“. . . I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man I helped put behind bars.”
Thus...
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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12 February 2025
Gitmo, of course!! It’s the freest place “we” have – by which I mean the American government, a.k.a. Donald Trump. No rules apply there, be they...
05 February 2025
“Some experts worry that, if the country went to war, many reserve units might be unable to deploy. A U.S. official who works on these issues put it simply...
29 January 2025
As the Trump presidency digs its claws into the country – winner take all! – I look on in terrified amazement as he begins arrogantly instituting what can...
22 January 2025
And now Trump consciousness purports to claim – or reclaim – control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit...
15 January 2025
Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate?
This strikes me as the stupidest question a human being could ask – and, just possibly, also the last....