By John & Nisha Whitehead President Donald Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital dictatorship armed with algorithms and powered by unaccountable, all-seeing artificial intelligence. This
May 29, 2025Dear editor; In the May 22, 2025 issue of “The Voice,” Charles Coddington asserted, for what I believe is third time in his column, the largely discredited hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from Biblical Israelites, but rather from Khazars who converted to the religion of Judaism
May 27, 2025Dear editor; I puzzle as to how in our society of presumably evolved individuals, we can allow the most ignorant and self-consumed among us to impose their will upon the most brilliant and inspirationally creative among us. Our dedicated scientific and medical researchers and our supremely-talented artists from
May 27, 2025Dear editor; This Memorial Day I want to thank all the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice. With the Donald Trump administration’s painful actions affecting most Americans, and especially our military veterans, the best way to express my thanks during Military Appreciation Month is to
May 20, 2025Dear editor; As a veteran of the Chicago Police Department, having dedicated decades of my life to fighting violent crime and protecting our communities, I fully support House Bill 2634 that is not just a step forward, but is an urgent necessity to combat the escalating threat posed
I hope you all had a nice Memorial Day weekend. I had about 10 pounds of celebration in a five-pound treat cup with our granddaughter’s graduation and dinner afterwards, my birthday recognition and celebration (being in a totaled car wreck and sent to the ER to remain indefinitely on life
By Ahmadou Dramé The state of Illinois has a duty to deliver public safety to all residents in a manner that is fiscally responsible, equitable and effective. An analysis of current government spending, however, raises concerns whether policymakers and elected officials are meeting their responsibilities. State and local governments in
By John & Nisha Whitehead Few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on government power than Donald Trump—if only because he tramples on them so frequently. Indeed, president Trump has become a walking civics lesson. Consider some
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter seven). He has: Revoked the protections of immigrants who had entered the United States through the CFB program and “urged” them to “self-deport” themselves or risk being permanently banned and cancelled the Temporary Protected Status extensions for various national groups; Signed an
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Donald Trump’s “Make Business not War” tour through the Middle East will be remembered for decades to come, as an historic success by any standard unless we consider the deranged positions of Democrats and some contributors in this publication. I speak of John Whitehead, “Wayne’s World”
By John & Nisha Whitehead Few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on government power than Donald Trump—if only because he tramples on them so frequently. Indeed, president Trump has become a walking civics lesson. Consider some
May 10, 2025Dear editor; “And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide?” This is one of the famous quotes from the classic play by Robert Bolt, “A Man for All Seasons.” The quote is relevant to something Bela “Bill” Suhayda
May 9, 2025Dear editor; As I watch the making of a new Pope unfold, I keep wondering what Jesus Christ would say if he were here today. One might assume he would adamantly condemn the adulations being paid to the rock he built his church upon while more than 700
May 11, 2025Dear editor; Dems have to fight back in order to keep our country. The other guys have been destroying unions that built the middle class and increasing economic inequality ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). FDR got us out of the depression with public works initiatives putting Americans
Did you happen to notice the white smoke wafting out of this page as you opened The Voice today? Hard to believe it, but we finally have an American Pope, and from Chicago no less. For the previous week or so it was so nice for the focus of the
By John & Nisha Whitehead “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns. Let’s not mince words: President Donald Trump’s
April 29, 2025Dear editor; Under the guise of a conveniently focused concern for antisemitism on our nation’s college campuses, the Donald Trump administration is attempting to impose its own political views and distorted realities on what has been for centuries the bastion of free thinking and independent research, our academic
May 1, 2025Dear editor; The Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” was signed March 27, targeting the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) for promoting an alleged “improper ideology.” This order threatens not only the ability of institutions to engage with the
By John & Nisha Whitehead “One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761 What the Founders rebelled against—armed government agents invading homes without cause—we are now being
I don’t know about you, but when I heard Donald Trump say he would make our country safe again, I felt a wave of comfort wash over me. For too long we’d been under threat from library books, institutes of higher learning, DEI, and the scourge of body order. So
