Sitemap - 2009 - The Barbershop: Dennis Byrne, Proprietor

Judging The Judge in the Cop Beating Case

Chicago Olympics bid team to hold secret meetings with aldermen

Hal Turner's right to speak ends with death threats

How many helicopters will $13 BILLION buy you?

Daley’s Costly Genuflection to The Olympic Overseers

Senator questions firing of 3 inspectors general by Obama administration

Bush takes swipes at Obama policies

Our illusions about health care

A firsit-hand glimpse of the Irianian thirst for freedom

Send Michael Moore contributions for his friends in the UAW

Pro-reform marchers fill Tehran streets - Yahoo! News

GM's deal erased many average Americans' savings

Today is Flag Day

61% of Illinois Voters Say They Would Definitely Vote Against Roland Burris

America to Obama: Stop the spending

David Letterman is a jerk

Bush, Obama and Kenneth Lewis

Here's a quote to remember:

Barney Frank can't take the heat

Remember the 21.5 % prime rate?

If Bush had done it...

More hypocrisy in Congress

In Defense of High Parking Meter Rates

Sanetilli puts it to Geithner

Next reforms should take on term limits for legislative leaders

Obama: We have only begun to spend

Springfield Tax Revolt

Fair is fair

The future family car

Obama gets it right

Group Guilt and The Murders of Long and Tiller

GM expected to emerge stronger after bankruptcy

Get ready for higher taxes at O'Hare

Here's what the Illinois Legislature deserves: Amend the Constitution now

Was Benjamin Cardozo the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee?

Army Recruiter Is Fatally Shot

FAA takes new look at O'Hare noise

Lawmakers Keep Expenses Off-Line

What's this, politics in Obama's Justice Department?

Sotomayor’s Sharp Tongue Raises Issue of Temperament

GM Bondholder Committee Accepts Revised Deal

Classic bad timing

Sotomayor is Catholic; But It’s OK with Big Media

If this doesn't scare the hell out of you...

Statehouse Republicans call on Burris to resign

Sotomayor's role in the controversial New Haven fire fighters case

If you think that Roland Burris looks bad in public...

Obama the cynic

Taking down the auto industry

Hey, Chicago! Want a free airport? / nwi.com

Obama: North Korea disrespects world opinion

Keith Olbermann says the waterboarding debate is over

A Modest (abortion) Proposal

Greenhouse gases drop, lowest in 19 years

Maybe they should have given Maureen Dowd's Pulitzer Prize to Josh Marshall

As the abortion debate turns

Dishonesty or ignorance from the Talker in Chief

Keep Yucca Mountain project alive; stop screwing with Illinois

Notre Dame Students Do Themselves Proud

55% Say Media Try to Make Economy Seem Worse Than It Is

We paid for them, but we can't see them

The Labor Cartel Vs. The Rest of The Country

L.A. Unified pays teachers not to teach - Los Angeles Times

The fantasy of high-speed rail

Why shouldn't congressmen be subject to the same laws as we are?

A jury can acquit you, but...

Congress knew.

"Mistakes were made."

Cost of the Air Force One fiasco: $325,000

Government, organized labor to run the Auto Industry

Bush didn't do it.

It's 10 a.m. Do you know where your Air Force One is?

Torturous definitions of detainee "torture"

Glendon declines commencement honor from Notre Dame

Air Force One photo op panics NYC - finger-pointing begins

Support for Free Market Economy Up Seven Points Since December

No democracy among Democrats

This you've got to see.

High school administrators accused of "censorship" for doing the right thing

60% Say Government Has Too Much Power, Too Much Money

Obama orders $100 million in office supply cuts

Senator's husband's firm cashes in on crisis

Obama Open to Prosecution of Officials Who Cleared Interrogation Tactics

Tea parties define mainstream America

62% in Illinois Say Burris Should Resign

It's about time

This can't be shown often enough

Democrats hope to torch secret ballot

The Obama administration charges juice loan interest rates

Hastert to lobby for Turkey

City 'wolfpacks' to hunt potholes

Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

Big Victory for Daley in Suburban Elections

Notre Dame is wrong

A rift in the Democratic Party?

Maybe Obama should stay in Europe

Thursday April 02, 2009

It ain't working...

Beware of Presidents Bearing Gifts

Will the Senate approve a radical as Health and Human Services Committee?

Bensenville, DesPlaines: Chicago's new 51st and 52nd wards.

No, a thousand times no

Science and public policy

Kansas governor signs abortion law on fetal sonograms

Rahm Emanuel's profitable stint at mortgage giant

Tollway officials OK breaks for violators

Pelosi Vetoes Obama. Media Ignore It.

Haven't we had enough under Blago?

The Sanchez Trial Isn’t The End

Special Olympics chief responds to Obama gaffe

Dodd Draws Voters’ Ire Over Wall Street Pay

Bankruptcy=No Bonuses

City repaves park roads first

Rational thinking about corporate bonuses

Hedge Funds May Get AIG Cash

Fed Data Show Banks Are Lending

G.W. Bush: Obama 'deserves my silence'

It's not all gloom and doom

Another Obama appointee gone, at least for now

Obama Orders Treasury Chief to Try to Block A.I.G. Bonuses

Who can explain it?

Who caused the housing meltdown?

Have voters had enough to push reform?

Reid: Paying income tax is voluntary

Journalism students outclass the pros

CTA's pension fund fiasco

Now they're getting it

Glib Gibbs

A $30-million Obama earmark for the CTA | Chicago Daily Observer

Mayor Daley's great big hush-hush

Mr. Obama's recession

President Barack Obama's budget plan taxes wealthy to aid middle and lower classes

Barney, is there an answer in there?

Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party

Northern Trust to Barney Frank: Kiss my ass.

Chicago gets FAA approval to spend $182 million on O'Hare expansion design

Dist. 214 To Host Special Meeting On O'Hare Ring Road

Jindal comparisons to Kenneth the Page abound online

Obama's automotive history rewrite

Don’t resign, Senator Burris

Obama could be reaching too far too quickly

GM's Plan: Subsidize Our 48-Year-Old Retirees

Obama Road Show Panned in Peoria

Slow drip of financial ruin

Kinky links to O'Hare expansion

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan

Sun-Times Editor Michael Cooke leaving for Toronto Star

In the Company Of Misery…Chicago is #3

Daley hoping to land funds for O'Hare -- chicagotribune.com

Still waiting for a plausible explanation

Haste makes Waste

Here's what's inexcusable, Mr. President

So, mayor, when do we get to see the list?

Support for Stimulus Package Falls to 37%

1st order of business: Dump the free rides

Local TV news blows it

Study questions usefulness of animal-human embryos

Pat Quinn, Illinois' new governor, opposed O'Hare expansion

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S. Increased 0.3 Percent

Best Stimulus: Homebuyers' Tax Credit

While O'Hare declines, Milwaukee's airport rises

Beyond Blagojevich: Illinois is in a state of debt

Neo-Reagan echoes in Obama's speech

Oh, gee, another $163 million no one noticed

Neocon echoes in Obama’s speech

Worst. Inauguration. Ever.

Inauguration Day 2009

Daley to nail down stimulus money for O’Hare Airport expansion

A heart-rending view of a murdered neighborhood

Move on, would ya?

Speaker Madigan to Illinois: It wasn't worth trying

Hail, Burris

Sarah Palin: Will Caroline Kennedy get 'kid-glove' treatment from media? -- chicagotribune.com

Illinois Democrats play a starring role in this mess

The True Cost of Blago's folly