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Riding a Good Horse in the Snow Part 2

Posted in HARPS, John Kass, OP/Ed on November 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | John Kass News

The other day I set aside the great book I was reading—“A War Like No Other” about the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson—got up from my chair and used my cane to hobble over to the glass doors.

I opened the doors and there it was, a perfect Northwest Indiana lake effect snowstorm.

The flakes puffy and white against the red burning bush in the backyard, on the evergreens, the wind swirling the flakes cold in the yard beyond.

And that’s when I thought about that horse and how great it would be to ride that horse in the snow.

Sounds odd, I know.

I remembered it years ago. It was a different life. This was years ago when I rode that horse, and years later when I first wrote of it. About seven years ago now, in another column and another snow, like this quiet heavy snow from days ago that I’m thinking about now.

Mid-November was time for bird hunting back then in my world with my stubborn mule-headed German Shorthair Pointer, Jason.

I could still walk then, and ride, and hunt a field of cut corn, and train a dog and wade a cold river fishing for trout, steelhead and salmon. And I could drive a car.

But things change. You know this if you have wits. And if you can’t grasp this truth of life then quit or grow the (bleep) up.

Many of you probably don’t give two figs about the horse. That’s OK too. But back when I could drive, I was heading east on Ogden Avenue in that snowfall and my car wipers stopped working. I had to repair them. The Honda guy noticed the tread was gone on my front tires, and the front brakes were gone, too. Merry Christmas to me.

But I was thinking of how nice it is to ride a good horse in the first snow.

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Related: “Column: Riding a good horse in the snow” – John Kass/Chicago Tribune November 12, 2019

Lucy, a rescue horse at the Hooved Animal Rescue & Protection Society in Barrington Hills, sports a snowy nose while outside in 2016. | Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune

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Pritzker’s Angry Violent Left Kills Any Hope of Immigration Compromise

Posted in Crime, John Kass, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order on November 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | John Kass News

One mistake people who don’t know me make is when they say I’m uncompromising.

That’s bs. I’m not uncompromising, except when it comes to bad whiskey, rude bartenders and snotty leftist journalists.  But when it comes to human beings, I’m all about listening to what reasonable people have to say in offering to avoid unnecessary strife.

The strife of the AWFLs (Angry White Female Leftists) or the Latina equivalent, which, is awfully unattractive to those voters who aren’t rabid commies.

So I was all ears when Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez was a recent guest on the Chicago Way Podcast to discuss possible compromise for law abiding illegal migrants who’ve been here for years, but who haven’t committed crimes. And I leave the podcast link here so you can hear for yourself.

“Well, there’s a pathway, John,” said Ald. Lopez.  “There really is. And I think the question is, are we willing to find a solution?

“Or are we just doing this so that we have an excuse to continue to fight Donald Trump and pander to the most extreme of our party? We can find a solution.

“And there’s a very simple one, which I presented to Donald Trump in my letter a few weeks ago, which is you have to take the broken immigration system that we have on a two-tier track and look at it from that perspective.

“You have to deal with the Biden-Harris migrants separately from how you deal with the long-term undocumented who have been forgotten about since Barack Obama first took office. And we can address both simultaneously and still achieve the goals that he put out as well as finally produce on something that Democrats have long talked about, which is granting amnesty to those long-term undocumented individuals. In Chicago, mostly Mexican individuals who are those hardworking people in our communities who have been waiting for a path forward, we can grant them a pardon, grant them amnesty, grant them a path forward.”

Amesty?

Hmmm.

Amnesty?

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Pritzker the Coward

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Girlie man, John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order on September 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | John Kass News

Is anyone talking about the leadership qualities of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker?

No. Of course not. He is a liar who has run his failed state into the ground, damaging all who can’t escape and still live there.

Pritzker has inherited billions of dollars from his family’s hotel empire, allowing him to indulge every whim while eating a multitude of sins. He has spent an estimated $350 million on electing himself to the governor’s office. And now he wants to buy himself the presidency.

Ask yourself: Why don’t people talk of him as a leader? You never hear anyone talking about him in such positive terms. Why not?

There are many liars in politics on both sides of the political divide. I know this, having spent 40 years covering corrupt politics in the Combine State for the now-ethically bankrupt Chicago Tribune. But Pritzker is more than a simple liar.

He is a coward. His break with reality came after the assassination of the charismatic conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was murdered by a leftist pro-trans sniper who was appealing to his transgender lover, a man pretending to be a woman.  And the Democrats, leftist legacy media and others who demonized Charlie after his death and kept dreaming up scenarios that blamed Kirk for his own murder and held themselves absolutely blameless.

Yes all that is corrupt, twisted and evil. But as funeral services were held on Sunday, understand who killed Charlie Kirk.

