I Despair
America has had both good and bad presidents. We have survived and prospered under both types because we are a blessed land of freedom and plenty. The election of Barack Obama is not something I wished to see happen but
America has had both good and bad presidents. We have survived and prospered under both types because we are a blessed land of freedom and plenty. The election of Barack Obama is not something I wished to see happen but
Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked Chicago newspapers to write editorials to get the Illinois senate to change the impeachment trial rules.
WBBM: Gov. Rod Blagojevich spoke to reporters outside his Chicago home Thursday morning, a day after he missed a deadline to tell the Senate what people and documents he wanted to subpoena for the trial to remove him from office.
The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles Revised and Updated (with Apologies to Homer) Book the First: A question for the Muse Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful man who strides so boldly upon the golden shrine of Potomac, Between
Fade In. Dolly in. We see me, a man that serves in a important creative supporting role, seated at a meeting attended by executive powers of a most important television show. My head is down, pencil plowing away into the
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Chicago Tribune: President-elect Barack Obama on Friday broke from the pool of reporters and photographers assigned to follow him and took his daughters to see a dolphin show
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Obama told reporters in Chicago that America needs to “come together,” even when there’s disagreement on social issues. “That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all
AP: Sources say President-elect Barack Obama has selected Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary. Duncan currently runs the Chicago school district.
WBBM-TV: Blagojevich portrays himself as a Cubs fan. Now, as CBS 2’s Derrick Blakley reports, charges against the governor include allegations he threatened to block the sale of Wrigley Field unless the Chicago Tribune backed off its criticism of him.
AFP: President-elect Barack Obama extended a bipartisan olive branch by meeting his vanquished Republican rival John McCain Monday, but a cabinet job was not expected to be on offer. The meeting in Chicago between the victor of the November 4
AFP: Two unnamed Obama advisers told NBC News network that Hillary Clinton, now a senator for New York, “is under consideration” for the post. According to NBC, Clinton flew to Chicago — where Obama is based — on Thursday, but
Rush Limbaugh: I must confess, ladies and gentlemen, thinking of them as “Chicago thugs” was not my idea. Normally, I’m a very original guy, as you people know. I come up with my own stuff, my own observations, but I
Embedded video from CNN Video Chicago Tribune: All through the night, villagers in the Obama family’s ancestral village near Lake Victoria had kept an outdoor vigil, alternatively praying and watching election returns on an oversized television screen erected outside the
WBBM: Chicago is no stranger to the foreign press, but those journalists are here in almost unprecedented numbers right now to cover Barack Obama’s historic run for the White House, and what is likely to be an amazing scene Tuesday
WBBM-TV: Project Shield, a $40 million project to install surveillance cameras across Cook County, has drawn criticism from some law-enforcement authorities and allegations of mismanagement.
AP: Chicago police say singer and actress Jennifer Hudson has identified the body of her 7-year-old nephew, who was found dead Monday morning in an sport utility vehicle.
Sun-Times: Officials from the Medical Examiner’s Office were notified after the body of a black male child was found in an SUV that had been missing since Hudson’s mother and brother were found dead Friday.
Chicago Sun-Times: The body of a male child was found Monday morning in a white Suburban on the West Side, and authorities were investigating whether it was Julian King, the 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.
WBBM-TV: In a survey, 60% of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students said they felt unsafe at school. It’s one reason there could be a high school for them in Chicago very soon – called the Social Justice Pride Campus.
Breitbart.tv editors Scott Baker and Liz Stephans look at the video clips of journalist Martin Bashir’s now infamous speech to the Asian American Journalists Association convention in Chicago last weekend. Bonus: About 25 minutes into today’s show an audio malfunction
Notre Dame High School in Niles has set up 4,637 flags for members of the Armed Forces who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Derrick Rose talks about all the distractions that he averted before the draft … mainly girls.
Breitbart.tv editors Scott Baker and Liz Stephans look at the day’s hot news stories including the Chicago priest under fire for what he said at Obama’s church. Also Bill O’Reilly goes ballistic talking about bias at NBC News. You can
