Ahh, I remember it so well; one year ago today, CNBC’s Rick Santelli called for a ‘Chicago Tea Party’ from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. For that, he deserves a nationwide round of applause. The video below captures the moment, including Santelli’s call for President Barack Obama to put up a web site [...]
Santelli Deserves Nationwide Round of Applause
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments
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Chicago Political Machine Never Stops Working
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Above (left to right): Rod Blagojevich, Jesse Jackson Jr., Barack Obama and David Axelrod. One year ago today, Rod Blagojevich became the first sitting Illinois governor to be impeached and booted out of office by the Illinois Senate for, among other things, allegedly trying to “sell to the highest bidder” the U.S. senate seat once [...]
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Girl Spends $5,000 to Fight McDonald’s Lawyers
January 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Three recent headlines convinced me that the Happy Meal® has been replaced with the Politically-Correct Meal® at your neighborhood McDonald’s®. Recently, I came across the story of Lauren McClucky, a big-hearted 19-year-old who lives in the Chicago area and has been using “McFest” as the name for her charitable concerts that raise $30,000 for Special [...]
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There’s Gonna Be Hell to Pay on Election Day 2010
January 1st, 2010 · No Comments
One year ago today in my post, Democrats Adopt New Marching Orders, I cited predictions offered by political pundits and prognosticators about how the Chicago Political Machine behind Barack Obama was working hard to lower expectations in advance of Inauguration Day. I never imagined a president could live up to such lowered expectations in such [...]
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Top 10 Editorial Cartoons of 2009 – Part Two
December 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Thanks to contributors David Donar at Political Graffiti, Curtis D. Tucker at Curtoons.com and “Michael” at the now-defunct My Personal Litmus blog, I was able to share a great number of fantastic editorial cartoons. Below, I share the second five of my Top 10 favorites of 2009 in no particular order. Click on any image [...]
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Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Steve Chapman Newest Resident in ‘State of Denial’
October 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
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Attorney Says Unedited Versions of the Oklahoma City Bombing Surveillance Tapes Are ‘Somewhere’
September 30th, 2009 · 18 Comments
Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty. All rights reserved. Reprint permission required. 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 [...]
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