Waiting For Superman In The Windy City

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 17th at 03:00 PM  | 

We all know who could settle the current public school teacher strike in Chicago. Karen Lewis tells us the delegates could settle it by this Wednesday, provided they like the latest proposal from the Mayor. Mayor Emanuel tells us the strike is illegal and the Cook County Circuit Court could order the work stoppage unclogged with a flourish of the judicial pen. The parents of 350,000 children, who sit at home and in some cases unsupervised, thought they had elected Mayor Emanuel to deal with this sort of situation. Yet one man could make one or two phone calls and turn this whole thing off like a light. Unfortunately, that chair sits empty.

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Chicago Teachers Union Seeing Red

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  September 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

Maybe instead of demanding a 35% pay increase over 4 years, they should focus on increasing student reading proficiency to 35% in that same time.

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Ethelred The Unready Runs Out of Coins For The CTU Danegeld

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 10th at 05:30 PM  | 

I wrote this morning about how the Left is never satisfied with what they have. Regardless of how greedy or evil they believe business to be, they will never accept less than the world. The demands for more and more and more work like a unidirectional ratchet. There is no permanently satisfying these people. There is only paying a Dane-geld.

Now Mayor Rahm Emanuel has the misfortune of playing the role of Ethelred The Unready. I feel no great sympathy for Rahm (he lived large for decades on the public patronage), but he, like King Ethelred, now can no longer pay up. So what happens?

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Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  August 1st at 08:56 PM  | 

Cross-post: TobyToons.com

RICO Suit Against Powerful & Politically-Connected Chicago Teamster Bosses Moves Forward

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 21st at 08:00 PM  | 

In the seedy world of the Chicago unions and the political pawns they control, there is a family dynasty whose name is at the top of heap in terms of power and political muscle. That is the Coli family. Without the blessings of the Coli family and the union they control, Teamsters Local 727 and Joint Council 25 (the governing body of 20 Teamster locals | Read More »

Chicago’s Fiscal Crisis

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  June 12th at 10:01 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech discuss the fiscal crisis facing Chicago, the media’s local condemnation but national endorsement of massive debt burdens, and how Rahm Emanuel can fix the Windy City. We’re brought to you as always by Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do | Read More »

Occupiers, NATO, Chicago, & Molotov cocktails.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 19th at 10:00 AM  | 

Tell me you’re surprised. Three out-of-state men arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid days before the NATO summit were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, providing material support for terrorism and possession of an explosive or incendiary device, their attorney and police said early Saturday. The arrests were the result of a month-long investigation into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails — crude bombs | Read More »

Appellate Court: Rahm Emanuel Bumped From The Chicago Mayor Ballot For Residency Reasons

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  January 24th at 02:13 PM  | 

Rahm Emanuel’s bid to become Chicago Mayor may have been derailed. Politico reports: In an unexpected move, Rahm Emanuel was thrown off Chicago’s mayoral ballot Monday. A panel of appellate judges ruled 2-1 that Emanuel – who is leading in the polls – did not meet the residency requirement needed to be on the ballot. Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s former White House chief of staff, | Read More »

Vulgarity on display: antiwar demonstration in Chicago.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 16th at 01:00 PM  | 

OK. I need to apologize in advance for this video footage, given that it ends with some pretty foul things said about the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister. While I think that it’s important that people see what kind of attitudes and language is considered acceptable by the antiwar movement, I also recognize that actually being exposed to it without warning is unfair to | Read More »

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 »