Category: Commentary

John Whitehead

An alphabet of tyranny by any name you choose to give it

What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly-contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting, and disingenuous curtain of political theater. What political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Played out

Charles Coddintgon

Land-grabs relevant throughout history, home included

Our accidental president, Donald Trump, just cannot do enough nice things for his best buddy, Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. After transferring the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, he recognizes the Golan Heights as “Israeli territory,” territory which the Israelis “liberated” from Syria during the Six Days War in 1967. This

Aurora mayor Richard C. Irvin

Aurora mayor opposes move of convicted murderer to Wayside Cross Ministries in downtown Aurora

A risk the people of Aurora should not have to to take: By Richard C. Irvin, mayor, Aurora, Ill. After a nearly a week of news reports that convicted-murderer Thomas Kokoraleis would reside in nearby Wheaton following his release from custody, Aurora was blindsided over the weekend, March 30-31, when