(AP) Chick-fil-A sandwiches become a political symbolBy BILL BARROWAssociated PressATLANTAAll of a sudden, biting into a fried chicken sandwich has become a political statement. Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain known for putting faith ahead of profits by closing on Sundays, is
Like any political campaign, you are told to attack your opponent’s strengths. Make no doubt about it, the Activist Old Media is Barack Obama’s most powerful SuperPAC, and they are out to attack Mitt Romney on his strength. Take the
(AP) ROCHESTER, Minn.Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., whose whereabouts haven’t been disclosed since he quietly took a medical leave from Congress several weeks ago, is being treated for depression at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, according to a statement released by
Laura Ingraham interviewed gun rights advocate John Lott. He recounted a conversation with then-Senator Obama who told Lott: “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”
Lately, President Obama has spent a lot of time trying to paint Gov. Mitt Romney as a mix of George W. Bush and a cold warrior on foreign policy. In an effort to make this stick, he has enrolled the
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s divulgement in a recent interview that he was against same sex marriage. Emanuel blasted Cathy, saying that his values “aren’t Chicago’s values” and agreed with Alderman Joe Moreno’s vow to block
CBS2 Chicago: They call themselves the “Fruit of Islam.” Men from the Nation of Islam met at the Mosque on South Stony Island and boarded buses to the South Shore.They handed out flyers, newspapers and DVDs entitled “Justifiable Homicide: Youth
The Obama campaign is in damage-control mode because of the fallout from his “you didn’t build that” remark. On Tuesday, Obama released a new ad with him addressing the issue, a sign that the Obama campaign recognizes that Obama’s remarks are not
As Barack Obama attacks “AK-47s,” while his press secretary promises that Obama respects Second Amendment rights, it is worth recalling Obama’s long-running campaign for gun control, dating back more than a decade–a campaign he now seeks to downplay as he heads
The unemployment rate in the city of Chicago is approximately 9.8 percent, well above the national average. Since Monday night, one 17-year-old boy has been shot and 13 others have been wounded in shootings across the city. And that’s just
A majority of American employers consider the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) “a step in the wrong direction,” according to a new report released yesterday by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. The report, titled “2012 Deloitte Survey of U.S. Employers: Opinions About the
Chicago alderman Joe Moreno says he’ll prevent a Chick-fil-A from opening in Logan Square due to the president of the chain supporting only traditional marriage of a man and woman.
CBS Chicago reports that the shootings and violence have become so endemic in Chicago that none other than the Nation of Islam has now stepped in to try and bring a halt to the violence. Calling themselves the “Fruit
Get ready, party people: Barack’s partying down, and you’re invited! Well, not really. But you can give him money to pay for his birthday cake. And you never know – you might be selected to join the party for purely
The Chicago School system is rapidly collapsing. Its graduation rate is a horrid 56 percent, its finances are in tatters, and even though the Chicago Teachers Union was offered a 10 to 15 percent raise, CTU officials still want to
There has been some interesting commentary in the conservative media regarding the new Obama campaign slogan for 2012: “Forward!” The slogan debuted on April 30 — May Day eve — in a seven-minute video by the Obama campaign, with the “O” in
Give Barack Obama points for consistency: he has always blamed Bush for the economy, even when it was humming along. In April 2003, Obama, then a state senator, attacked George Bush’s “attack on working families.” He called on Bush to
(AP) Colo. school investigating suspect’s deliveriesBy ALICIA A. CALDWELL and MEAD GRUVERAssociated PressAURORA, Colo. The University of Colorado says it’s investigating whether shooting suspect James Holmes used his position as a graduate student to order materials in the potentially deadly
Within hours of these awful murders, narcissist Roger Ebert decided to preen and push his left-wing politics on gun control and, through some brilliant insight few mortals enjoy, read the alleged killer’s mind… Lowlights: JAMES HOLMES, who opened fire before the midnight
Unfortunately, Hollywood is little different from the media left when it comes to feasting on the corpses of those who die in a massacre in order to to cravenly fuel a political agenda. Comedian/actor DL Hughley couldn’t wait to use
Jay Leno is one of the few late night comics who will regularly target President Barack Obama with his comedic barbs. You know, the way 100 percent of comedians once did when George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were in
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. NBC Chicago: A North Texas man says he is outraged that airport security agents at Dallas Love Field strip-searched his wife and handled her feeding tube. Melinda Deaton has a four-inch medical tube sticking out
[Regina] told me about her childhood in Chicago, the absent father and struggling mother, the South Side’s six-flat that never seemed warm enough in winter and got so hot in the summer that people went out by the lake to
As the Obama campaign continues its attacks on Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and his tax returns, it has argued that the focus is justified because Romney made his business background his “calling card” for his presidential run. They argue,
For months the Chicago Tribune has been suffering the slings and arrows of local critics for having hired a web-based company called Journatic (pronounced Jer-naa-tik) to write many of its small, “hyper local” stories for its Trib Local newspapers. Critics