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Related: “Pritzker Blames Trump for Charlie Kirk Assassination,” “Democrat Assassination Culture Killed Charlie Kirk”

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Democrat Assassination Culture Killed Charlie Kirk

Posted in Crime, Education, John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics on September 15, 2025| 2 Comments »

By John Kass | John Kass News

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity“ Charlie Kirk

Why did the Democrat left assassinate conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk?

Because the courageous Christian patriot engaged young Americans across the political aisle on important ideas and the left–despite the Democrat Media Complex that usually protects them–had no answer for what he was doing. The founder of the organization Turning Point USA had charisma, brains and moral clarity. He was an inspiration to America’s young.

Hard leftists had shut down public discourse at the universities, as they’d shut down open discourse in American newsrooms. Kirk invited face-to-face public debate with those who disagreed with him on his “prove me wrong” tour of college campuses. Young Americans loved him and some hated him.

What infuriated the left was that Democrats couldn’t compete with him or his ideas.

So they killed him.

The one who pulled the trigger allegedly is Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah.

Whether he’s executed for Kirk’s murder or becomes another poster boy for Democrat violence—like killer Luigi Mangione–is not known yet.

But we do know that it was the assassination culture of the Democrat left that caused this.

Read more here.

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Chicago Democrats From America’s Murder Capital Refuse Trump’s Help on Crime

Posted in Crime, John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, The Chicago Way, Unions on September 3, 2025| 2 Comments »

By John Kass | John Kass News

I grew up in Chicago–which for 13 straight years now has been the murder capital of America–believing that the Democrats were just too crafty to ever fall stupidly into some Republican trap.

But I was dead wrong.

When I was a boy there was legendary Chicago mayor named Richard J. Daley—who loved the city—and was tough enough and ruthless enough to run it and protect it.

Now Chicago is run by a racist pinhead subject to increasing anxiety and panic attacks. The city’s commercial real estate market is cratering as businesses flee, corporate offices close, and Democrat leaders refuse President Donald Trump’s help to send in the National Guard to help with the murder epidemic

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, soft of mind and body, ridiculed the president’s offer of assistance, saying crime really isn’t an emergency, though more than 50 people were shot and at least 7 were murdered over the weekend.

The truth is that Mayor Pin Head and Gov. Fat Boy don’t really care about black and brown people who are the true victims of violent crimes. They care about the Chicago Teachers Union. They care about shielding Democrat boss Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County Board President and Cook County Democrat chairman.

Boss Toni is a hard leftist protected by the corrupt corporate legacy media. She is without a doubt the architect of Chicago’s anarchy of crime.

The Democrats are now the pro-criminal party. They are eager to defund police and clear out the county jail that Boss Toni considers too black, too brown. Although the victims of violent crime in Chicago are black and brown. The city’s public schoolchildren can’t read or do math at grade level. All they’re prepared to do is make a life of violent crime and prison.

Chicago circles the drain.

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Confused, Starving Reporters Now Desperate for Food After Killing American Journalism

Posted in Deception, Ethics, John Kass, News Media, OP/Ed, Politics on May 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | John Kass News

After it destroyed its own credibility by twisting the truth to protect Joe Biden and hide his senility, can American corporate legacy news media hope for rebirth?

No.

It’s dead. Journalism killed itself covering up Joe Biden’s senility so Democrats could maintain power. Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again. The media is a feast for crows.

CNN’s Fake Jake Tapper and the rest of them can shriek and pull out their hair, protesting wildly that they are true journalists interested in “speaking truth to power.”

That too, is a lie.

They are not journalists, they are political propagandists. They’re paid whores.

This latest episode of mainstream media corruption brings to mind an apocryphal story often wrongly attributed to Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, “Madam, we’ve already established what you are. All we’re doing now is discussing the price.”

The disgraced legacy news media is a one-eyed jack, a knave without honor, caught covering up for the Democrat Party lie, installing and maintaining the senile old man who had the nuclear codes. And the mainstream media, from the dying papers to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC banded together vilifying any colleague who demanded answers.

The boss whore of this despicable gang is Tapper, who is now cashing in, selling his book, telling the tale he loudly condemned others for approaching . And all of his posse who profit after keeping their mouths shut for so long, after putting the nation through hell, deserve contempt. Tapper’s newfound “humility” is but another means to whitewash this shameful scandal.

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Pritzker, Durbin’s “Surprise” and the Musical Chairs of Illinois

Posted in Commodius Maximus, John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield on April 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Deputy Gov. Andy Manar plot their devious stratagems after Sen. Dick Durbin resigned

By John Kass | John Kass News

Illinois politics has a strange way of ruining your appetite, especially if you’re a taxpayer with an already sour stomach.

Even if you’re an Illinois resident living part time in Naples, Fla., Park City, UT., or Positano on the Amalfi Coast, and if you still have family in Illinois then no amount of Tums or Pepto Bismol will soothe your tummy.

