Sitemap - 2007 - The Barbershop: Dennis Byrne, Proprietor

Iowa cornfields fuel folly of presidential hurdles

The Exaggerated Death of Newspapers

The true meaning of Christmas--hope and love

The costly lunacy of Block 37/CTA express rail service to O’Hare and Midway Airports

Then again, perhaps BP's refinery plans aren't so bad

The Des Moines Register’s flop GOP debate

Credentials, not color

We've Gone Too Far With Focus on Religion

Kids thinking they can be president is okay; but wanting to be president isn’t.

Why isn't this study about the pill and breast cancer heeded?

Chastity? Icky!

Another stunning advance achieved by non-embryonic stem cells

Henry Hyde's finest hour

Is the recession here yet?

Is it possible for the CTA to operate without a loss, no taxpayer subsidy required?

No guts in Springfield, no transit fix

Ex-Sunni insurgent becomes U.S. ally

Mayor Daley as Business Leader

Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos

New York state of mind

Why Can’t Jonathan Succeed?

Silence isn't prayer

Step forward, be a community

Get off that bus, into telework

This Just In: Boys and Girls are different!

New reason to hate Bush: FEMA "fakes" a press conference

Fan Dumb

In public interest, name cop, accuser

Recall (read: can) Blagojevich, Stroger and Daley

Snubbing cancer study will only hurt women

Do they really think voters are that dumb?

A cheapened Nobel

The Katrina of Marathons

Parents' input--not book--gets banned

Abortion protesters file libel suit against Planned Parenthood

A New 'Ground Zero' in the Abortion Wars

Planned Parenthood applies with lies

How do You Make Americans Sign up For Universal Health Insurance?

Alliance for the Great Lakes as absolutists

Free, clear, endangered by our mayor

They Shudda Let CTA Doomsday Happen

What is Pork to Blago?

'Chicago Way' is no way to run mass-transit system

PGA to Chicago: Drop Dead!

Craig the villain, not cop

The light goes on in GOP HD

Thompson's Bold Vision

Plenty of Road Rage for All

Rahm Emanuel loves his earmarks -- enough to admit it in the New York Times

An inane idea in any language

BP: No increased lake discharges

Hastert to resign early?

Bush Did It

Climate's impact on human migration

Two-Team Town

Boneheaded BP Sun-Times boycott

Karl Rove for anchor

“Deported immigration activist Elvira Arellano”

Filtering the facts from the fallacies of BP controversy

Nothing happened in Iowa

Correction: Obama meant that he'd only drop by Pakistan

Illinois politics a smear on Obama resume

Did Durbin Break Senate Ethics Rules in Kos Video?

The Leftwing Circus Comes to Town

Such a deal for transit riders

When fear (about everything) lurks around every corner

"Is 61 years in prison enough retribution?"

Politicians mucking up arguments

Chicago Proposes 401(k) Accounts for Transit Workers

More subsidies for the wealthy

Benchmarking the Iraq war

Sex abuse victims get shafted again

It's the ideology, stupid

Divisive diversity

The South Side Sun-Times?

The Farm Bill Cometh

Chicago jury convicts a British lord

Judging Amy

Middle America doing us proud

Very latest round of cliches places thinking at risk

Excuse me?

Brain drain of prosecutors in Cook County

Revisiting Brown Using Common Sense

Waxman’s truth

Children at glorious play

Who's the meanest of them all?

Who's Todd Stroger?

City congestion takes toll on common sense

The Do It Yourself Sopranos

No place for politics in stem cell science

Scary thought: Al Gore could be in charge

When is opinion actually grounds for a hate crime?

Chicago Secretly Plans to Sell Assets to Fund 2016 Summer Olympics

Saying 'no' in U.S. has political price

Papers were victim, not his lordship

Oath upheld, but at what cost?

Outrage misplaced over phony-ID raid

Court ruling abets life, logic

What Good Could Come From Airing the VT Killer's Video?

Blame Rumsfeld for the VTU massacre

Can you read this?

Don't cut parents out of classrooms

And now, good news from Iraq

Let parents rule on kids' issues

Free Speech and the Right to Disagree

Games plan tough to follow

Handgun bans' logic got shot full of holes

Moral musings instead of fiscal management

Fix Bad Government with More Government?

Is Obama Black Enough?

Transit `reform,' yet again

Hollywood in Fantasyland

They would be creamed

Mayor-for-life reigns in a faux democracy

Health-care check, please

Congress to launch a hot air resolution

Bad Research, Worse Reporting on Global Warming

Obama the Hack

Tug o' war and Constitution

Dems Should Dump Ethically Challenged Harry Reid

A super pioneer in own right

Bush's Iraq Strategy is More Than Just Escalation

Kick the habit, subsidy junkies

No more magic tricks

The escalating misuse of “escalate”

Iraq requires a military solution.

Terrorists don't deal in diplomacy

Truth, as mangled by Nancy Pelosi and Al Franken

Hate Mail

Barack Obama in Gerald Ford's Shadow

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