Rahm Emanuel

Months of tension erupted into open hostility last night when the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, called for work stoppage in the nation’s third-largest district, closing classrooms for about 400,000 students.  The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials claim they are only seeking a “fair” contract.  Fair.  Everyone can agree that children should [...]

I am sure everyone has come across the latest flash mob viral video traversing the web.  It is pretty frightening, and seems to be a growing trend of organized looting and random acts of violence.  In this case, a  group of about 20 teenage hooligans walked into a Wicker Park store and helped themselves to more than [...]

Well, it looks like the Obama administration has found another way to bypass Congress and to limit the freedoms granted to the citizens of the United States by the Constitution.  The right to keep and bear arms is on the firing line this week without a national debate or even a vote in Congress.  Secretary of State Hillary [...]

Al Armendariz, a top EPA administrator, described his agencies philosophy of enforcing draconian regulations on oil companies as “crucifying” them.  These comments are just another example of the current administrations war on fossil fuels.  The current battle field seems to be on the oil and gas industry, illustrated by record gasoline prices and the blocking of the Keystone pipeline [...]

A typical weekend comes to an end for Chicago with an all too familiar check of the local crime blotter.  Six dead and fifteen wounded in weekend shootings.  It’s a good thing that Mayor Rahm Emanuel likes to use his buddy Barack Obama’s tactics: blaming the other guy and using fuzzy numbers.  Through the first quarter this year, 120 [...]

With the early spring weather, Chicago has been inundated by a sharp increase in violent crime.  In fact last weekend, St Patrick’s Day weekend, 46 people were shot and 9 killed on Saturday and Sunday alone!  How does Chicago react?  We march to protest the tragic death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.  As horrible as the crime in [...]

Barack Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, in implementing a “wellness” program for City of Chicago employees.  So far, this includes workers at the Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Housing Authority, Park District and the Public Building Commission.  Being well sounds swell, so what has gotten some 45,000 people worried about the new program? “If [...]