Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a strong statement, in no uncertain terms, against homophobia, targeted at legislation pending in Uganda.
On the eve of World AIDS Day, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday made the strongest statement yet by an administration official that [...]
The Senate health care bill looks better and better every day, and Republican objections ring more and more hollow.
The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the Senate health bill could significantly reduce costs for many people who buy health insurance on their own, and [...]
The Steelers may be having a rough season, but the Keepers of the Cup Pittsburgh Penguins top the Atlantic Division with a 19-9 record. As of today, the Penguins have the most wins of any team in the NHL.
Well, that’s something. Hats off to Mike Rupp for [...]
The remains of a U.S. paratrooper reported missing since early this month in western Afghanistan were recovered yesterday, military officials said.
The body of Army Sgt. Brandon Islip was recovered from the Bala Murgahab River in Badghis province after a local Afghan resident provided information on his whereabouts, officials [...]
On the eve of World AIDS Day, global AIDS and Africa solidarity organizations released a report card today evaluating President Obama’s first year in office-giving the President and his Administration a ‘D+’ for work so far. Advocates also called the White House’s World AIDS Day announcement that the [...]
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the Associated Press has an opinion on the health care reform debate that began today in Congress.
Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack [...]
No kidding. The Ugandan government is moving to kill homosexuals.
The Ugandan government will put to death gay citizens repeatedly caught having sex and throw into jail those who touch each other in a "gay" way, if a new proposed Bill becomes law.
A new Bill, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, [...]
The sad news from the Chicago Tribune:
A 12-year-old girl who was missing for the last two weeks was found dead in aSouth Side alley this morning, her family said.
Family members said they have viewed photographs and identified the girl as Jahmeshia Conner, who was last [...]
In a widely expected move, Charlie Weis is out as Notre Dame’s football coach, athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced today.
Swarbrick cut ties with Weis following a disappointing 6-6 season that ended Saturday with a 45-38 loss at Stanford. Weis has six years left on his contract.
“We [...]
Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, [...]
I just can’t wrap my head around this one.
The Swiss, who already guarantee freedom of religion in their constitution, passed a Constitutional ban on the construction of new minarets.
Somehow, some way, minarets were linked with political activism by the right wing in Switzerland.
From John Aravosis at AMERICAblog:
I’m watching ABC’s THIS WEEK with my mom, and the roundtable has Will, Cokie, Krugman, another big journalist (I forget his name), and this guy I don’t recognize. The unknown guy is making a lot of weird right-wing partisan comments, and I’m scratching my head [...]
As I wrote last March, 14-year-old Gregory Robinson sounds like someone you would have admired.
Hearing gunshots, Robinson tried to protect a 10-month-old and a 4-year-old, and was shot dead. His murder remains unsolved, along with many others.
The murder of 14-year-old Gregory Robinson, a Simeon [...]
Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.
The report asserts that the failure to kill [...]
Unless Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick gets bizarre marching orders from above, today’s 45-38 loss to Stanford will serve as Charlie Weiss’ swan song. In a game full of spectacular offensive drives, Notre Dame’s defense collapsed time and time again to finally surrender the lead to Stanford’s resilient Hiesman-hopeful, [...]
The bad news for Steelers fans from WTAE in Pittsburgh:
There’s word that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will not play Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.
According to FOXSports.com, Roethlisberger has decided to sit out Sunday.
A report on NFL.com indicated that Roethlisberger had yet to decide.WTAE Channel [...]
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
On this chaotic Friday morning in the Slipway Clinic registration room, over one hundred mothers, their crying infants wrapped in traditional lappa cloth, wait on narrow wooden benches for hours to [...]
From the Liberian Daily Observer:
Two Caribbean-registered funds have launched a legal case in London, the UK, against Liberia over a debt that dates back to 1978.
Hamsah Investment and Wall Capital Limited sued Liberia at a British High Court Wednesday for a summary judgment to enforce a 2002 New York [...]
We heard from early this morning that the markets were tanking today because Dubai.
I guess they’re not the only ones who borrowed too much to make neat toys, like the only indoor ski resort in the Middle East.
Since the full-scale of [...]
FOX News Chicago recently released results showing who 193% of Republicans favor for a 2012 Presidential run.
Yes, that’s 193%.
When you give something your all, you give it 100 percent. Unless you work for My FOX Chicago – then you give it 193 percent.
During a Friday broadcast,' [...]
Christopher Barron, a Washington-based campaign consultant and lawyer, wants Dick Cheney to be your next President of the United States. He wants your help to convince the GOP’s last Great White Hope to run for president in 2012.
Yes, I know. At the mere mention of the [...]
I’ve decided to pay more attention to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. I am just finishing This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President. Johnson Sirleaf’s story is amazing, and her memoir offers an incredible history of Liberia.
It [...]
The tragic news from the Chicago Tribune:
Police have recovered a note left behind by Thomas Mangiantini, who they say killed his two young sons, his wife and himself in their Addison home.
The note, one page long and handwritten, was discovered late Wednesday night, hours after the bodies of Mangiantini, [...]
Somebody needs to answer for this. A couple from Virginia crashed a White House state dinner. Yes, that’s the couple above with Vice President Joe Biden. The Secret Service first learned of the security breach when the couple posted pictures from the event on [...]
The report concerning the alleged sexual abuse of children by clergy released today by the Department of Justice, Equality and Reform in Ireland is unequivocal in its conclusions: the Roman Catholic Church engaged in widespread cover-up.
