After oddly blocking access to a fully processed and publicly listed archive of records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), a $160 million school reform effort led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, from 1995 until the end of 2001, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has now agreed to once again allow public access to the records of the CAC.
But a careful review of the press release issued by UIC announcing the reversal of the shutdown leaves several important questions unanswered:
1) Were any of the materials …

I wonder whether Barack Obma’s vetters, Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, knew what they were doing when they settled on Joe Biden. Journalists and McCain opposition researchers must be logging on to Nexis and searching 1987-1988 using the key words “Biden and plagiarism. “ There is a feast of material—I have culled examples from various print and electronic sources– that would make even the most partisan Obama backer question the wisdom of this choice.
Biden, then 44, was forced out of the 1988 presidential race-—he officially dropped out …

Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Sen. Joe Biden, but Rumpelstiltskin.
He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need in order to fulfill its fairy-tale promises.
Obama recently said he would “require that 10 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by the end of my first term — more than double what we have now.” Note the verb “require” and the adjective “renewable.”
By 2012 he would “require” the economy’s huge …

While many employees in the private sector sock away part of their incomes into 401(k)s and IRAs for retirement, full-time government employees can bank on a pension that is guaranteed to support them for the rest of their lives.
But pensions for public workers are a sore spot for some homeowners, who have to foot part of the pension bill through their property taxes. Naperville city pensions – for police officers, firefighters, public works employees and other nonsafety personnel – account for about a combined 19 percent, or $9 million, of …

The Tribune updated its story on the death this summer of Curtis Cooper and the complicity of the property managers United Property Advisors (UPA)that is raking in millions of dollars from the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA).
Yesterday’s article deftly stepped around the ‘alleged’ crumb in the unhappy accident that caused Curtis Cooper’s death – Cullen Davis.
Cullen Davis, like William Ayers, is the wee lad of a well-connected Dad…