The City of Chicago is currently mired in a red-light camera scandal replete with bribes to city officials, indictments, and improperly timed cameras geared to hand out illicit fines. But despite all this, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel refuses to refund
The head of Organizing for Action (OFA), Obama’s former campaign apparatus, is resigning his position, causing a shake-up in the group’s top staffers. OFA Director Jon Carson is resigning his position to go to work for an undisclosed solar power
For the Wall Street Journal, columnist Gerald F. Seib contends that the 2014 elections are “policy-free.” But with his assessment, Seib seems to completely ignore the issue of immigration that has driven this election for months. In an October 28
Maine Ebola nurse and staunch Obama supporter Kaci Hickox is now refusing to place herself under voluntary temporary quarantine to make sure she is free of the Ebola virus, her lawyer says. Last Friday New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page offered some of the sharpest criticism yet of the Obama administration’s violation of the freedom of the press, saying Obama is “more restrictive” and “more dangerous” than any president in history. Page delivered
A new CNN/ORC poll released less than two weeks out from November’s election finds that the majority of voters are angry over the direction the country is headed and are opposed to Obama’s presidency. As the days to Election Day
To avoid controversy and lost customers, the owner of a Minnesota restaurant that specializes in African cuisine has covered up the word “Africa” on signs outside her eatery all because of bad publicity due to the world-wide Ebola crisis. Kellita
After initially looking to eliminate a football team-prayer huddle, a Delaware school district has relented and will allow the prayer but only if the coaches are sidelined from the huddle. Cape Henlopen School District Superintendent Robert Fulton had recently made
October has been one of the most violent months this year in the city of Chicago: This weekend, four were killed and 32 were wounded during a Indian Summer-like weekend. The deaths occurred on Friday and Sunday, but Chicago was lucky
In a last ditch effort to bring voters to the polls, Democrats are hoping to make the midterm elections about racism and Ferguson. Some African American activists are hoping that Ferguson will be the focus of this year’s election, claiming
For the last decade or so, the Democrats have been in the midst of a famed attempt to turn red Colorado blue with their much talked about “Colorado Model.” But this year it seems that their blue touch is reverting
On Friday, the Governors of New York and New Jersey placed a mandatory quarantine on healthcare professionals returning from countries where Ebola is running rampant and now Illinois joins them with its own quarantine order. On Friday, October 24, in
Atheist Sam Harris and Islamism apologist Cenk Uygur engaged in a face-off debate on Uygur’s cable show, The Young Turks, over whether or not Islam is violent. During the three-hour debate, Uygur accused Harris of being biased against Islam. The interview
As the media prepared to vacate newsrooms for the weekend, Democrats snuck in a last minute proposal that the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) be allowed to heavily regulate political content on internet sites such as Youtube, blogs, and the Drudge
Another high school has abruptly canceled its football season over accusations of hazing, this time in Pennsylvania. The Central Bucks High School West football season has come to an end over charges that a new player was forced to grab
A new study of the US business sector indicates American workers are shying from taking earned vacation time for fear that they will look like an unnecessary employee. The study found that American workers gave up $52.4 billion in time-off
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan punked Buffalo Bills receiver Sammy Watkins by jumping in at the end of a conference call with the first-round draft pick and pretending to be a reporter asking a question. Ryan’s own son, Seth,
On Thursday Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst decided to skip a meeting with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board saying that the paper has so favored her opponent that her time would be better spent campaigning. This prompted a
Michelle Obama has been jetting all across the country stumping for Democrat candidates but several times now has shown a penchant for confusion. Among other mistakes, this week she lost track of whom she was talking about in Colorado. Michelle
The co-founder of the Weather Channel is making waves among meteorologists by saying “climate change” is “nothing but a lie.” John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel in 1980, says that the theories of man-made climate change are no longer
A liberal Democrat Congressman from Tennessee is insisting that because of their opposition to Obmacare, Republicans could cause an Ebola epidemic in his state. Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen has a long history of making over-the-top, incendiary comments, and this month
Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan-Grimes’ is falsely accusing Sen. Mitch McConnell of trying to take the vote away from blacks in the Bluegrass State. In two new radio ads aired by Democrat Alison Lundergan-Grimes’ campaign, Kentucky civil rights leader
The famed block “M” fixed into the main pedestrian walkway at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was painted green on Wednesday morning in vandalism born of the school’s football rivalry with the Michigan State University
A U.S. Border Agent is saying that his department has no policy in place to watch the borders for illegals entering who might be infected with Ebola. Fox 5 San Diego reports that the federal government has confirmed that six
With Election Day only weeks away, early voting has started in Dallas County, Texas. But some are worried that those in quarantine and being watched for Ebola there might miss their opportunity to cast their ballot between now and Election
The chief of the Centers For Disease Control has come in for much criticism for his response to the Ebola crisis, but his current ideas might not be so surprising in light of the many political crusades in the form
Three young black men viciously beat a woman in Brooklyn in an attempt to rob her of her purse and cell phone and it was all caught on video. 21-year-old Gwendolyn Reyes, an Hispanic woman and aspiring model, was walking
The National Football League banned Ray Rice over an incident of domestic violence caught on video. But if his appeal of the ruling wins, Rice could be back playing football this season. Former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones serves as
When President Obama appeared at a local Chicago polling place to cast his vote during the first week of Illinois’ early voting period, the poll worker didn’t believe he was who he said he was. The president appeared at the
The Chicago Department of Public Health has developed a unique program using Twitter to track Chicagoans complaining about food poisoning from local restaurants in order to launch surprise health inspections on city restaurants. Starting last year, the Chicago Health Department
Last week President Obama appointed a lobbyist and Democrat Party operative as his “Ebola Czar,” but since Ron Klain took the position he has skipped most of the meetings, hearings, and status updates on the government response to the deadly
Police in Pennsylvania have been engaged in a massive manhunt for an man accused of killing one state policeman and seriously wounding another. The man was recently seen by a witness but has still evaded capture. On October 17, a
A police raid on a home in Redmond, Washington, snared more than guns, drugs and prostitutes. It netted ex-Seattle Sonics player Robert Swift. Robert Swift is one of professional basketball’s cautionary tales. Drafted out of high school in 2004 at
The number of those shot and killed in Chicago over the weekend almost mirrored last weekend’s, with two killed and nine wounded. Over the weekend of October third, only one fewer person was wounded but the same number was killed.
Despite being cashiered out of the Navy Reserve for testing positive for cocaine, Vice President Joe Biden’s son is still being allowed to practice law and won’t lose his Connecticut law license. Late last week the Wall Street Journal reported
In his weekly radio address for October 18, the President spoke to the mounting international Ebola crisis raging at home and abroad. While saying he had it all under control here in the US, Obama insisted that no travel bans
Famed coffee purveyor Starbucks is making a few changes to its employee policies, one of which allows workers to have visible tattoos. Its workers will also receive a pay bump. The coffee giant said it was increasing its pay scale
The famed bleacher seats at Chicago’s Wrigley Field have been torn down as a $577 million renovation project continues in the Windy City. The bleachers are to be rebuilt, adding 300 seats in left and right fields. More concessions stands
A passenger on a flight from Nigeria headed to New York’s JFK airport died in flight after vomiting in his seat Thursday, causing panic on board and on the ground and spurring a Congressman to demand changes in U.S. Ebola
Many on the left were excited this week to find a story at Deadspin.com claiming that Colorado GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner supposedly lied about playing football for his high school football team in the 1980s. The left went wild
