My Kind Of Town
Now this could only happen to a guy like me
And so I say to each of you most gratefully
And only happen in a town like this
As I throw each one of you a kiss
This is my kind of town, Chicago is
Sometimes you find the perfect image to illustrate your post.
Chicago is having a pretty good year if you follow the old adage that all press is good press. Even with “bad” press you are still in the news. The Blackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. Their junior member of the Senate is now the President of the United States and many of Chicago’s operatives are now employed by the White House.
uses the usual cast of characters in this exciting novel. Act of Treason doesn’t have as much of the covert operations-type danger as past Rapp novels which is a nice change. I could kind of figure out what was going to happen in many places and I liked that. 
to to have missed the connection and detail relating to economics. The book is probably more readable for the general public, but I missed the details in every story.
Ayn Rand’s famous character from Atlas Shrugged railed against big government and a nanny state. Many of us find inspiration in his words and actions to bolster capitalism;
One of my favorite cartoons as a youth was Underdog. Have no fear, Underdog is here! Of all of Underdog’s protagonists, none were more irritating than scientist/inventor Simon Bar Sinister. One of his weapons was a machine that made snow. I can still hear him running around wreaking havoc yelling “Simon Says Go Snow.” 
is a collection of past articles and “other controversial essays” covering race relations, taxes, black history month, public education, the media, and much more. Because of the format, none of the articles is more than three pages and sometimes the subject left me wanting more from Sowell.
The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb is quoting a Senate aid that White House Chief of Staff, 
