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The essence of marriage excludes gay couples

While the inevitability of same-sex marriage now is a given — the only question remaining is when — I’m still trying to locate the why. When President Barack Obama last week endorsed same-sex marriage, the perception grew that the only thing holding back the eventual, but certain, legalization of same-sex marriage is the resistance of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 9:44 am
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Straight talk on gay marriage

Here is a thoughtful, calm and well-reasoned argument for why gay marriage is a bad idea. Aaron Fruh nails it when he says: The argument for same-sex marriage is that a state that denies rights to romantic unions is discriminatory and unjust. It seems that supporting gay marriage has become a litmus test for whether a... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 14, 2012 at 4:45 pm
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The media's hijacking of pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng's message

Whatever fate awaits pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, we know two things for sure: The Chinese tyrants will continue to force women to kill their wanted children. And President Barack Obama, who has ramped up the campaign fiction that Republicans have declared a “war on women,” will continue the detente with the real war on women... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 14, 2012 at 4:41 pm
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Walker's 'divide and conquer' remark sets off tizzy fit

You would have thought that Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker had beheaded dozens of union members and left their bodies along a Mexican highway. His approach to taming the out-of-control public employee unions in Wisconsin (“divide and conquer”) has provoked tongue clucking and horror. “Scott Walker is finally honest about his secret plot to ‘divide... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 14, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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Huffington calls Obama's bin Laden ad 'despicable'

If liberal icon Arianna Huffington calls Obama’s new TV ad saying that he got Osama bin Laden and Mitt Romney might not have if he had been president, just how wacky can the ad be? She said: Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” she said, “Using the Osama bin Laden assassination, killing, the great news that we... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 2, 2012 at 6:31 pm
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Racial profiling not at the heart of the Arizona immigration case before the Supreme Court

Methinks that the federal challenge to the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, heard last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, is terribly misunderstood. For many folks, the state law — which helps enforce federal immigration laws already on the books — is about racial profiling. They argue that cops, for whatever reason, will target people who... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm
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Do you think that you could live on a $427,000 pension?

That’s what a retired University of Illinois professor rakes in. According to Jim Tobin, of Taxpayers United of America, a bunch of others also are pulling in the kind of pensions that the Illinois public employee pension system simply cannot sustain. His press release reads: The most outrageous pensions in all the Illinois state pension... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 30, 2012 at 3:57 pm
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The goofy Sarah Palin sculpture reminds me of Harold Washington in women's undies

Conservatives are riled over an ugly sculpture of Sarah Palin, now on exhibit at the Bridgeport Art Center. The sculpture, which has been on tour, features a gapping, yawling mouth in which a pig can be roasted. Conservatives also have been riled about the nude (full frontal) painting of  of Palin in the Old Town Ale... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 29, 2012 at 4:50 pm
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In apparent first, a public pension plan files for bankruptcy

According to Pensions & Investments: In what’s believed to be a first by a public pension plan, the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund, Saipan, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The public defined benefit plan is only 38.8% funded, thanks to low investment returns and a benefit structure that’s been increased without raises... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 28, 2012 at 1:07 pm
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Zay Smith's QT feature returns. Will be thrice weekly on WBEZ blog.

As reported by Rob Feder, another former and great Sun-Times columnist: Veteran Chicago newspaperman Zay N. Smith, whose Quick Takes column was a popular fixture in the Sun-Times for 13 years, is bringing it back as a blog on the website of Chicago Public Media’s WBEZ-FM (91.5). This is great news for Chicago readers who have missed his witty and... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 26, 2012 at 5:26 pm
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