Every now and then, amid all that doublespeak and gobbledygook that highly paid consultants develop for lefties on the taxpayer dime, the truth slips out. They banned plastic straws. And they were proud of themselves for doing so. Unfortunately, Councilmember Jason Dominguez lowered the veil on the real reason our City Council (like others across…

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Obama in a dress is really off to a great start, spending a lot of money on planning her presidential campaign, while strongly hinting that anyone who isn’t on board is a racist. Sen. Kamala Harris accused critics of “identity politics” of weaponizing the term to diminish issues of race, gender and sexual orientation, pressing…

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There are various numbers making the rounds. Each of them worse than the other as Illinois celebrates Barack Obama Day. Dozens of people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday, police said. One paramedic described the evening as “a war zone.” Since midnight, police said 43 people have been shot, six fatally. Since Friday…

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The media just can’t stop reminding us of how worthlessly biased it is. The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Indira Lakshmanan as executive editor. Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center’s founder and executive director, called Lakshmanan’s appointment a signal of the Center’s commitment to be a permanent presence in American journalism and…

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It was a long road back to space. On July 20, 1969, an audience of 500 million people watched a man set foot on the surface of the moon and plant an American flag in the gray powder of the Sea of Tranquility. In July 2010, NASA chief Charles Bolden, an Obama appointee, told Al…

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We’re not for once speaking of Ocasio-Cortez, but the other newest lefty hero, a nasty woman who ruined the New York vacations of a whole bunch of tourists by staging a protest against immigration law at the Statue of Liberty. The immigrant rights activist who ruined July 4 for tourists visiting the Statue of Liberty…

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MSNBC is an outrage network that runs on tantrums. This time it was Katy Tur’s turn to throw a fit claiming that Trump is endangering the lives of reporters. Tur read some threatening messages that she claimed were inspired by Trump. Republicans have had to deal with threats for some time. Like these threats. This…

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The Newseum is that museum in a town of museums that no one goes to. Because it’s a museum about America’s least favorite profession… the media. The Newseum owners can no longer afford to subsidize the place, they say, and are exploring plans to sell all or part of the building. If the Newseum goes…

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This is quite the cultural moment we’re having here. And two books capture the spectrum of the lefty reading public, “Trump Is F*cking Crazy: (this Is Not a Joke) by Keith Olbermann” and “Hope Never Dies” by Andrew Shaffer. One is an unhinged rant about Trump. The other is Obama fanfic. Both books embody the…

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Happy Barack Obama Day. Illinois government offices remained open Saturday as the home state of former President Barack Obama commemorated his birthday under a new state law. The bill marking Aug. 4 as “Barack Obama Day” throughout the state was enacted without making the date a full-scale holiday. The Illinois House narrowly rejected a plan…

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