Bob McCarty Writes

Steve Chapman, a member of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, has established residency in the State of Denial, one of the seven mystery states then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he had visited while on the campaign trail May 9, 2008.
In an editorial published today, Chapman writes:
Obama, it’s true, has done things that involve enlarging [...]

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Guess which online publication saw fit to mention my work in the same virtual breath as writers at The Swamp (The Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau blog), the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post and the Democratic Underground?
Give up yet?  Click on the graphic above right to see the answer, then come back.
Yes, thanks to a [...]

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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 pending against [...]

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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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