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Gun Control, Chicago-Style

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head. The big story was that this powerful, well-connected public official had, according to the county medical ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Reason,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roland Burris,  Dorothy Tillman

Steve Chapman: Armed Pols: A Chicago Tradition

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head. The big story was that this powerful, well-connected public official had, according to the county medical ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Town Hall,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Chapman,  Michael Scott,  Roland Burris

Armed Pols: A Chicago tradition

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head. The big story was that this powerful, well-connected public official had, according to the county medical ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, The Orange County Register,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chicago Tribune,  Michael Scott,  Roland Burris,  Dorothy Tillman

Sarah Palin and the Decline of Conservatism

The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of evolution. The same could be said of the pantheon of conservative political heroes, ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ronald Reagan,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Henry Adams

Steve Chapman: Gay marriage opposition shrinks

Opponents of same-sex marriage waxed triumphant recently when voters in Maine rejected a measure allowing gays to wed. Maggie Gallagher, head of the National Organization for Marriage, crowed, "This victory in Maine interrupts the cultural narrative ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, The Orange County Register,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Chapman,  National Organization for Marriage,  Minnesota Vikings,  Qualcomm,  Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Gay Marriage Lost, But It's Not Losing

Opponents of same-sex marriage waxed triumphant recently when voters in Maine rejected a measure allowing gays to wed. Maggie Gallagher, head of the National Organization for Marriage, crowed, "This victory in Maine interrupts the cultural ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Reason,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Organization for Marriage,  Minnesota Vikings,  Qualcomm,  Death Cab for Cutie,  Pew Research Center

Steve Chapman: Hasan's views far outside American Muslims'

Mass murders are usually a mystery. When Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly committed one last week at Fort Hood, though, there was no time wasted in solving the mystery by blaming the massacre on his religion, which is Islam. Maybe Hasan is just a homicidal ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, The Orange County Register,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Chapman,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  The Pentagon,  US Department of Defense

Muslims and Mass Murder

"Does that sound like a lot? Keep in mind that 13 percent of Americans have a favorable view of North Korea. That's right: North Korea. " If you want to start discriminating against people who have a favorable view of North Korea, I am all for it. ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Reason,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pat Buchanan,  Pat Tillman,  Steve Chapman,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  The Pentagon

Steve Chapman: Muslims and Mass Murder

Mass murders are usually a mystery. When Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly committed one last week at Fort Hood, though, there was no time wasted in solving the mystery by blaming the massacre on his religion, which is Islam. Maybe Hasan is just a homicidal ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, Town Hall,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Chapman,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  The Pentagon,  US Department of Defense,  Pew Research Center

Steve Chapman: Misplaced Cold War nostalgia

Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history. Twenty years ago, suddenly and improbably, it fell into its death throes. The end began the night of Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was opened, ...

From STEVE CHAPMAN, The Orange County Register,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Chapman,  George W. Bush,  Margaret Thatcher,  Francis Fukuyama,  Saddam Hussein

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