Recent Comments

1. about 24 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   Please. There’s a group of “law & order” bloggers & social media influencers who make no secret of their politics. They hate Johnson & Pritzker. Whoever runs the HeyJack*** site is one of them. Second City Cop is mostly one guy. Probably Catanzara, based on his opposition to even the least civilian oversight of CPD.

2. about 24 hours ago on Brian McFadden

   I’m not confused about the double standard used when covering the student campers vs the truck convoys. I just don’t know what Salvation Army Santas have to do with it.

3. 1 day ago on Nick Anderson

   Lol, you can’t keep track of your own posts. Here’s what you said about crime:

   “The dimwit mayor of Chicago is already running a city that has insane crime, an emptying main downtown, and a whole lot of murders.”

   If you don’t like living in cities, no one cares. It’s a huge country. Nothing wrong with living in Rabbitville, IN. It’s obvious your idea of what Chicago is like comes from politically motivated sources.

   I suspect by late August, the Gaza War will be over, the student protestors will have fizzled out & a few hundred people who embrace protest as a lifestyle will fail to provoke a massive overreaction from cops.

4. 2 days ago on Ted Rall

   Before 10/7, Netanyahu was secure until 2026. His controversial judicial reforms weren’t a factor in Hamas’ plans, but normalization with KSA was.

   After 10/7, Bibi took the only choice that let him stay in power.

5. 2 days ago on Brian McFadden

   I don’t know how old you are, but I remember Salvation Army Santas standing outside stores in the 1970s. I also remember them standing outside stores in 2023. KMart bought Sears 20 years ago. Both are gone, but I still have a Craftsman drill I bought in the 1990s.

   Not sure what this has to do with student protests at private Ivy League colleges. There is no 1st Amendment right to pitch tents on the Columbia lawn. But, it’s an Ivy League in Manhattan, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why media are obsessed.

   So far, the public universities in red states seem to be where cops are being deployed in a hardline stance against protest, which seems far more concerning.

6. 2 days ago on Gary Varvel

   Resorting to pure fiction, since Trump’s real issues are a ticking time bo

7. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Funny you bring up the extremely right leaning website tracking gun deaths & injuries in Chicago, that’s showing a trend back towards the pre-Trump levels. Trump makes people angry. Trump makes people violent on both sides. I can do without that kind of bipartisanship.

8. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   (running-goalposts-dot-gif)

9. 3 days ago on Nick Anderson

   I can tell you don’t live in Chicago & haven’t set foot in the city limits since the 90s, at least. Crime is down for the 3rd year in a row, with the murder rate going back to pre-Trump levels.

   Office vacancy rates ar around 15%, partly because the pandemic had a lasting change in remote work & partly because developers added a ton of office space in the last 5 years.

   The Gaza War will be over by August, taking a lot of gas out of any attempt to get large numbers of normal people out to protest.

10. 3 days ago on Ted Rall

    There’s video of pro-Israel students yelling smears at protesters. I’d chalk it up to immature people being immature people.