After the 82 shootings in which 14 were killed during the weekend of July 4, Chicago has settled back down to its usual rate of nearly 30 shot and 3 killed this weekend. However, there was also a riot on
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “American Newsroom,” a frustrated host Martha MacCallum asked liberal commentator Bob Beckel why President Barack Obama was doing nothing to “help these children” on the border. Beckel said, being “brutality frank” the president is ignoring
The muggy heat of July tells us it’s time for the greatest All-Star game in all of sports. But tough questions, like who have been the stars and who have been the flashlights of baseball’s first half, come with that
When the definitive history of Republican presidential dominance in the late 20th century is written, Richard Nixon will be seen as the architect. Indeed, a half-century later, in the early 21st century, when Republican presidential fortunes are once again on
John Gapper in a Financial Times article titled “US Banks Will Pay Dearly For Their Failure To Modernize” warns that the United States banking system is failing to modernize and is actually falling behind England, India, and Africa, as the
According to the Los Angeles Times, on Sunday the American Federation of Teachers called on Barack Obama to chastise U.S Secretary of Education Arne Duncan by putting him on an “improvement plan” prior to dumping him. The union was not
With thousands of unaccompanied illegal minors flooding across the U.S. border from Central America, the plan to house up to 120 of them in the town of Vassar, Michigan received a jolt Wednesday night from local community leaders and activists.
Cleveland loves the return of LeBron; Las Vegas, even more so. In the course of a few hours, the Cleveland Cavaliers changed from a team that hasn’t sniffed the playoffs since 2011 into the franchise favored over all others to
The city of Portland, Oregon, has done away with the section on its job applications for city employees that asks applicants if they have a criminal history, The Oregonian reports. Early in May the city removed the box asking if
Britain’s socialist Labour Party leader Ed Miliband recently said that his favourite news website was not a British newspaper, but rather the U.S. Republican-owned Real Clear Politics. Breitbart London spoke to Steve Forbes, the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, which owns
PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) — Kidney stones aren’t the first thing that come to mind when pondering the ramifications global warming. But scientists aren’t joking when they say hotter climates will increase the chance of the painful calcium masses forming
It rarely ends well when you get a tattoo on your face. Richard Magnan sports many of them. The one on his forehead announcing “F— the World” may just emerge as the prosecution’s exhibit A in his upcoming trial. Perhaps
Wednesday on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” MSNBC host Al Sharpton discussed the violence in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend in which 82 people were shot saying “there must be tougher legislation.” The civil right leader argued Congress
Former NBA player Rick Brunson, 42, arrested on June 25 and charged with aggravated battery and attempted sexual assault, allegedly gave the name “Patrick Ewing” in a massage appointment on April 2. The masseuse alleges that the faux-Pat Ewing attempted to
Tom Bevan, the co-founder of RealClearPolitics.com, is calling Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago a “war zone.” Bevan, a Chicago resident and host of a local weekend radio show, noted in a July 8 post that even as Chicagoans have become used
The Chicago White Sox thought they had a great promotion idea by giving fans White Sox rain ponchos to wear in the stands during the July 2 game. Unsurprisingly they were produced in a brilliant white color. The problem only
On Monday, July 7, Chicago was roiled by the toll of violence that occurred over the long Independence Day holiday when it was reported that the weekend saw 82 shootings with 14 deaths – 8 of those deaths from shootings involving police.
On July 7 Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the ongoing gang violence in Chicago is due to “lax state and federal gun laws.” According to CNN, 60 people were shot and 9 killed in Chicago during the long July
Jeff Samardzija, who was traded to the Oakland Athletics from the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, then started for Oakland on Sunday, left some Oakland fans wishing his name was “Catfish Hunter” or “Bob Welch” when they failed in their attempts
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon of Illinois has died. His son Jeffrey Dixon tells The Associated Press that the 86-year-old died Sunday at his home in Fairview Heights. He had recently been hospitalized for heart problems,
On Sunday afternoon, a Major League Soccer player received a yellow card for celebrating a goal by taking a selfie photo with fans. Sporting Kansas City forward Dom Dwyer scored in the 33rd minute against the Chicago Fire and promptly
While most of the city spent the weekend celebrating our Declaration of Independence and the birth of our nation, gang violence raged in Chicago, killing three and wounding 37. Even as the bang of fireworks heralded the evening of the
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, the “war on women” meme is back in full force. The abortion industry and the political left are actively distorting the ruling on social media as a way to
Bill Ayers had been in the news again lately after agreeing to be interviewed by Fox’s Megyn Kelly this week. This brings up one of the most contested issues from the 2008 race when Democrats insisted Obama had only a
The newspaper of record in Rochester is sorry about the 1,000 cases of black on Asian violence over the last several years. Specifically, the editors are not apologizing for ignoring the racial violence, which they did for years, but for
With such awful reviews, it might be that my expectations were low, but I had a great time at “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” For me to check my watch only once during a movie that runs nearly three hours… Let’s
Boston Red Sox star David “Big Papi” Ortiz thinks he has the explanation for why the Chicago Cubs have had such a long losing streak: they play too many day games. Ortiz points out that it is difficult for Cubs
When Colorado Democrats were pushing a gun control package that contained a “high capacity” magazine ban in March 2013, Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said his department would not enforce the measure if it were implemented. It was implemented, and
With the weekend behind us, it is time once again to tally up the carnage in the Windy City, a city with some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. This time only one person was killed, but
Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, reliably left-wing columnist Neil Steinberg is disgusted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling against “buffer zones” at abortion clinics, saying that the unanimous decision proves women in the country are “second-class citizens.” Last week
At least 27 people were shot, one of them fatally, in Chicago over the weekend of June 27 to June 29. According to NBC Chicago, the lone fatality was “a 42-year-old man shot in the head while riding his bike.”
The Bulls stepped out of their comfort zone last week, and there’s reason to believe their boldness will pay dividends. Following year after year of drafting pedestrian, ho-hum players, Chicago made a splash. The club traded two picks and another selection for
As a young fan of sci-fi, horror, and action films, I used to bristle when a critic would say some movie I enjoyed was “un-reviewable,” impervious to rational analysis, and bound to be a hit with the people who wanted
Hating on someone’s draft pick is like hating on someone’s lottery ticket. You literally have no idea what its real value is until you cash it. There’s every chance that you could end up laughing at a future Hall of
So this is what the promise of amnesty looks like. “Death trains” rumbling through Mexico teeming with children, headed for the U.S. border. Teenage girls raped. Unspeakable violence at the hands of ruthless coyotes, carrying out President Obama’s stunningly reckless
While Iraq and the Middle East are falling apart, thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding the southern border of the United States, an American is being held hostage by the Palestinians, and the IRS scandal is exploding, Barack Obama found
The World Cup match between the United States and Germany created pizza shortages around the country, with one restaurant in Kentucky saying that the game, which started at noon eastern, was responsible for an extra month of sales. In Washington,
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to allow gun stores to exist “in only about half of a percent of Chicago’s geographic area” got the go ahead on June 25. City Alderman voted 48-0 in favor of the plan. According to
NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and accountant labeled by the government as history’s most prolific and unrepentant tax cheat has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Wilmette, Illinois, resident Paul M. Daugerdas (DAW’-gehr-dahs) was sentenced Wednesday in
LeBron James opted out of his contract with the Miami Heat on Tuesday in a move that, despite the media attention it will get, should surprise no one. Whether LeBronintended to stay in Miami, or intended to legitimately test the
