On Monday, seven NFL coaches got the axe: Lovie Smith (Chicago Bears); Romeo Crennel (Kansas City Chiefs); Chan Gailey (Buffalo Bills); Andy Reid (Philadelphia Eagles); Pat Schurmer (Cleveland Browns); and Norv Turner (San Diego Chargers). The national media seems uninterested
Appearing on local Chicago TV Reverend Jesse Jackson called on Homeland Security to come to Chicago in light of the gun violence epidemic highlighted by the announcement that there had been 500 gun murders in Chicago in 2012. Jackson asserted
By The Associated Press Quite a day for NFL sacks. Seven coaches and five general managers were fired Monday in a flurry of pink slips that were delivered the day after the regular-season ended. There could be more, but so
Analytics are the quest for truth. When a basketball player scores 22 points and a team wins by 12, some fans will make silly assertions like, “they would have lost by 10 if he weren’t there.” In fact, if “he
Actual 2011 BE before Lville, ND, WV, Rutg, Pitt & Syr left Proposed BE adding Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Temple & Tulane C7 plus Xavier, Butler & VCU (best possible conference) C7 + St.L, Dayton, Xavier (true All-Catholic) Lines filled
The late Andrew Breitbart, a lifelong Los Angeles Dodger fanatic who founded the Breitbart News Network, marveled at the unifying potential of sports, especially baseball. He emphasized that culture was upstream from politics. But in many ways, sports has always been
Radio Equalizer: REV AL SHARPTON (28 Dec 2012): In any civilized society you do not see massacres continue to happen, from Tucson to Aurora to Columbine to Virginia Tech to where we are now in Newtown to Chicago and you
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.’s wife Sandi, a Chicago alderman, was called a traitor to the community by local grassroots activist Mack Glover. Glover’s accusation came during a December meeting about the housing and foreclosure problems in the black communities of
When President Obama appeared on the Meet the Press on Dec. 30, he made it clear that the same gun laws that have made Chicago a criminal’s paradise are going to be pushed on the entire country during 2013. This
President Barack Obama is encouraging legislators in his home state of Illinois to legalize gay marriage this week, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The state only just established civil unions earlier in this legislative term. “While the president does not
Rev. Jesse Jackson on CNN Friday morning was asked to defend Chicago’s gun ban in face of the evidence that 500 homicides occurred in the city over the course of the year.
On Thursday, Cornel West shared his thoughts about the Sandy Hook massacre on Tavis Smiley’s radio show. West expressed frustration over the media’s willingness to demand gun control when violence occurs in suburban havens like Newtown, but largely ignore minority
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the Neval Thomas Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on December 21. Duncan, an ardent proponent of gun control, hails from Chicago, where such shootings are ridiculously common despite gun control. At the
Breitbart News has confirmed that The University of Chicago Laboratory School, where Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children, is protected by an armed, on-duty police officer. University of Chicago Police public information personnel informed Breitbart News that there is
The Chicago Tribune has announced that starting in January, the Chicago-based paper and several other Tribune-owned papers will be dropping the Associated Press as its chief wire service. Along with the Chicago paper, six other Tribune-owned papers will also be
Later this week, roughly two dozen members of the House of Representatives will return to the sad task of clearing out their offices. Some of the departing incumbents deserved to lose. Some did not, and some will be sorely missed.
Last Saturday, when President Barack Obama spoke at the funeral of Sen. Daniel Inouye, the Democrat and World War II hero who had represented Hawaii, he audaciously told a tale about when Inouye first inspired him that directly contradicted another
Chicago has been a shining city on a hill for gun-grabbers for decades. In fact, so extreme is the gun control in the Windy City that prior to the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago, you couldn’t even
Will County, IL–Potential Republican candidates in the upcoming special election over embattled former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.’s, 2nd district seat expressed optimism in a Will County Republicans meeting last Thursday night. Don’t tell the mainstream media, but so far, all four
Gun control advocates, following the NRA’s press conference on Friday, slammed the National Rifle Association’s response to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting. NRA CEO Wayne La Pierre told reporters: We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret
Roland Martin wants us all to see the dead bodies of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school. He imagines that this is the only way stupid Americans can “get” the shooting. In a new editorial, CNN
In this week’s showdown over newly proposed charter schools, organizers of the Chicago Teachers Union teamed up with hard left-wing community organizations, Action Now, Stand Up Chicago, Teachers for Social Justice and members of the International Socialist Organization under the
The official Occupy website has published an article titled “Hurricane Sandy, From Prison,” bylined by Jeremy Hammond. Mr. Hammond (aka Anarchaos) is a radical, highly political member of Anonymous who was arrested this year in connection with the hacking of Stratfor. The
In the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, discussion on how to prevent this incomprehensible tragedy from ever happening again has taken over the majority of airtime on national media outlets. It seems that everyone has an
Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel isunder attack by some of President Obama’s top political supporters. TheSEIU has committed half-a-million dollars to a new, anti-Rahm effort.The money was approved by a state council as part
