January 25, 2012

Chicago Lunch workers' union protests healthy lunches

This coming on the same day as we're are awaiting a speech about healthier options by First Lady Michelle Obama. Monica Eng writes in the Chicago Tribune: Workers who serve meals in Chicago Public Schools say the majority of kids...

July 22, 2011

Rahm blows his top

For quite a while, Rahm Emanuel has been able to successfully present himself as someone far removed from the politician who once mailed a colleague a dead fish and  had screamed "you're dead" during a meeting.  The old ...

July 8, 2011

The friends of Michelle O

One of Michelle Obama's closest friends (she went on the trip to Spain after all with the Obama girls and First Lady) has been appointed to Chicago's Landmarks Panel.  Oddly, no one appointed by Rahmbo is an archite...

July 4, 2011

Business as usual in Chicago

The Tribune buried this!  Rahmbo rewards attorney who kept him on the ballot and honors the Speaker of the General Assembly by appointing his son (who is brother of the Attorney General)....

May 28, 2011

The perverse left down under

Aussie David Hicks, accomplice of the Mumbai bombers and former resident of Guantanamo Bay, is now the darling of Australia's left.  Never mind the fact he belongs to the group behind the bombings.Nick Bryant of the BBC reports: To some it ...

September 1, 2010

Government scientist: assume blame for humans in extreme weather events

Objective science is thrown out the door with much "climate research. We've always suspected so, but now a government scientist admits the game.This is part of an article in the British Magazine, New Scientist:"WHEN extreme weather strikes,...

June 23, 2010

Obama in-law lands plum post

The Smithsonian is following the Chicago Way with its hire of Konrad Ng, Barack Obama's brother-in-law. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports:A University of Hawaii cinema professor, who is also President Barack Obama's brother-in-law, is serving as a...