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He's "America's Favorite Undocumented Anchorman" and this week the great Mark Steyn joined us on the show to discuss his brand new book, "The Undocumented Mark Steyn". Unfortunately, we had business to take care of before we talked about the book...

There's been a whole lot of discussion over the last several years as to why the IHSA continues to treat certain basketball sectionals differently than others. The current system allows most sectionals (near the Chicagoland area) to seed all teams together, while the other two groups are broken down into smaller regionals...

U.S. Senate candidate Doug Truax joined the show this week on the heels of two big endorsements. The first-time candidate was backed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock in his primary fight with State Senator Jim Oberweis...

State Treasurer and GOP candidate for Governor, Dan Rutherford, joined us on the show this morning to respond to allegations made in a lawsuit filed by a former employee in the Treasurer's office. Rutherford says the claims of sexual harassment and fundraising pressure are totally false...

Former Congressman Bobby Schilling isn't a fan of the President's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.  Joining "Riley & Scot" Wednesday morning, he said a move like that would only result in fewer jobs available for those just starting out in the labor market: One of the things that he doesn't talk about is the fact that the majority of these minimum wage jobs that

The latest buzz in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor involves accusations made by State Senator Kirk Dillard, and picked up by the Chicago Tribune, regarding Bruce Rauner and his former private-equity firm, GTCR. The story is quite complicated, and even the Trib appears unable to draw any definitive conclusions about GTCR's involvement in a nursing home investment— and any possib

The great P.J. O'Rouke joined "Riley & Scot" recently to talk about his new book "The Baby Boom" and what his generation did right and wrong.

What an amazing way to start the new year on the show! I'd been looking forward to having author/radio host/lawyer/law professor Hugh Hewitt on "Riley & Scot" to talk about his new book, "The Happiest Life".  Following his tweets, and the tweets of frequent contributors on our show, I noticed we fished from the same pond of radio guests.  ...

As we close the book on 2013 (no pun intended), I wanted to continue to revisit a couple of interviews from the end of the year. In December, we talked with former Illinois hoops star Stephen Bardo, author of the new book, “The Flyin' Illini“...

Who wouldn't want to start the morning with a classic Christmas carol, sung by college student cramming for finals?