Andrew trusted me to tell the truth about the media when he first started this web site, Big Journalism. I owe him much more than this small tribute. When Andrew first started this site and asked me to be a contributor I
Dan Savage, whom we discussed yesterday, is getting his own MTV show, “Savage U.” Savage, the militantly gay columnist who coined the perverse fecal matter/lubing definition of “Santorum,” then hypocritically started a campaign against bullying called “It Gets Better” (endorsed by
President Obama gaffed while addressing the Governors Association when attempting to highlight a successful program in Maryland. Obama asked the crowd if “Jack O’Malley” was in the audience, but Jack O’Malley is a former Chicago prosecutor and a lecturer at
The religion and religious views of Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are all widely known. They are reported on, discussed, and insulted regularly in the press. On the other hand, discussing President Obama’s religious views is apparently not
The Chicago Teachers Union has publicly linked up with Occupy Chicago and Action Now – the reincarnated ACORN – to oppose school reforms in the city. Citizen journalist “Rebel Pundit” caught up with the protest and identified many of the
On March 3 and 4, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government will host a conference calling for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. The conference, which is being organized by Harvard student groups and faculty, and which makes
President Obama’s campaign team for 2012 is beginning to look very familiar. Today, the Obama campaign named 35 national co-chairs. And no, Obama’s voice is not Grammy-worth there. Many of the names will ring a bell: Former White House Chief
Monday night Chicago Teachers Union and Occupy Chicago protesters, along with some local residents, showed up in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood to protest converting 18 public schools into charter schools. While none of the schools considered for conversion are in the north-side neighborhood, these
After the White House Blues Concert President Obama gave his rendition of “Sweet Home Chicago.”
Livin’ La Vida One Percent On the campaign trail in 2008, Michelle Obama denigrated corporate America, but on the campaign trail in 2012, she’s more than happy to take its union-busing cash and enjoy the lifestyle of the .001%. Michelle
The Albany Times Union has broken a story involving correction officers in Rensselaer county trying to unseat the incumbent Republican sheriff, Jack Mahar, through unsavory means. The crux of the story involves getting inmates to register or change their enrollment
Because the Illinois machine just can’t take enough from the hard working people that haven’t yet fled the state, Occupy Party State Rep. Kelly Cassidy thinks law abiding gun owners in Illinois should pay a tax on ammo. That’s right,
Global warmists finally have an email “gate” of their own that they can turn against “deniers” and they are taking full advantage of it. The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been “outed”
It’s been nearly four years since Bernard “Bernie Mac” McCullough died of complications from pneumonia. It took that long for his widow, Rhonda McCullough, to mentally prepare for researching the new Comedy Central special dedicated to her late husband. “‘I Ain’t
Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page claimed that Rick Santorum wanted to ban contraception. To their credit, the ABC News “This Week” panel immediately disputed this.
Only in education could you demand a higher pay for churning out an inferior product, but that’s just what the Chicago teachers unions want for doing the jobs they were paid to do, according to the Chicago Tribune. Mayor Rahm Emanuel might
There are several things one might say about “Thin Ice”; unfortunately, some of them must remain unsaid. Set in the wintry Midwest, the movie is a dark, twisty crime thriller that recalls the Coen brothers’ snowbound “Fargo” and John Dahl’s
Controversy has been stirring over a tweet that Jodi Rudoren, the incoming New York Times bureau chief in Jerusalem, sent to anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah this week: As Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic notes, Abunimah “is a player in extremist circles.” That’s a fair assessment. The Chicago-based
Before I debunk Keith Olbermann’s “debunking,” let’s remember what Keith Olbermann said. It’s the standard to which Mr. Olbermann needs to be held: “No Occupy rapes, no cover-up, no apology, no retraction.” That is Mr. Olbermann’s statement and he hasn’t
In light of Current TV host Keith Olbermann’s firm and unconditional Tweet “‘No Occupy Rapes, No Cover-Up, No Apology, No Retraction,” it’s worth remembering that @KeithOlbermann actually suspended his own Twitter account in 2010 over allegations made by many —
A defiant Keith Olbermann — former MSNBC host now working for former Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV — flatly stated in a tweet this afternoon: “No Occupy rapes, no cover-up, no apology, no retraction.“ The message, directed at Washington Times columnist
We call on Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, Countdown host Keith Olbermann and DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas to issue an immediate written and on-air retraction and apology for broadcasting a statement by Moulitsas that called the subject
It seems actor Samuel L. Jackson didn’t care about either the hope or the change Sen. Barack Obama promised back in 2008. The young Chicago politician shared the same skin color as Jackson, and that was enough. The “Pulp Fiction”
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Deric Feacher had a very worthwhile dream. He wanted to establish a charter school in his hometown that specialized in helping disadvantaged and at-risk students earn their high school diplomas. So he did what Florida law required. He took his
Obama’s Alinsky-Style Power Analysis New York Times columnist Jodi Kantor’s book, The Obamas, tries very, very hard to paint a sympathetic picture of her eponymous subject matter–she gets her digs in against the supposedly racist tea party everywhere she can–but every once and a
