Ahhhh, the good old days. I remember when the current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the late “Da Mayor” Richard J. Daley, was just a young whippersnapper trying to earn fame and fortune in the insurance business. The press got wind that a very lucrative multimillion dollar insurance contract for the city of [...]
Okay. Let’s try this. Great white tap dancers: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Bob Fosse. Great black tap dancers: Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, James “Jimmy Slyde” Godbolt, Barack Obama. I’m guessing that there is probably no way to include tap dancing and this history-making first black president in the same sentence [...]
Welcome my friends, welcome to the machine. With deference to Roger Waters for the slight edit, this opening line from the classic Pink Floyd tune seems perfectly suited to the exposition of Chicago machine politics coming out of the White House. In one of THE most Orwellian acts yet to come from this administration of [...]
Question: At what point do you become responsible and stop being a victim?Answer: When you’re a Democrat, apparently never. It hasn’t taken long for the political party in control of both houses of congress and the White House to find some new way to claim they are the victim. They tried to claim they were [...]
“Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart. And you’ll never walk alone.” So goes the lyrics to the Rogers and Hammerstein classic. So goes the now infamouse dethroned governor of the state is Illinois. The Illinois General Assembly may have sent Big Rod Blagojevich packing but be certain that Rod will not walk [...]
