Author: Jimmy
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Golf Ethics
Here is a golf ethics question for you. What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes. You had the honor and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron…
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Naomi Davis: Issues in the African-American Community
Local community organizer Naomi Davis put together a top-ten list of issues impacting the African-American community in her area of Chicago. Not a bad list: NORFOLK & SOUTHERN/CREATE. Opportunity Of A Lifetime. Multi-billion, multi-decade south side economic impact with America’s richest companies without a single negotiated community benefit/jobs plan. CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACKNESS. Gulag Economy. Jim…
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Labor Unions and Politics
On March 10 there was this story in the LA Times I meant to write about: Labor unions rethinking their role in politics As top union leaders gather in Florida on Tuesday to determine labor’s political strategy this year, the influential AFL-CIO appears poised to endorse President Obama’s reelection — despite some lingering dissatisfaction with…
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Occupy Threatens & Sprays St. Louis
Following a confrontation between Occupy protesters and local police last Thursday, vandals have hit the city with frightening pro-Occupy graffiti. Buildings, walls, and statues have all been defaced. The city’s public safety director woke up to the words, “Blood on your hands,” sprayed on his front steps. Similarly, a hundred-year old statue now has the…
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Chicago State Missing $3.8M in Equipment
Chicago State University has been unable to locate $3.8 million worth of equipment, including 950 computers that could contain confidential information, according to a state audit. via Chicago Tribune. Doh! The story reflects that most of the equipment was actually purchased, and pilfered, during the Daley administration. I hope that this was discovered as a result…
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Race and the Media
The number one post (in terms of views) on this blog thus far has been the story about the boy from Kansas City, who happened to be white, and was walking along and set on fire by two other kids, who happen to be black. This story came up again in the comments on a…
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Fast-n-Furious Catches and Release Top Suspect
I’m sorry this story is a few days old, I’ve been busy. As a courtesy the LA Times didn’t mention Eric Holder’s name in this article. Seven months after federal agents began the ill-fated Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, they stumbled upon their main suspect in a remote Arizona outpost on the Mexican border, driving…
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Obama’s Selective Service Card Forged?
Say it ain’t so Joe. “America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression of his findings of a likely forged presidential birth certificate and Selective Service Card “probably the biggest censorship blackout in the…
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IMF Chief: Oil Supply Matters
Yesterday I wrote about the latest meme to come out of the White House: that the president cannot control oil prices. This is of course ridiculous. Should the president choose a path that would increase supply — even if not immediately — the price of oil would go down. Everyone knows that while the oil…
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Chicago Police Supt. Promises To Curb Gang Violence
Garry McCarthy says the intelligence is there. It’s just a matter of getting the information to beat officers so they can anticipate a retaliatory gang shooting. “We’re going to get our head around this thing and we’re going to turn it around is what it boils down to,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday. “If we were…