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  • Biggest Celebrity Salary? Take a Wild Guess

    You’ll never guess.  Really.  You won’t. Take a wild guess as to who it is.  I’ll give you a hint… it’s a sign of our society going over the cliff. The answer is here: Biggest Celebrity TV Salaries – Business Insider.

  • College Suspends Obama Pledge Professor

    UPDATE:  Last week we heard about the college prof. who made her students pledge to vote for Obama. A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the upcoming elections. via Campus Reform. Justice?  Probably.

  • ‘Warp drive’ May be Feasible

    A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.  … Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back…

  • Did Joe McGinniss Condemn an Innocent Man?

    MacDonald signed a contract giving McGinniss exclusive rights to his life story, and so McGinniss was given unprecedented access to the defense team – living with them, working with them, eating with them. But when the guilty verdict came down, McGinniss did a one-eighty on them. Apparently, falsely convicted men don’t make for good books.…

  • Why It’s Impossible to Run a Business Without Breaking the Law

    Shakedown in Chicago is commonplace.  It’s not just at Pete’s. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHxcfQfL_M]

  • CTU Deal Will Lead to School Closings & Layoffs

    Four years of up-to-the-limit property tax increases for Chicago homeowners and businesses. Closing scores of under-enrolled and underperforming schools. Thousands of layoffs of teachers and other school staff. More cuts to the central office. That’s what could await the Chicago Public Schools, thanks to the tentative agreement between teachers and the district that is expected…

  • Who’s a Hero?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JaFRPbTpA8

  • Shakedown on the West Side

    PR — For Immediate Release SYNOPSIS:  LOCAL THUGS AND A QUESTIONABLE ALDERMAN MAY STOP CONSTRUCTION OF GROCERY STORE IN A FOOD DESERT. One of Chicago’s food deserts may not be getting a grocery store after all.  After years of wrangling, Pete’s Fresh Market broke ground on a site located at Western & Madison on Chicago’s…

  • Professor Makes Class Sign “Vote for Obama” Pledge

      A citizen, whose nephew attends Brevard Community College, reports that he brought home the below bookmark pledging to vote for President Obama. The bookmark and pledge was handed out during a mathematics class taught by Assistant Professor Sharon Sweet. This occurred “while the student was in class at the request of his College Algebra…

  • Chicago Teachers Fear Wave of School Closings

    Striking Chicago teachers fear that once they approve a new contract with the school district and end their strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will go ahead with dozens of school closings because of falling enrollment and poor academic performance. via Reuters. Really?  Well what do they think the mayor should do when the city is shrinking…