Columns

Gun plague hits home with advent of weapon for kids

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum Periodically, one comes across a story which makes you shake your head and insist, “This can’t be true.” The following is one of these stories and it is true. We suspect that it may have escaped your radar. A gun company in Bensenville, ...

'Attorney Woo' is must-see TV in any language

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum Pure joy. Those were the two words that continually came into my consciousness as I was writing this column on the Netflix series, “The Extraordinary Attorney Woo.” Based in Seoul, Korea (with subtitles), it centers around a young ...

Basic values take a customary back seat to expediency

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum As we reach a pivotal point in the history of the country with criminal referrals relating to Donald Trump’s presidency to the Department of Justice, I thought it is high time to ask a very basic question: When does one abandon values in ...

An ex-Speaker's turnabout ranks as one for the ages

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum What if I told you that Brutus didn’t think that Caesar was such a bad guy? Or that the Capulets were reconsidering accepting Romeo as a potential beau for Juliet. Or that the McCoys were planning to ask the Hatfields to come from Virginia ...

Herd instinct still prevalent in news world

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum Someone once observed that reporters are like birds on a telephone wire.  When one sits, they all sit.  When one flies, they all do -- and in the same direction. (To political junkies:  The essence of this observation is generally ...

Summit fails to address key climate concerns

March 8, 2023

Berl Falbaum It was the 27th time they met. It was the 27th time they decided to do basically nothing. I am referring to the international summits on the environment (known as the Conference of Partners, COP for short), which ended a most-recent two-week meeting, ...