be put in a cage on the South Side of Chicago; And the West Side; And he’s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland; And he’s free to be put in a […]

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I find it amusing that the same politicians who were sucking up to the Tea Party are “shocked” at the current “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Protests began on Wall Street to protest the disconnect between the investment world and the real world, and those protests have grown out of New York and taken hold throughout […]

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Canadians are mellow – much mellower than Americans. They are more civilized, I think, and I’m not saying so just because I married a Canadian. Why else would they have more guns per capita than the U.S. but far fewer gun crimes and murders that we that live South? However, the line is drawn when […]

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The talk of Chicago is the excerpt of the upcoming book “Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton,” written by Jeff Pearlman, in the current edition of Sports Illustrated. The late running back has been almost deified around here; tough, playful, hard-working, everything a football player should be. What is causing all of the ink […]

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