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From Bill Donohue
The State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have been infinitely more concerned about punishing whistleblowers than pedophiles. Aurelia Fedensin, a former senior inspector general investigator at the State Department, said Gutman “routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children.” Evidently, lots of people knew about it and did nothing. Gutman raised a half-million dollars for...Read the full story »
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Urban Partnership Bank has accomplished something its predecessor, ShoreBank, never did: It’s obtained federal recognition as a minority depository institution.
The $1 billion-asset bank based on Chicago’s South Side is officially a minority lender despite an ownership dominated by Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Urban Partnership Bank obtained the designation from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. by virtue of the fact that more...Read the full story »
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During the news about the Obama regime spying on the press, don’t neglect this question: Why hasn’t the Inspector General asked John Chase and the Chicago Tribune who in the federal government is leaking sealed information to them?
Why, after assigning a host of federal agents and spending piles of federal dollars to investigate Rod Blagojevich and corruption in Illinois, did Chase and the Tribune get to pull the plug on the federal wiretaps with impunity? Is anyone...Read the full story »
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No, I’ve not had a religious epiphany, and maybe it’s a terrible pun, but I’m suggesting an updated version of the US Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities—known as the Church Committee, after its chair, Senator Frank Church, a liberal Democrat from Idaho, of all places.
That committee was created to examine such stuff as assassinations, domestic spying and related over-reach by the CIA and other top-secret government agencies. Its...Read the full story »
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As the Chicago Blackhawks started their seven game conference championship (final four) series with the Los Angeles Kings, the national sports punditry had decided it was going to be hard for the Hawks to advance to the final round of Stanley Cup play.
LA is just too big and punishing, they said. In Biblical terms (as in Numbers 13), the punditry had crossed over into the Promised Land, taken one look at the giants over there and decided it was too scary to go fight them.
In the more...Read the full story »
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Support for the hot-button issue could drive away the more conservative faction of the party in a contested Republican primary. That faction already drove out its former GOP chair after he announced his support for gay marriage. Rauner said earlier this week that he’s toured the state and people were concerned about education, the economy and jobs.
“My view is irrelevant,” Rauner told the Sun-Times on Wednesday about his personal view on same sex marriage. “Why does that matter?”
During...Read the full story »