It has begun in Chicago

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 05:41 AM  | 

Chicago, where I grew up and lived for 26 years, has been the butt of jokes about corruption and election fraud. This behavior has seeped across the border at times into Indiana. For example 31 people were convicted for voter fraud in the 2003 East Chicago (Indiana) Democratic mayoral primary. At the very least, this year the Illinois Democratic Party and election apparatus has become | Read More »

Fast forward to Obama’s next failure in Copenhagen

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 12:47 PM  | 

Obviously, Barack Obama had a bad day in Copenhagen today with the failure of Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. Of course, many Chicagoans were mixed. (I was negative for a variety of reasons including the inability of the South Side, where I lived for 8 years, to handle the infrastructural requirements) But it is worth pointing out that this story will not go away. In | Read More »