Let’s talk about a weapon that has killed more than 1,000,000 Americans in the past quarter century and injured many millions more.
By proving minimal competence at wielding it, most Americans over...
It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from former President George W. Bush. To many of us, it’s a relief to finally be done with the man who entered the White House at the head of the world’s...
When it comes to presidents, there are few who I would rank below George W. Bush. From Iraq to the financial crash and everything in between, his presidency was largely a series of profound screw-ups that...
Sometime earlier this month we awoke to the news that one of the five Americans killed April 6 in Afghanistan was a 25-year-old woman, Anne Smedinghoff, from River Forest. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University,...
My younger brother once got mad at me, most likely for hogging the television, and bit me. I still vividly remember the teeth marks in my arm. It’s OK, though — I’m pretty sure I bit him back at...
