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• Get out of IL now!

  4 hours, 55 minutes ago

  Doesn’t it dawn on people that anytime these riots occur, the very people they claim to be “helping” or advocating…
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• jnorto

  6 hours, 3 minutes ago

  In reply to Windy City Legal Geek:
  This is not the way James Bennet, the editorial page editor explained it. See, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/tom-cotton-op-ed.html…
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• Ken Dietz

  7 hours, 51 minutes ago

  In reply to Aquinas wired:
  Journalism is DOA from self inflicted wounds. Just look at the circulation numbers. BTW who is do decide…
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• Windy City Legal Geek

  8 hours, 11 minutes ago

  In reply to jnorto:
  The NYT actually approached HIM and asked him to write the piece.
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• jnorto

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  In reply to Dennis Byrne:
  You say in the blog that “tougher action against violent rioters is backed by a majority of Americans;” and you…
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