Henry VIII King of England had a bulging appetite too, as does Illinois Gov. Fat Boi himself,  J.B. Pritzker. They had full appetites. They ate everything.

Henry, the Tudor King got massively fat by stuffing himself with piles of roast meats of all kinds, savory pies chock-full of four and twenty blackbirds, larks and eels, and mounds of candied jellies.

But Henry at least tried to work off the stress. He played tennis and he jousted some and he kept finding new wives to kill.

What of the Gov. of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, who wants to become president?

He’s much too fat to climb up on a horse. He eats so much and has gained so much weight so that he broke his own leg just by standing on it. True story.

But his magic talent is that he’s run Illinois—the worst governed state in American history—deeply into the ground.

And still he wants more. He’s a glutton, stuffing himself, seeking power and more power.

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Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker

Posted in Commodius Maximus, Dinky, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), John Kass, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Taxes, The Chicago Way, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on April 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | John Kass News

When we were young raising our family, pinching pennies to pay the mortgage and take care of the children, we’d see news stories about rising violent crime in my hometown of Chicago.

We’d breathe a sigh of relief, thankful that we were no longer in the street gang neighborhoods where murders were commonplace.

Yeah, we paid high property taxes in the suburbs—too high because the Chicago Teachers Union dictated the state’s politics—but at least we thought we were safer.

We thought we’d escaped. That lasted until it didn’t.  Now we’re gone.

And I see Illinois residents running as fast as they can for the exits, not only retirees and geezers like me fleeing to Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

But young people with good incomes—the kind a place can’t afford to lose—are fleeing Illinois as if from the plague.

“We couldn’t have planned it this way,” write Ed Dabrowski and John Klingner of wirepoints.org. “But our seven most-read stories in 2024 each captured a different facet of what’s wrong with Illinois.

“Failing schools. Murders. Closing businesses. A bloated, overpaid government sector. Election interference. Population-loss denial. And Chicago’s twisted equity priorities.”

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What Dems Have Done to Deerfield girl—and the rest of Illinois—is Just Plain AWFL

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, John Kass, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions, WTF on March 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | johnkassnews.com

You hear that gruesome story of the 13-year-old middle-school girl from Deerfield confronted by school officials and ordered to disrobe in front of a male classmate?

It sounds too AWFL to be true.

But it happened, according to her mother Nicole Georgas who said Tuesday she was filing a police complaint with the police in Deerfield on top of a complaint she filed with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The mom alone standing up for her daughter’s privacy was repeatedly mocked and insulted by hostile trans activists as she addressed a crowded District 109 School Board meeting.

The story has gone viral world-wide and was broken by the Lake County Gazette and Dan Proft’s radio show “The Morning Answer.”

To understand this bizzarro world, please understand this:

Even though President Donald Trump has signed an executive order protecting girls’ privacy, and has vowed to cut federal education funding to rogue states, the Illinois Democrats are funded by billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker, who is the bankrupt state’s leading activist for transexuals.

And he’s running for president.

Kass’ column continues here.

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Democrat Madness Triggered by Sunlight of Common Sense

Posted in Dinky, John Kass, NPR, Politics, Taxes on February 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By John Kass | johnkassnews.com

Why is the hard anti-American left so angry at Elon Musk? They’ve been unmasked. He and his warriors at DOGE have found them out.

For years, they’ve been getting paid with your money, a billion dollars a week of American tax dollars, and laughing at you as the United States faces a fiscal deficit and as you’ve pinched your pennies hoping to survive the Democrat Party’s 20 percent inflation, as their leftist allies were living large . That’s why Democrats are so angry. They’ve been discovered. We see the hate and madness in their eyes directed at us for seeing the other side of their facd.

Now they’re screaming like scalded cats in a sack, because Musk and President Donald Trump have cut off their gravy train.

I didn’t approve their spending spree. American taxpayers didn’t vote on the U.S. Agency for International Development spending millions on snacks for terrorist cells of al Qaeda. Or $75 million on diversity scams in foreign nations. What about $17 million for “equity” in Vietnam? Or $8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gender” language? Or shoveling millions and millions of dollars at left-wing American media organizations without telling subscribers or taxpayers?

And so on.

And $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala and $47,000 to underwrite production of a transgender opera in Columbia? What of $16 million in condoms for the Taliban? Or $30 million to study AIDS among transvestite prostitutes in South Africa?

All this is only a small fraction of federal spending that you pay for. Just wait until Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency move onto other federal departments. Because they’re inviting further detailed line-by-line scrutiny of the federal budget.

Nothing illustrates political madness quite like the Democrats screaming in rage, frothing at the mouth, after the corrupt spending schemes of the two worst presidents in American history–Joe Biden and Barack Obama—were discovered and made public. Joe is a drooling meat puppet now, but are Obama and his schemes under every moist rock? It appears so.

Kass’ column continues here.

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