In the ongoing discussion of Barack Obama’s involvement with Chicago’s extremist “New Party,” online literature from the Party likely reveals that the young state senator not only was a member but had to commit financially to membership. This past week,
Senior Obama campaign political strategist David Axelrod played dumb this afternoon when confronted by Breitbart News about President Barack Obama’s membership in the socialist New Party in the mid-1990s. Earlier today, author Stanley Kurtz released proof that Obama had been
Barack Obama, who wants everyone to feel that there is a part of him that they can identify with, is intent on referring to sons he doesn’t have. He has two daughters, yet Obama consistently refers to his “sons.” Five times this
Anyone who claims that teachers unions exist to improve public education is misinformed or lying. The unions have become blatantly political organizations that spend most of their time and resources trying to maintain their domination of public schools and school
Via Media Trackers: A Racine area organization with ties to both the Democratic Party and a Chicago-based community-organizing group may have violated Wisconsin election law late last week. Two churches that are part of the liberal-leaning Racine Interfaith Coalition hosted
Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers, like his connection to Jeremiah Wright, briefly became a campaign issue in 2008. The Obama campaign was quick to distance the candidate from the 60’s domestic terrorist, even as blogs continued to dig up evidence
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama disavowed any connection with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground radical who was one of Obama’s early backers and his colleague on the board of the Woods Fund in Chicago.
Last Tuesday, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported that President Barack Obama told a group of visiting Jewish leaders that he “probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it.” While that is certainly untrue, Obama continued, suggesting
Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale gave new meaning to constituent advocacy yesterday when he told Metra’s executive director “people are going to get hurt” in the dispute over how many minorities they decide to hire for a railroad bridge project, the
On the same day we learned the unemployment rate increased and job growth has stalled, Obama has decided to hob-nob with the Top 1% at six fundraisers – a record for Obama. Well, at least something is moving “Forward.” ABC
As part of the week of protests against NATO in Chicago, the National Nurses United union staged its own demonstration in Daley Plaza, centered around a message of wealth redistribution and class warfare. Their protest was part of a series
“The Great McGinty” (1940) charts the rise and fall of a Depression-era hobo to mayor of a city, then Governor, and finally exile in a banana republic. Though a satire, Preston Sturges, certainly the greatest writer-director in Hollywood history, was
As Illinois faces a $2.7 billion hole in its Medicaid budget, the AP reports that legislators have voted to cut benefits in an effort to bring program costs under control: Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, D-Chicago, said the Medicaid program will fall apart without
In a piece that must be read to be believed, the radical publication Adbusters, which first suggested the tactic of occupying Wall Street, has now officially endorsed the Black Bloc anarchists as the next phase of the now-flaccid Occupy movement.
All week, Democrats have been disagreeing publicly with President Barack Obama’s attacks on Bain Capital, with Newark Mayor Cory Booker describing the ad campaign as “nauseating.” It is not the first time that Democrats have attacked Obama for running dishonest
(AP) Fitzgerald stepping down as US attorney in ChicagoBy DON BABWIN and TAMMY WEBBERAssociated PressCHICAGOIn a city and state known for tenacious corruption, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald became known as a man who was just as tenacious in going after
Late last week, in two separate Breitbart News’ pieces (here and here), I openly accused the New York Times and its many mainstream media toadies of launching a coordinated attack of intimidation against Joe Ricketts, a wealthy Chicago businessman and
In October of 2011, in a nationally televised news conference, President Obama had nothing but positive things to say about the Occupy Wall Street movement. That same month, in an interview with ABC News, the President said of Occupy, “We
Wendell Goler: “The President has voiced support for the Occupy folks in the past, or at least their goals, did their actions in Chicago sour his support?” Jay Carney: “Well I think you’re making broad comparisons between different groups, what
America has been very, very good to Brad Pitt. But the Oscar nominee isn’t too pleased by the country’s capitalistic system – even if it means his gal pal gets him pretty expensive gifts now and then. Pitt’s latest film,
The British-Irish boy band “The Wanted” stiffed a Chicago-area high school by canceling two hours before the event, claiming illness, then playing a concert at a major arena the same evening. Conant High School in Hoffman Estates had scheduled the
President Obama and other NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit in Chicago that affirmed plans for a two-year pullout from Afghanistan, and fleshed out support for that country after the combat mission ends.
Ongoing chaos in Chicago has prompted extremely tight security on trains in the region. CBS Chicago reports that some trains have been cancelled and others are being swept for bombs out of concern for violence related to the Occupy/Anti-NATO protests
Today at the Chicago NATO Summit, Obama told the audience: [Bain Capital] is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is gonna be about. Meanwhile, back at campaign headquarters, Team Obama is in full meltdown mode after Newark Mayor Cory
In the aftermath of Vice President Joe Biden’s “Howard Dean” moment in Ohio last week, I was struck by the sheer magnitude of the Progressive-Democrat Left’s hypocrisy when it comes to their political attacks on the so-called “rich.” As the
