Really, I was not planning on writing about Todd Stroger anytime soon. I hadn’t read much recently, and thought, perhaps, that he was simply doing the work of the people. Perhaps he had found his stride.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Tired of getting “pummeled by the newspapers every day,” Cook County Board president Todd Stroger’s administration has [...]
Drew Peterson claims he had an affair with Paula Stark, wife of Len Wawczak, according to a TV reporter who contacted Stark. The Bolingbrook couple said this week that for seven months they wore a wire on Peterson, their neighbor and former friend.
At first, Stark and Wawczak laughed about it, saying it wasn’t true. That [...]
I haven’t written much about drugs in our society, but I’m using a story in the Sun-Times to start putting down some thoughts. I’d appreciate any reader feedback on this one especially.
Remember, this happened in Texas. No, I do not in any way condone what this 18-year-old man did. However, it shows we’re not far [...]
Despite news that some suburbs are crumbling before the Supreme Court’s recent liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is standing firm.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Richard Daley was adamant Friday about Chicago’s intention to defend its handgun ban in court, despite news that a second area suburb was [...]
The Pittsburgh Channel is reporting that Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, 47, has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. Mr. Pausch gave the talk above for his three children when he discovered his condition was terminal.
If you have not seen it yet, please spend time and watch, “The Last Lecture,” by Randy [...]
As Prepared For Delivery
Berlin, Germany
July 24th, 2008
Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
I come to Berlin as [...]
Thousands of people have reportedly been put at risk by the Village of Tinley Park. According to the SouthTown Star:
The Social Security, bank account and driver’s license numbers of anyone who has given his or her personal information to the Village of Tinley Park in the last 10 to 15 years may have been on [...]
I really don’t get this guy at all.
Park Forest resident John Ray still has his box of human bones.
Recall Ray’s tale of how he came by the remains:
Ray said he bought the grisly collection, albeit accidentally, at an estate auction in Shipshewana, Ind. There he bought a tattered, 150-year-old book titled “The History of the [...]
Senator, your people need to chill. Big time.
The Huffington Post reports today the Obama campaign is banning journalists who give Himself bad press:
Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be aboard his plane for next week’s swing through Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England.
The campaign received 200 [...]
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis is scheduled to be grilled publicly in City Hall by aldermen hungry for a scapegoat over the recent surge of violence in Chicago. City Council is up in arms, pun intended, over what Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th) called “unprecedented violence” at this year’s Taste of Chicago.
From the Sun-Times:
Embattled Chicago [...]
