Huffington Post editors said they confirmed that Fowler had reported Obama’s statements precisely and that their citizen reporter had conducted herself properly
The story was reviewed up the website’s editorial ladder all the way to founder Arianna Huffington. Vacationing on a yacht in Tahiti, Huffington gave her assent.
Read More...Well isn’t it nice for his constituents to see the REAL Jeff Schoenberg in action? Now that his Democrat cronies have all the power in Springfield, State Senator Jeffie (9th,D) doesn’t have any need to coddle his State Senate district with crumbs of representation – this week he stomped on a compromise that Northfield Village President John Birkenbine has been negotiating for several years and slammed a couple of extra lanes (with a cost of $4 million to state taxpayers) along Willow Road. So much for the hard work of one of the few remaining politicians with integrity (Birkinbine, that is). Northfield elementary school children who need to cross Willow to get to school now will get a tunnel; let’s hope there won’t be any undesirable pols skulking in the gloom down there.
Read More...Words Matter and so do the things that we do. In last night’s debate, Senator, you said that Senator Tom Coburn was like a domestic terrorist and punk.
Senator Barack Obama – On the Left -The aging Cub fan, with happening ear jewelry, is domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; the punk in the mug-shot knowing Daddy has the bail, juice and lawyers to get him off is a domestic terrorist bomber Billy Ayers; the Doctor holding the Baby is Senator Tom Coburn.
Read More...This year marks the 40th anniversaries of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Democratic convention uproar. Having worked with King and played an active role in organizing the convention demonstrations I will take some note of these in coming columns.
But it is also the 25th anniversary year of Harold Washington’s hard-fought nomination and election as Chicago’s first black mayor—four and a half Camelot years for the city’s black and progressive white communities, riddled with historic significance.
For several weeks now I’ve been attending a series of panel discussions, exhibitions and meetings to relive or analyze the event. Some of course composed of sentimental fluff, others offering excellent retrospective insights into sociopolitical Chicago.
One permanent product is a fine book of HW photos by Antonio Dickey and Marc PoKempner with an elegant summation of the years by Salim Muwakkil. (Full disclosure: there’s even a photo ... Read More...
