(AFP) Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, choking back tears, testified Monday how no one in her family wanted her sister to marry the man who is accused of murdering her mother, brother and nephew. Balfour, the estranged husband of Julia
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A prominent U.S. Catholic nuns’ group said on Thursday it was “stunned” that the Vatican reprimanded it for spending too much time on poverty and social justice concerns and not enough on abortion and gay marriage. In
President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign is suddenly making an “urgent” push to hire more minorities, particularly blacks, Politico reports. The move comes after conservative outlets such as Breitbart News reported the stunning and hypocritical lack of diversity among Obama 2012 staffers
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn last year signed into law massive increases in personal and corporate income tax rates. However, that hasn’t kept Quinn’s state from facing ongoing budget holes caused by high spending. Medicaid is costing the Land of Lincoln
Yesterday I spoke with Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (along with my Breitbart colleague Mike Flynn, who was visiting St. Louis). This grassroots mom and cancer survivor is in the fight of her life, under attack by labor groups who
Michelle Obama is telling Americans that it’s time for them to community organize … on behalf of her husband. Today, the First Lady sent a missive to the BarackObama.com mailing list: Benjamin — I’m writing because Barack needs you out
No other race in the country better embodies the struggle between conservative and progressive ideals than the recall battle over Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor. The incumbent is former stay-at-home-mom and journalist Rebecca Kleefisch, whose ascent through the state party was a hard-won battle
The Philippines leads the world in the number of people who believe in God, while the elderly across all countries tend to be the most religious, according to a US study out Wednesday. Belief in God tends to be strongest
Once upon a time, Barack Obama wanted to be the second black mayor of Chicago, not the first black President of the United States. The community organizer-turned-local politician had big plans for the community he represented and hoped to organize
I watched Twitter with interest en route home from Chicago tonight because Bob Beckel apparently said something stupid again. Stupid indeed: Beckel dropped the “F” bomb on air yelling “You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about!” to panelist
Over the weekend, President Obama claimed that part of his job is to scout out vacation spots for his wife, Michelle. Speaking in Colombia, on a panel moderated by Chris Matthews and joined by the presidents of Brazil and Colombia,
A family is fighting for the rights of their 9-year-old son, and other children in wheelchairs who are forced to attend classes on the second and third floor of a Chicago Public School. Theresa and Mark August say the children
You’ve heard curiosity killed the cat. In this case, curiosity actually saved one. As CBS 2′s Jim Williams reports, Boots was about to be put down, but an alert bank official worked to block the execution, going against the wishes
A man with connections to the Chicago area is now on the FBI’s most wanted list. Investigators say Eric Toth regularly changes his name and his appearance. He’s a former teacher, who is wanted for allegedly producing child pornography. Toth
Talk about your one percent problems. Hollywood megastar George Clooney really, really wants President Barack Obama to serve a second term in the Oval Office. Earlier today we learned of Clooney’s new $40K per plate fundraiser for the president, a
The furor surrounding President Obama’s recent comments about the authority of the United States Supreme Court to overturn enacted legislation brought consternation from many a constitutional scholar as well as at least three federal appeals court judges from the Fifth
The Chicago Teachers Union, and school employee unions in general, are pulling out all the stops to slow down a school choice and education reform movement that is bowling them over in numerous states and cities. Bold reform efforts are
O’Reilly: “Violent crime in Chicago. So far this year 109 people have been murdered in that city. That’s up 56 percent over last year. Much of the violence is gang- generated minority-involved. “
In an online discussion this week, Natasha Lennard, Salon’s reporter covering the Occupy Wall Street movement, clearly spelled out what she believes will be the prime “enemy” for the Occupy movement this spring: the police. The online chat was previewed on
Fox’s Jesse Watters recently visited the hometown of Barack Obama for a Bill O’Reilly segment, where Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is now Mayor of what one person interviewed calls America’s deadliest city. Murder is so out of
The Chicago Teachers Union, and school employee unions in general, are pulling out all the stops to slow down a school choice and education reform movement that is bowling them over in numerous states and cities. Bold reform efforts are
Caucus of Rank and File Educators and Chicago Teachers Union organizers pre-purchased tickets to “Fight Back” against Education Action Group and Juan Williams at a screening of the film “A Tale of Two Missions,” at Chicago’s Illinois Policy Institute. The
Father Michael Pfleger, a radical religious figure and a friend of President Barack Obama’s, may be out of the national headlines. But that doesn’t mean he’s stopped his “social justice” activism. “We cannot talk about Trayvon Martin without talking about
In 1999, then-State Senator Barack Obama invoked the late radical Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who passed away in 1996, to promote a universal health care law he co-sponsored and which Illinois voters had overwhelmingly rejected. The bill incorporated language directly from the
Not Safe For Work – Vile union protesters and radical leftists descended on an appearance in Milwaukee by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It showed how the union and Occupy protesters truly are the fringe of the left. Their next objective?
