Bob McCarty Writes

BREAKING NEWS: Ace of Spades is reporting tonight that a man was arrested after attempting to light his shoe on fire during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Denver this evening.  On top of all that, the man’s name is Mohammed al Modadi, and he’s reportedly a vice-consul at the Qatari embassy. Developing… UPDATE #1 [...]

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A tragedy took place on Chicago’s South Side early Friday morning. Who is to blame for it is, perhaps, the question mostly ignored by the Windy City’s two major dailies. Reports this morning in both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune offer mostly-basic details about the tragedy: Trenton Booker, 13, is dead and charges are [...]

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Representative of the mainstream media, the front page of today’s Chicago Sun-Times features a photo of an angry-looking President Barack Obama above the all-caps headline, OBAMA’S OUTRAGE. The headline, in turn, leads to a Lynn Sweet article about Obama’s “somewhat tardy” outrage over AIG paying $165 million in bonuses to some of its employees. If [...]

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In a post Wednesday, I reported that a joint anti-war protest and immigrants rights rally was set to take place today in Pilsen, the heart of the Chicago’s Latino community.  And it did.  Unfortunately, it appears most Chicago media outlets seem content with providing little or no coverage of the rally.  Perhaps, it’s part of [...]

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If the fact that an anti-war protest is set to take place this weekend in Chicago is any indication, President Barack Obama seems to have let down some of the very people he once counted among his most-ardent supporters: the anti-war set.  But that’s not the most important aspect of this post. This is: Only [...]

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He’s been called, “The One” and “The Messiah,” so I cannot say I was surprised by a headline I read in yesterday’s Chicago Sun-Times: Obama beats out Jesus as America’s hero That headline, spawned by the results of a recent Harris Poll®, simply reflects the fact that President Barack Obama receives more frequent and favorable [...]

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Typical of a slimy politician, it took only three weeks for Chicago’s Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) to do a “180″ and reverse himself on the matter of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s (D-Ill.) appointing Barack Obama’s replacement in the U.S. Senate. On Dec. 9, the day FBI agents arrested Governor Blagojevich on corruption charges, the Chicago Sun-Times [...]

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