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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By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com
“Someday, somewhere, somebody is going to have the guts to release that stuff,” said David P. Schippers, speaking to me by phone from his office in downtown Chicago Tuesday afternoon.
The “stuff” to which Schippers was referring is surveillance-camera footage recorded in [...]

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United breaks guitars.  That’s the message Dave Carroll shares in the video below more than a year after United Airlines baggage handlers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport allegedly severely damaged the musician’s $3,500 Taylor guitar.  Only after Carroll received no satisfaction from the airline did he record the song and produce the video that should [...]

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Five months ago, I reported that the number of chicago murders in 2008 topped the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq and that the mainstream media had failed to report it.  Now, an update:
Today, the Chicago Daily Herald reports seven Chicago men — all in their 20s or 30s — were shot and killed [...]

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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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