Obama and The Chicago School: PR Lesson #1

By: streetwise (Diary)  |  October 9th at 10:47 AM  | 

While Hollywood is undoubtedly pro-Obama, we can take cheer in the fact that it has already produced an extremely useful film for our efforts to understand the Obama phenomenon. That would be the vastly entertaining musical Chicago. Here’s Billy Flynn, patron saint of all Chicago lawyers, giving a demo on how to turn a really bad case into solid gold! And even Ayers’ smoking gun | Read More »

Chicago’s Public Schools- It Takes a Paddle to Raise a Child

By: streetwise (Diary)  |  October 7th at 01:52 PM  | 

h/t Drudge It does look like all that Annenberg money that Barack Obama and his pal William Ayers spent might have been diverted to, um, weapons of @$$ destruction. CBS Chicago reports on a scandal that has broken out involving physical abuse at Chicago pulic schools. CHICAGO (CBS) ? CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini exposed illegal corporal punishment in public schools, and the report is | Read More »

Starbucks Needs Our Help-Especially in Chicago

By: streetwise (Diary)  |  August 8th at 10:54 AM  | 

I am a big fan of Starbucks- both the franchise and the wonderful coffee. Yes, yes, I know that a lot of lefty nonsense percolates in their trendier locations, but they deserve a lot of credit for making coffee fun again.