From Hot Air For the second time in as many weeks, an upstart candidate has shocked the establishment, only this time it comes as an even greater surprise. While Jon Bruning and Don Sternberg took turns beating up each other in the Nebraska primary for US Senate, state senator Deb Fischer stole a march on both and won handily, taking a “vast majority” of Nebraska counties: State Sen. Deb Fischer won the Nebraska GOP Senate primary Tuesday in a stunning come-from-behind victory that seemed inconceivable...

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A few dozen well-heeled, college educated, really sincere and snappily dressed masque-ers sporting button-festooned North Face head wear, American Eagle T-shirts and bandannas marched with a police escort up through the 11th Ward. From Back of the Yards ( 51st Street) through Canaryville (47th-39th Streets) and Bridgeport up Halsted and past Jackie Schaller’s landmark Chicago dining venue Schaller’s Pump, America’s young spark-plugs of change paraded their V masks, Ninja costumes,...

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Certain innocuous words and phrases are deemed racially inflammatory. One is “plantation,” which emblemizes forced black servitude in the slave-holding antebellum American South.Add to that another word: politics – as in “Plantation Politics.” That phrase resurrects memories of racial subjugation on Chicago’s West Side during the period from roughly 1930 to 1970. That’s when white Democratic political bosses were the unchallenged “masters” of black-majority wards, and, as committeemen,...

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From Gateway Pundit Edward Klein, author of the just released book, “The Amateur”, names Obama’s close ally and friend as the one who bribed Rev. Jeremiah Wright with $150,000. On today’s Sean Hannity show, Klein identified Obama’s crony as Dr. Eric Whitaker, the VP of the University of Chicago Medical Center. The same hospital that employed Michelle Obama.Clearly, the HHS grant for almost $6 Million to Whitaker’s Urban Health Initiative at the University of Chicago Medical Center...

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Could not have planned a more interesting week to return home, even after the excitement of the French elections and endless foie gras. Most noteworthy was Barack Obama’s announcement, at long last, that he now favors same-sex marriage. That came just after the defeat of Indiana’s longest-serving senator, Richard Lugar, in the GOP primary. Both actions have serious implications for the fall election, so let me add my two cents to the mounting pile of commentary on each.Chalk this...

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When is a scandal not a scandal? And when is a story not a story? When the gate-keepers of the media decide so. There is no other explanation why Gov. Pat Quinn’s deal with Northstar is not front page news, and why Quinn is not being measured for an orange jump suit by Patrick Fitzgerald.In case you missed it — and I’m sure you did — it was reported that Gov. Quinn gave a five-year contract worth $300 million to a company that funneled $1.5 million into his 2010 campaign...

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