Choice, Chicago Style

While so-called “Republican” lawmakers in South Carolina were busy approving the centerpiece of U.S. President Barack Obama’s “government first” early childhood education program, the president’s former chief of staff was actually providing parents with more market-based choices in Chicago.
According to The New York Times, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is using public dollars to subsidize a growing [...]

Jed Bartlet Addresses Terrorist Attack

It is a testament to the genius of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin that in moments of import many people turn not to the real President of the United States, but to the President created by Sorkin for his hit 1999-2006 drama The West Wing.
In the wake of this week’s terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, a poignant [...]

Stopping Violence Isn’t What The “War On Guns” Is About

By Bill Wilson || “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said. “It’s an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.”
This, in a nutshell, represents government’s response to last month’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Not three days after the tragedy, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein unveiled legislation banning the [...]

Murder Is The Case … Against Chicago

TOUGH GUN LAWS + LEFTIST MAYOR = MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA
Chicago, Illinois has one of the nation’s strictest anti-Second Amendment laws. It also has one of the nation’s most liberal mayors – former Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (who was elected to lead the city in a 2011 landslide).
So … liberal policy and [...]

Chicago Teachers On Strike

400,000 KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL IN THE WAKE OF LABOR DISPUTE
Rejecting a sixteen percent pay hike over the next four years, 26,000 public school teachers and support staff went on strike this week in Chicago, Illinois – leaving an estimated 400,000 school children with nowhere to go.  At issue?  A totally unsubstantiated claim by the local [...]

What “Chick-Fil-A Day” Really Meant

A RAISED MIDDLE FINGER TO THE THOUGHT POLICE
There’s been a lot of back and forth about what last week’s “Chick-Fil-A Day” meant.  To this website it meant very little (unfortunately).  Our founding editor got a pair of leftover nuggets from his three-year-old daughter’s lunch … and no waffle fries.
Talk about underwhelming …
Ideologically speaking though there [...]

Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches: Still Delicious

AND GAY PEOPLE STILL DESERVE EQUAL RIGHTS
We’re not allowed to enjoy them as much as we’d like to (eating healthy is a bitch), but we can say that Chick-fil-A’s chicken sandwiches are among the best things that we’ve ever put in our mouths.
They’re plump, juicy and tasty … and we could literally eat a dozen [...]

Dems Passing (On) Gas

In 2007, then-U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) railed against the administration of George W. Bush when the average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline reached $3.07.
“Drivers are paying a heavy price for the Bush administration’s failure to enact a comprehensive energy strategy,” Pelosi said. “Years of Bush administration policies that have favored big oil [...]

Rich: “The Chicago Way”

By Howard Rich || As Barack Obama’s radical appointees on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continue their jihad against American jobs and the free market economy, many have wondered: From where does Obama get the nerve? Based on what warped ideological mooring does the leader of the free world summon the “audacity” to tell [...]

Blagojevich Guilty

Former Illinois Governor and reality TV star Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on 17 of 20 corruption charges related to his attempts to sell U.S. President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Obama vacated his seat after winning the presidency – leaving Blagojevich to appoint his successor. He eventually appointed Roland Burris to [...]

Could Boeing Really Bail On SC?

With the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) going way, way (way) out on a limb with its unprecedented attempt to shut down Boeing’s South Carolina Dreamliner assembly plant, Palmetto state leaders are understandably anxious about the impact this effort could have on the tens of thousands of jobs the facility is supposed to create.
They’re also [...]

Emanuel Leaving White House

U.S. President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff will leave his position with the administration to run for mayor of Chicago, numerous media outlets are reporting. The move – which was widely expected – will be officially announced at a press conference Friday in the East Room of the White House.
Emanuel will be replaced on an [...]