Investigators raided the home and office of the Cook County regional schools superintendent Wednesday, carting out laptop computers, cell phones and boxes of files, sources said. Officials with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office confirmed that they have launched a criminal investigation into Supt. Charles Flowers’ office. The Westchester office handles teacher certification and safety inspections for suburban Cook County schools. The investigation comes after a scathing state... 

Here’s the report(PDF). Obama didn’t believe in Arne Duncan’s Chicago Public School system, that’s why he sent his kids to private schools. As you can see, being Barack Obama’s basketball buddy is the road to getting a job: not school performance. For more on Chicago’s public schools. I guess many Democrats don’t mind paying high taxes for bad public schools. More from Steve Bartin More from Crains More from Civic Federation  Read More →

Not only is the “Sun-Times’” Carol Marin a whimpering, simpering ultra-lefty, she is a hard-eyed propagandist calling herself Catholic who adroitly suffocates the truth. Take her Sunday column entitled “Let Bernardin’s spirit guide Obama, Pope.” I will put her paragraphs in italics and follow-up with comments of mine in straight type. “Pro-choice President Obama goes to the Vatican next month to meet pro-life Pope Benedict.” Wrong. Obama is not pro-choice. He is the most pro-abort... 

Two economists are walking down the street when one thinks he sees a $100 bill on the ground.  He points and says “is that a $100 bill?”  The other economist says, “No way.  It can’t be. If it were real somebody else would have already picked it up.”  Corny joke, right?  But it sure helps explain the theory of efficient markets. More than that, it explains how most economists think of the world.  Typically, in terms of very impersonal forces that sum the actions of all people.  It’s... 

Richard Viguerie. The word “betrayal” is hardly ever used in politics these days except by a scarce genus of conspiratorial Republicans who think they taste fluoride in the drinking water… usually a few rich entrepreneurs who feel they’ve bought title to the brand after working in the vineyard during the parched years and chafe that they haven’t been sufficiently revered for their output of money. Nationally, the leading protagonist of Republican “betrayal”... 

Carol Marin has a stern lecture for American Catholics who do not agree with the Democratic Party platform, and an even bolder tone against Bishops who might dare to adhere to the Catechism. Beware, Marin warns us, because you are besmirching Cardinal Bernadin, who on his deathbed proposed that Catholics accept a monopoly of the Democratic Party. Some Bishops have even been against holding Carol’s version of a “dialogue” with President Obama. Lo and behold, some of those same Bishops...