Also inaccurately accuses veteran of seeking to take over the government by force and crowd of hurling racial insults...
Just a little more than an hour apart, but world's away in leadership are Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker. Thursday, Walker announced today that the budget he will sign this summer will include "significant" cuts to the income tax rates....
Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief-of-staff for Obama, recently condemned the NRA's Wayne LaPierre for suggesting that armed guards in schools could be appropriate in some situations. Yet, it appears that Rahm sends his own children to a school protected by an armed...
The upcoming special election to replace embattled Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr's Illinois seat has been provided with a small miracle in the form of an African-American *conservative* candidate who is running for the seat. Paul McKinley, whose grassroots work to challenge Black leadership in the wartorn...
Cook County president Toni Preckwinkle has been on a mission to punish legal gunowners of late. Preckwinkle, a mentor to President Obama, made headlines earlier this year when she said that "Reagan deserves a special place in hell." After decreeing in a Wednesday press conference that a...
President Obama has announced he will travel back to his adopted hometown of Chicago to vote early on October 25. This will be the first time a presidential candidate has not voted in person on Election Day. Michelle Obama voted absentee a few days ago. Michelle...
The Chicago Tribune announced this morning they are endorsing fiscal conservative Tim Wolfe over Cong. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th District congressional race in Illinois. This is huge. Schakowsky, endorsed by the Trib in 2010, has been shut out by her former endorser. They are saying her dogged...
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is running for reelection in Illinois’s second congressional district. Except he’s not exactly running. His name is on the ballot. But Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. hasn't made a campaign appearance since the primary. The Democratic congressman from Chicago is running for re-election for...
Chick-fil-A opponents declare, um, victory?...
It appears the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which held a solidarity rally this Saturday afternoon, is facilitating a rejuvenation of the Wisconsin-style protest movement. The scene at Saturday's rally, held in anticipation of Sunday's yes-or-no vote on the latest negotiated agreement, seemed more like a...
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has announced their strike will continue into Friday--despite an offer from Jesse Jackson to mediate--after CTU President Karen Lewis said she's "optimistic, but we're still hammering things out." At the heart of the standstill is accountability: merit pay, the evaluation process,...
Just after the Chicago Teachers Union released a statement on its website declaring their intent to strike Monday morning, the union published a solidarity statement from feminist and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Gloria Steinem as the top item on their website. In...
19 people were shot in Chicago between Thursday evening and Friday morning, with 13 of the 19 shot in a span of just 30 minutes. Chicago's murder rate has gone up 31 percent since 2011when Mayor Rahm Emanuel was elected. The Chicago Sun Times reports that...
A whistleblower former employee of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISACorps) has revealed that she was coerced to attend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH partisan forum with Nancy Pelosi, pose for photo ops, given instructions on loading students up with student debt, and then reimbursed travel...
Chicagoans are used to politicians running roughshod over our city. It's a war zone today, but not just from the drug cartel and gang shootings that are ravaging our neighborhoods. The politicians from the local up to the federal think they're little kings, who use...
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