If Emanuel Is Out, Who’s Next Chief of Staff?
The fire-breathing — as his reputation would have it — Chief of Staff of the Obama Administration has seemed to keep a low...
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“The Kangaroo Touch” Revives Australian Preemie
Called “the kangaroo touch” in Australia and also “kangaroo care,” the method used by Kate Ogg in Sydney last spring worked almost like...
NBC Nightly News Williams Grills Obama on Birth Certificate, Religious Affiliation Polls
NBC’s Nightly News last Sunday, August 29, featured an interview in New Orleans on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, between reporter Brian...
Chilean Miners Pray and Sing National Anthem to Keep Up Morale
Thirty-three miners, who were trapped some 2,300 feet underground in northern Chile since August 5 when the main access tunnel collapsed where they...
Peace Activists Attempt to Stop Iraq Deployment at Ft. Hood
According to the Daily Paul website, early Monday morning, August 23, five anti-war protesters wearing black shirts that read “Disobey,” attempted to block...
Pentagon Denounces Taliban Claims About PFC Bergdahl
According to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials, missing U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, has become a Muslim...
Former D.A. Garza Indicted in Texas for Misuse of Funds
Joe Frank Garza, a former district attorney for the Texas counties of Brooks and Jim Wells, was indicted late Wednesday, August 18, by...
Hot Time at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern
Just after midnight on Saturday, July 24, at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern — “Where everyone is treated like a regular” — a very...
Dan Rostenkowski, R.I.P.
Famous for once saying that in Chicago, politics is “a blood sport,” former U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, 82, passed away on August 11...
Britain’s Marie Stopes International Offers Free Abortions as “Job Perk”
As one of the agency's major abortion providers, Marie Stopes International receives about £30 million a year from Britain’s National Health Service towards...
Public Support for War in Afghanistan Falls
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy declined from 48 percent in February...
Praying Pro-life Student Arrested in Chicago
On Saturday, July 3, 25-year-old Northwestern University graduate student Joseph Holland was arrested in downtown Chicago for praying the rosary outside a Planned...
Oldest American Family Farm Goes Up for Sale
Though there is a slight dispute about the “oldest” family farm title going to the Shirley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia (founded in...
Battling the Oil Spill in Battle Creek, Michigan
There now is an oil leak in the northern part of the United States about which to worry — in Battle Creek, Michigan....
In Elmhurst, Illinois, the “Rolling Eyes” Have It
What started as an ordinary meeting of the Elmhurst, Illinois Finance, Council Affairs and Administrative Service Committee on the evening of May 17...