Cable commentators told us all day Tuesday that the whole world was watching the wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jackson's memorial.
Oh, dear. Now the Vatican has launched a probe of American nuns.
Whether you saw Michael Jackson as freak or fairy tale, he is a marker in history. And we'd be crazy to deny it.
Pro-choice President Obama goes to the Vatican next month to meet pro-life Pope Benedict.
O,Illinois, of thee we sing. Only in this great state can former first lady Patti Blagojevich morph into the Mother Teresa of Costa Rica; can the dark side's Dan Proft pose as a candidate for governor, and can Congress take precious time away from the crises at hand to contemplate naming a government office building after former U.S. Rep. Bill "Put My Son In My Seat" Lipinski.
Maybe Forrest Claypool is right. Maybe it's time to leave his commissioner post on the Cook County Board. And abandon his quest to depose Todd Stroger as its president.
Exclusive Carol Marin interview: Forrest Claypool, calling it "the most difficult decision of my life," shocked political friends and enemies by announcing Thursday he would not run for president of the Cook County Board. His decision has unleashed a political free-for-all for the post now held by embattled President Todd Stroger -- who stands to benefit from his main rival's withdrawal.
Mike Royko wrote one of his best columns 15 years ago this month.
Mike Quigley had just stowed the Aero bed when he answered the phone in his Capitol Hill office early Thursday morning.
'You're only as happy as your unhappiest child," a friend of mine always says.
