Nervous Nelly Dems and trash-talking Republicans try to scare voters away from single-payer health care.
Tag: Sarah Palin
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Stormy’s Chicago show to feature Rahm on stage—kinda
A guy in a Rahm mask will be cavorting with Stormy Daniels when she brings her “Make America Horny Again” tour to Chicago in June.
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Obama’s farewell speech vs. the salacious Trump memo: a tale of two Americas
While President Obama was making a high-minded appeal to our better angels, BuzzFeed was offering some sordid and sleazy allegations about Donald Trump.
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Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews
This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
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What is news, anyway? A new Pew study raises the question.
The Pew Research Center just released a new study on the news preferences of the American public. The findings make for unsurprising reading.
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Rauner wants to take over Chicago schools, University of Illinois trustees to vote on tuition freeze, and other Chicago news
Also, a “Resign Rahm” sign pops up in D.C., and a former DePaul student turned indie music publicist is accused of sexual harassment.
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Is the GOP really falling apart?
Gleeful hand-wringing over Republican dysfunction misses a crucial fact about the party.
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
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A president shall be forged in the loins of the nation’s breadbasket
. . . or whatever. On the fetishization of small-town life.
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Does Sarah Palin speak jive? and other bullshit concerns
The week in political grammar
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Apply now to Newt University
Offering a Bachelor of Conservative Arts program second to none
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Mea culpa time for Adam Dunn haters
All those who jeered the White Sox slugger should admit they were wrong
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Twitter and the Chicago Manual
Last night, Twitter was at the center of a celebration of the Chicago Manual of Style.
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In Rotation: Sound artist Olivia Block on Nollywood’s Beyonce
Plus: Reader critic Peter Margasak on saxophonist Colin Stetson, Joseph Clayton Mills of Haptic on the return of Jeff Mangum, and more