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Recent Ray Hanania columns you may have missed on Madoff, Kaegi and targeting criminals

Posted on January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Recent Ray Hanania columns you may have missed on Madoff, Kaegi and targeting criminals
Recent Ray Hanania columns you may have missed on Madoff, Kaegi and targeting criminals

Recent Ray Hanania columns you may have missed on Madoff, Kaegi and targeting criminals How is it that members of Congress can far exceed the profit performance of the stock market when it comes to  their own investments? Why did Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi artificially increase the assessments of suburban homes, thereby dramatically increasing…

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Subscribe to Ray Hanania’s new eNewsletter Political Column

Posted on January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 By Ray Hanania 1 Comment on Subscribe to Ray Hanania’s new eNewsletter Political Column
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Subscribe to Ray Hanania’s new eNewsletter Political Column The cost of an eNewsletter at Mailchimp has gotten out of hand so I decided to move my columns subscription page to a new site at Substack. You can subscribe (free for limited columns or paid for additional special columns) by clicking this link: https://hanania.substack.com/ I have…

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Opinion writing: “If you want a friend, get a dog”

Posted on July 5, 2021October 8, 2021 By Ray Hanania
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Opinion writing: “If you want a friend, get a dog” I am grateful for the readership that I get in my opinion writing, and I appreciate those who support me and enjoy the column and recognize the importance of the angry haters, too. If I wanted a friend, I would go out and get a…

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Ray Hanania Podcast: Smollett, Chicago Mayoral Election, Israeli war crimes

Posted on March 1, 2019November 29, 2019 By Ray Hanania No Comments on Ray Hanania Podcast: Smollett, Chicago Mayoral Election, Israeli war crimes
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Ray Hanania Podcast: Smollett, Chicago Mayoral Election, Israeli war crimes #RayHananiaPodcast #JussieSmollett #ChicagoMayoralElection #IsraeliWarCrimes This week’s Ray Hanania Podcast reviews the past week’s events, issues and my recent columns in the Regional News newspaper, The Reporter and Southwest News-Herald on Jussie Smollett; my columns in the @ArabNews on the Oscar win by #RamiMalek, and at…

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