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Activist, leisure class rallies against Trump
Jeffrey Blehar of National Review Online analyzes the No Kings Day rally in Chicago. This weekend, on a cold autumn Saturday, my city returned once again to its protest roots,…
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baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Elections & Public Integrity
Conservatives can help liberals learn to accept Trump
Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist website explains how conservatives can help their liberal counterparts come to terms with the reality of a Donald Trump presidency. Folks on the Right, regardless…
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Twitter and the future of presidential biographies
Tevi Troy explains in a New York Observer column why Twitter, despite its limitations, might prove valuable for future presidential biographers. President Obama recently joined Twitter, and his feed is…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, March 25, 2014
Your humble correspondent is a bit under the weather, so my apologies for the late post. • A coalition of D.C. environmental heavyweights plans to spend $5 million supporting the…
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Evil corruption or just “A good, old-fashioned, crook?
Jonah Goldberg provides this analysis of the Blagojevich affair on National Review Online’s The Corner. The Blithesome Banality of Blago’s Blunders The word “evil” has been used twice today…
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RE: Race-baiting
I’m confused. Is he saying that Barack Obama would be a great hitter if he were given the opportunity? Are there no batting cages or little leagues in Chicago? This…
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Baseball beef
My favorite pro baseball team after the Tigers is the Chicago Cubs and I hope they can make the playoffs, but they don’t deserve to. MLB should just move the…
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Is it really nostalgia?
George Will and John Hood both complain about nostalgia as a basis for policy-making and base their columns on farms this week. I think Hood’s argument against the family farm…
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The Grand Old Days of Sportswriting
The Boston Red Sox visit the Chicago Cubs this weekend, which gave the New York Times an excuse to discuss what had been until a year ago, the biggest rivalry…
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Re: Tagging…Baseball
Donna, it’s understandable that you, as a female, would have the perspective that emphasizes your relationship with a father that brainwashed you into supporting the Reds, especially in 1975: Of…
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‘What Took You So Long?’
THE PRESIDENT: Please be seated, unless you don’t have a chair. (Laughter.) So, like, what took you so long? (Laughter.) Welcome. And welcome to the citizens of the Red Sox…
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He Loves His Sox
Last year at this time, Paul Chesser was commiserating about his beloved but cursed Boston Red Sox on WPTF’s “The Jerry Agar Show,” alongside a diehard Cubs fan that knew…