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Anne Segal

Anne Sorock Segal is a market researcher and president of The Frontier Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to increase demand for freedom and revive a unifying American character using cutting-edge behavioral science methodologies.

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 10 Comments

President Obama spoke to students at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago this afternoon, using the occasion to address a basket of issues, including gun control, raising the minimum wage, education spending, and the overall state of our communities. During the 26-minute speech, Obama said that he...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 15, 2013 19 Comments

Federal charges expected to be filed today in DC reportedly would implicate his wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, resulting in tax fraud charges against her. Sandi had been receiving a $5,000 per month check from the Jackson Jr campaign for consulting over the course of several...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

Last night I attended another candidates forum for the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having attended quite a few by this point, my main takeaway is that the people of the Second District have a sorry, sorry...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 13, 2013 27 Comments

Former Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who was killed at a Texas gun range on February 8, was laid to rest Tuesday at the Texas State Cemetery. On Monday, 7,000 people attended a memorial service in his honor at the Cowboys Stadium. Many people are saying Kyle...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 12, 2013 22 Comments

Sarah Palin has taken to twitter to further confuse and confound what she has termed the "idiot media," no doubt including Washington Post journalist Suzi Parker who erroneously reported that the former Governor would be joining Al Jazeera. The Washington Post's Suzi Parker had failed to...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 12, 2013 12 Comments

The House will consider the reauthorization of the Violence against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) today, the same day the Senate voted 78-22 to approve the renewal. In expressing optimism that similar legislation would pass in the House, Senator Leahy pointed to a letter sent from...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 11, 2013 27 Comments

The New York Times has now mapped all the ways Chicagoans, who arguably have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and only recently were allowed to possess them, get their guns. The maps and accompanying article are an attempt to spin the...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 08, 2013 10 Comments

Jesse Jackson, Jr., the man some of us came to know as "Senate Candidate Number 5" for his involvement in the attempted crooked deal to replace the senate seat Barack Obama left vacant, reportedly has signed a plea deal. The terms require him to plead guilty,...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 08, 2013 18 Comments

The Professor wrote about the Illinois judge Cynthia Brim who had been suspended since March 2011, charged with assaulting a sheriff's deputy and throwing her keys as she entered the courthouse where she worked in downtown Chicago. This week, Brim was found not guilty by reason...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 06, 2013 14 Comments

More than in years past, it seems right to revisit our past great leaders like Ronald Reagan, and, last week, Andrew Breitbart, on what would have been their birthdays. Today would have been Ronald Reagan's birthday; he was born February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. I was...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 01, 2013 19 Comments

Today would have been Andrew Breitbart's 44th birthday; he passed away last year on March 1, 2012. I think there's another facet of his experience that we ought to appreciate on his birthday. Andrew spoke often of his conversion from living a life outside of the political...

Posted by Anne Segal on February 01, 2013 26 Comments

Last Sunday, I attended a candidate forum with those seeking to replace Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr. at Reverend Wright's former church (he's still Pastor Emeritus), Trinity United Church of Christ. 22 candidates have filed to replace the mentally ill congressman, 17 Democrats and 5 Republicans....

Posted by Anne Segal on January 31, 2013 7 Comments

A study entitled "In the Land of the Free, Interdependent Action Undermines Motivation" published this month from Stanford University researcher MarYam Hamedani concludes that appeals to community motivation, what they call "interdependence," are less compelling than independent behaviors when addressing social challenges. In other words, if you're...

Posted by Anne Segal on January 30, 2013 10 Comments

There are reports that the Israeli airforce conducted an overnight airstrike on targets along the Syria-Lebanon border. Although the Israel Defense Forces have declined to confirm, sources say that the targets may have been trucks carrying anti-aircraft missiles being transported to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Lebanese...

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