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Mary Chastain

Mary is the resident libertarian. She covers stories in every vertical, but her favorite thing to do is take on the media. She saw its bias against the right when she was a socialist.

Mary loves the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, tennis, cats, Oxford comma, Diet Coke, and needlework.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 04, 2019 6 Comments
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has insisted her Medicare for All plan, estimated at $20.5 trillion, will only raise taxes on billionaires. Her plan shows otherwise, which has led to people on the left criticizing the plan. Others have shown fear Warren could alienate voters in swing states.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 01, 2019 47 Comments
Former Texas Representative Robert O'Rourke has decided to drop out of the 2020 presidential race. From The New York Times:
Mr. O’Rourke made the decision to quit the race in the middle of this week, on the eve of a gathering Friday of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is not expected to run for any other office in 2020, despite persistent efforts by party leaders and political donors to coax him into another bid for the Senate.

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 30, 2019 58 Comments
Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey) expelled and slaughtered 1.5 million ethnic Armenians. Academics consider it the first modern day genocide due to the Ottoman's articulate organization of said genocide. Turkey has fought against using the word genocide, but anyone with at least one brain cell knows it's a classic case of genocide. Our Congress passed a resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide, 405-111. Three representatives, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), voted present. She provided a disgusting justification.

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 29, 2019 25 Comments
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is Jewish, received the endorsement of anti-Israel Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) over the weekend. Then on Monday Sanders announced his own "quid pro quo" to Israel. He even said he would use American aid to Israel as "leverage" to force the country to "change their behavior."

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 28, 2019 14 Comments
President Donald Trump slammed Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson during his speech at the Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. From The New York Post:
“There is one person that’s not here today. I said, ‘Where is he, I want to talk to him. In fact, more than anyone else, this person should be here because maybe he could learn something. And that’s the superintendent of Chicago Police chief Eddie Johnson,” the president said in the Windy City.
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