Last night on ABC’s “Nightline,” Terry Moran introduced a fantastic segment that took a serious look at something beyond the incessant media drumbeat that pretends only gun control will solve the problem of mass shootings. In a glaring exception to The Narrative,
(UPI) The entertainment world mourned the loss of numerous titans and dozens of supporting players this year. Among the notable deaths of 2012 were veteran television personality Dick Clark; broadcast journalist Mike Wallace; actors Andy Griffith, Sherman Hemsley, Michael Clarke
MORGAN: Now, you can see, this is an astonishing picture. This is a car outside Sandy Hook school. That is a bullet hole from a ricochet bullet fired from inside the school. Look at the power. Look at the impact. Imagine
At a Chicago Teachers Union protest in November, NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski refused to cover Chicago Teachers Union members’ connection to the International Socialist Organization and told me Breitbart News was “full of s**t,” after I asked him if he
Today, President Obama took to the podium to declare his unsurprising support for new, poorly-calibrated gun laws. His logic was simple: a horrific massacre occurred in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary, and we must try something. Anything. Well, not
While the state of Connecticut, and the nation at large, remains in shock over the school shootings in Newtown, some members of the black community in New Haven are frustrated at the outpouring of national attention to this incident when
This morning on “CBS This Morning,” left-wing co-hosts Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell dropped every posture of objectivity to bludgeon Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for what they framed as the Obama Administration’s gun control “cowardice” during the President’s first term.
Murders in the city of Chicago, Illinois, are up over last year and could hit 500 by the end of this year. That’s 41 a month, and you don’t need me to tell you that almost all of those homicides
An unfathomable tragedy like Friday’s shooting in Connecticut produces an understandable instinct to assign blame and “fix” laws. Despite eons of evidence to the contrary, we yearn to pretend that evil doesn’t exist. We convince ourselves that a particular tragic
Just this week, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Illinois’s ban on carrying concealed weapons and gave the state six months to draft a law that legalizes concealed carry. Despite having the toughest gun control laws in the
One of First Lady Michelle Obama’s closest friends may face charges of perjury, which is punishable by jail time, for lying under oath about her bankruptcy filings. According to a FOX 32 News and Better Government Association investigation, Yvonne Davila, who has
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Michael Sneed is reporting that President Barack Obama has chosen Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. This comes on the heels of Thursday’s announcement that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice had
The “Catholic 7” basketball schools made sports news this week by deciding to break away from the Big East to form a new league that would include an eighth Catholic school (Xavier) and recent Final Four teams VCU and Butler.
Santa has kicked the habit in time for Christmas. No, not the sugar plum habit, or his fur-wearing habit, or his penchant for romping recklessly around open flame. No, gentlepeople, this is the year the man in red gave up
The passage of right-to-work legislation this week in Michigan is a victory for the state’s working families. It is also a political victory for the conservative movement, and for the Tea Party in particular, which was written off as dead
The National Rifle Association just won a major court case in Chicago, providing a huge victory for Second Amendment proponents and gun owners. Illinois is one of the most anti-gun states in America. Its hostility toward the Second Amendment right
A federal appeals court in Chicago just lifted the ban on concealed carry in Illinois. Seizing on the precedent of rulings like McDonald v. Chicago and DC v. Heller, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the use and
(AP) Fed is expected to launch new bond buying programBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONWith a nervous eye on the “fiscal cliff,” the Federal Reserve is expected this week to announce a new bond-buying plan to support the U.S. economy. The
(AP) Chinese company wins bid for battery maker A123NEW YORKBankrupt battery maker A123 Systems Inc. on Sunday said it will sell most of its assets to the U.S. arm of Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group Corp. for $256.6 million.
(AP) NEW YORKBankrupt battery maker A123 Systems Inc. says it will sell most of its assets to the U.S. arm of Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group Corp. for $256.6 million. Chicago-based Wanxiang America Corp. won an auction conducted under the
A friend from Chicago, involved in Illinois politics who has known Obama since his early days in the Illinois State Senate, told me that two things that trump everything else in Obama’s mind: redistributing the wealth and empowering labor unions.
On Thursday, an illegal alien living in Illinois received a free kidney transplant paid for by Loyola University Medical Center. “Why can’t we be treated the same?” said Jorge Mariscal, 24, after the operation. “Health care should be a human
(AP) Academy Award maker plans layoffs in ChicagoCHICAGOThe company that makes the gold-plated Oscar statues will lay off almost 100 employees in the process of being bought out. But some workers could be rehired, it said, and the one-of-a-kind awards
(AP) Academy Award maker plans layoffs in ChicagoCHICAGOThe company that makes the gold-plated Oscar statues will lay off almost 100 employees in the process of being bought out. But some workers could be rehired, it said, and the one-of-a-kind awards
(AP) Arrested Ill. senator continues bid for CongressCHICAGOAn Illinois state senator accused of trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in his bag says he plans to continue his campaign for the congressional seat once held by
