What do you get when you combine: 1) a political radical who has been arrested and charged with conspiracy after causing civil disruptions including riots and 2) bureaucratic agencies in California with a record of environmental extremism that are focused
You know things are tough all over when even the media start noticing what’s wrong with this picture: But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns – or forgoing them altogether – the Obamas don’t
The AP covers President Obama’s busy, busy schedule. Luckily, there’s nothing important going on in the world: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is capping his birthday week with an afternoon of golfing on Saturday and a barbecue on Sunday. The
The man on the podium was short and stocky, grizzled and growling, with a chewed cigar in one hand and an elegant conductor’s baton in the other. One contemporary newspaper described him as looking “more like a fight promoter than
Well, she’s really always had them. Today the President will acknowledge them, too. At a White House ceremony around noon today, the President will decorate 13 citizens with the Presidential Citizen’s Award. And some of you here know one of
As the August 6th bailout deadline approaches, when the federal government must either give ShoreBank $75 million or take it over entirely, new evidence is emerging about ShoreBank’s connections to Chicago politicians. The latest revelations raise new questions about the
Every now and then, I kind of feel sorry for President Obama. If there’s anyone that has seen bad schools, it would be a community organizer from the south side of Chicago. President Obama has rolled out a series of
Cedra Crenshaw proved to be too quick to be the latest victim of the Chicago Machine. She’s running for the Illinois state Senate as a Tea Party Republican, and Democrats did their best to keep her off the ballot. Though
Yesterday, Cedra Crenshaw defeated the Chicago Democrat machine and won her rightful spot on the ballot this November. Voters in Illinois’ 43rd Senate District will now get a choice, not a coronation. A white Democrat election board threw her off
American Federation of Teachers’ president Randi Weingarten’s new line is, “suddenly, everyone’s an education expert.” She first trotted this phrase out in response to a positive review of the upcoming documentary film, “Waiting for Superman,” posted on the liberal Huffington
For months, we have been told that ShoreBank deserves a bailout because it serves poor communities. We have been assured by ShoreBank’s patrons, such as Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), that allowing the federal government to take over the bank will
I condemn the NAACP. I am really upset over their recent charge that the tea party movement is racist. When will these people wake up? What is the basis of their allegations? Speaking from experience, I will say that the
In nearly every child’s life there is a painful moment when the true nature of Santa Claus/The Tooth Fairy/Milli Vanilli becomes known to them. Maybe a parent sits them down and explains the facts of life, or maybe the child
“I’m not presenting the Islamic system as one of the alternatives – or an alternative. This is a defeatist and apologetic approach. The Islamic system is the only alternative for mankind.” – A speaker at the Hizb ut Tahrir Khalifa
Over the next ten days, I will present to you America’s top ten journalists that are most biased to the left. On this list you will find denizens of the Old Media that just can’t seem to help themselves from
As the NAACP prepares to condemn the tea party movement for phantom “explicitly racist behavior”, the Department of Justice and the NAACP overlook actual instances of explicitly racist behavior by the New Black Panther Party. Blatant disregard for actual racist
Jesse ‘Jacko’ Jackson is accusing Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert of behaving like a slave master. “He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based
Recently, Big Government told of a proposed fiscal year 2009 federal budget earmark intended for the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), a Chicago-area nonprofit that went belly-up late last year. The article questioned why IL Democrat Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who introduced the
Just yesterday I wrote: For a Chicago pol, whose path to prominence came not via intellectual brilliance or personal charisma but through behind-the-scenes machinations to get opponents thrown off the ballot or have their sealed divorce records made public, “by
At Washington D.C. news conference, held at the Offices of the Center for American Progress, archeologists working for the Smithsonian Institution have announced an incredible discovery, a revised copy of the U.S Constitution dated 1790. This document was passed by
[youtube z6zHWGFEg7w nolink] In the wake of 9/11, it became rare for American Islamist groups to openly call for the establishment of Islamic sharia law or the revival of the pan-Islamic state, or caliphate. Media-savvy, Muslim Brotherhood-linked operations like the
How was I to know [he] was with the Russians, too? Justice Stevens’ opinion leaves him on the wrong side of history regarding the importance of the 2nd Amendment. Part III deals with Justice Stevens’ dissenting opinion in McDonald v.
The Hill revealed yesterday that Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and three other Chicago Democrats have written a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, asking him to release $70 million in federal TARP funds to bail out ShoreBank. ShoreBank’s
The power to make money, and the ability to receive a reward for assuming risk, have been cornerstones of America’s economic success. A free-enterprise system made the U.S. the world’s only remaining superpower. Sadly, all of the above are foreign
It is no secret that Illinois is going broke with over $6 BILLION in unpaid bills to social service providers, Medicaid doctors, mental health providers and schools. It is also no secret that the state has a $13 BILLION budget
