The Wendy Davis campaign continues to frantically attempt to distract the conversation from the elaborate fraud that is her public persona to the fact that those mean conservatives keep attacking her. In an email to supporters, Davis’s campaign manager called
Many of the same singers we saw at last year’s VMA telecast on MTV will be on hand tonight to see if they will be taking home a Grammy Award or two. What audiences likely won’t see, though, is the
As global warming advocates continue to insist that our “overheated’” planet is approaching catastrophic conditions, America is experiencing its coldest month of the century. What may be even more confusing for Americans is that Super Bowl Sunday may become Super Bowl Monday. Weather
Democrats have given up arguing that Wendy Davis is being honest about her history and are now simply demanding we all accept her narrative and her lies simultaneously. In a column suggesting Davis is being “swift-boated” for fabricating parts of her
Masahiro Tanaka, the heralded Japanese pitcher that the New York Yankees signed to a 7-year contract worth $155 million, will pay almost $90 million of that in taxes for the privilege of playing in New York. Tanaka signed with the
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) —A National Weather Service forecaster says there is “no foreseeable end” to the extremely low temperatures being felt in Chicago. The deep freeze will last into at least next week, with the warmest temperatures coming on
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a rough start of the year for fliers. A series of winter storms have led airlines to cancel more than 33,000 flights during the first three weeks of this year. That’s more cancellations than
January 20, 2014 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — There is a new effort to find suspects in the shooting death of a college student. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Baker died on Saturday after he was shot Thursday night. On Monday, family and friends passed
Kevin Baker, a 19-year-old student at Harold Washington College, was the kind of kid who focused on his schoolwork, despite all the dangers and distractions of the South Side. He followed the rules and didn’t take any risks when two
An OfficeMax stationary store in suburban Chicago, Illinois has courted controversy and raised questions of consumer privacy by sending a direct-mail flyer to the home of a man whose daughter was killed in a car accident. It addressed the mail to
NBC Chicago: A suburban Chicago couple who lost their teenage daughter in a car crash last year feels as if they were victimized again after receiving a letter from OfficeMax Thursday. The envelope was addressed to Mike Seay, but the
The passing of Nelson Mandela last month sheds new light on the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King’s struggle for civil rights was different from Mandela’s struggle in two ways: first, in the U.S., non-violence
Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says. Darren Prince declined on Saturday to say which facility will treat Rodman and how long he will be there. Rodman
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina–Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said during his speech at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention that Andrew Breitbart and the team at Breitbart News have started a “revolution.” “What we’ve started, and what Andrew wanted to
Obama biographer and New Yorker editor David Remnick reported on Sunday that First Lady Michelle Obama is already fast at work on her memoirs, which famed literary agent Andrew Wylie says could fetch $12 million. Remnick quotes Obama strategist David
Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation center to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says.Darren Prince declined on Saturday to say which facility will treat Rodman and how long he will be there. Rodman recently
This story begins with the first bailout the Tea Party ever stopped. In May 2010, I helped the Illinois Tea Party organize a demonstration on LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago outside the offices of Shorebank, which was about to be
(AP) Ebert documentary to premiere at Sundance festivalBy CARYN ROUSSEAUAssociated PressCHICAGOWhen “Life Itself” debuts Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, it will be the first time Roger Ebert’s widow will see the full documentary about her late husband’s life. Ebert
Police departments across the country are struggling with staffing shortages as a result of a weak economy, hiring freezes, furloughs, layoffs, and cutbacks to salaries, benefits, and retirement incentives. According to Police Chief Magazine, “Such difficulties spurred 7,272 applications to
President Barack Obama has named two Chicago cronies with no foreign policy experience to coveted ambassadorships. One, Colleen Bell, is a writer for The Bold and the Beautiful who married into “Chicago’s soap opera dynasty,” reports Carol Felsenthal of Chicago magazine. The other
Egyptian citizens finished up five days of voting for a constitutional referendum in consulates across the U.S. on Sunday (New York City, Washington, D.C., Houston, Chicago and San Francisco). The full vote takes place in Egypt today and tomorrow. On
When Dr. Sandra Stotsky was asked to become a member of the Common Core Validation Committee, she assumed her vast experience in developing English Language Arts standards would be useful to the design of the new academic standards. What she
On the its broadcast of “OutFront” on Wednesday, CNN aired a video from a speech given by President Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright at a breakfast hosted by the Chicago Teachers Union to commemorate Martin Luther King
Early this week, the Chicago Cubs debuted its new mascot bear, “Clark The Cub,” to great fanfare. The new pantsless team mascot, however, has received much ribbing from fans. In fact, on the blog community sponsored by the Chicago Tribune,
While proponents of the Common Core claim that the new standards are focused on “college and career readiness,” more evidence is surfacing that a central purpose of the initiative is social justice and income redistribution indoctrination. Social justice indoctrination in