From paragraph 1.10 of the report (emphasis added):
The Commission examined complaints in respect of [...]
An expert commission says the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of priests’ sexual abuse of children because its bishops were determined to protect the church’s reputation at the expense of victims.
Abuse victims have welcomed Thursday’s publication of a government-ordered investigation into how [...]
Classic Criag Ferguson from earlier this year. Enjoy Larry King vs. Levi Johnston.
Gotta love Craig.
[...]Jimmy Clausen recieved a figurative black eye from Connecticut Saturday, losing in double overtime. It would appear an altercation outside a South Bend bar was enough to give him a real black eye.
Starting quarterback and team captain Jimmy Clausen was involved in an altercation outside a [...]
From the November 23 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Where is the sanctimony from the right wing when Rush Limbaugh calls U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu a prostitute? Where is the outrage? Where are the calls for Limbaugh to be fired? Where are the calls for consumers to [...]
From the November 23 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program:
Where is the sanctimony from the right wing when Glenn Beck calls U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu a prostitute? Where is the outrage? Where are the calls for Beck to be fired? Where are the calls for consumers to [...]
President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional troops there even as they cautioned that the final number remained in flux.
The White House [...]
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
I know this is a trial lawyer’s wet dream, but this is just too funny. In government, we are cautioned to watch for the “unintended consequences” of new laws and ordinances.
This is quite the “unintended consequence.” Texas, in an attempt to ban same-sex marriages, may have actually made all marriages [...]
Police are careful, very careful, when it comes to homicide and suicide. We regret that Michael Scott’s death was ruled a suicide.
Such a loss.
The death of Chicago School Board President Michael Scott was ruled a suicide this afternoon by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He died [...]
To read Sarah Palin’s shockingly shallow Going Rogue, one is immediately struck by how nasty and vindictive Palin is, and that her book is little more than a veiled mechanism for settling scores with old foes who have triumphed over her throughout Palin’s lifetime.
Is Palin [...]
Look, we’ve spent plenty of time over the last several years critiquing Cook County Board President Todd Stroger.
Let’s make sure we remember that when it’s time to go to the polls.
Cook County Board president Todd Stroger took some heat for not attending today’s Democratic forum [...]
Golf balls take 1,000 years to decompose, and they release toxic metals into the environment as they break down.
Yet another reason to kick yourself when you lose a ball.
Golf balls are often lost by players, in fact there are a few lost in my own [...]
Washington, D.C.–November 14, 2009.
This was a week for honoring the extraordinary service and profound sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.
Every fall, we set aside a special day to pay tribute to our veterans. But this year, Veteran’s Day took on even greater poignancy and meaning because of the [...]
If Sarah Palin is the 2012 GOP nominee for President, the Republican party platform will be the longest suicide note ever written.
Enjoy your Saturday.
[...]They were only teenagers, and part of adolescence is testing the limits. The other part is learning when you’ve gone too far, sometimes horribly too far, and learning there are indeed limitations.
A scout troop is being investigated by the police after its members shouted death threats [...]
Turns out, Bush’s tax cuts hurt the economy. Wha…?
From the Citizens for Tax Justice:
And yet, many of the lawmakers who argue that the health care reform legislation is “too costly” are the same lawmakers who supported the Bush tax cuts. Their own voting record demonstrates that health care [...]
Jon Stewart responded to Sean Hannity’s apology saying nothing is worth sitting through Hannity’s show. And then there was this, narrative courtesy The [...]
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Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten gets an unexpected surprise right before take a player to school day.
This video is cute. The kid is really a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And, really, who isn’t? The Black and Gold is awesome.
I had quite the [...]
GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan issued his first outright apology Thursday for wrongfully putting two men on Death Row instead of prosecuting the real killer of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico.
DuPage County’s former top prosecutor made his statement after a jury Wednesday sentenced Brian Dugan to death for [...]
Nobel Prize-winning economis Paul Krugman advises, if the United States will not employ a "conventional stimulus," then the United States should consider European solutions to the Great Recession.
Here in America, the philosophy behind jobs policy can be summarized as “if you grow it, [...]
A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. [...]
The Human Rights Campaign is turning up the heat on Congress to pass the federal Employement Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) launching a new Web site: www.PassENDANow.org.
With Congressional Action looming, HRC’s No Excuses Campaign Engaged
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) [...]
I know the report on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart happened a couple of days ago. I just want to [...]
Say it ain’t so, Michael Steele! How could it possibly be true that the RNC’s health insurance plan has covered elective abortion since 1991?
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent [...]
This took me by surprise.
Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views made him a TV lightning rod, plans to announce Wednesday that he is leaving the network, two network employees said.
A CNN executive confirmed that Mr. Dobbs will announce his resignation plans on [...]
Governor Quinn is making the right move releasing 1,000 non-violent offenders from prison.
Gov. Quinn Tuesday defended his plan to release up to 1,000 inmates, a step that begins this week and eventually could save the cash-strapped state $5 million a year.
By the end of this week, 62 [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is enforcing the flavored cigarette ban provision of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) by issuing several warning letters to companies continuing to sell illegal flavored cigarettes to consumers in the United States through their Web sites.
The [...]
President Obama may be accused by the weird right of being liberal, but they don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to presidential pardons.
A lot of things have moved pretty quickly in the Obama administration. Presidential pardons are not among them.
In two [...]
Ugh.
A woman was hospitalized Sunday morning after her boyfriend allegedly bit off part of her ear during an argument in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood.
About 3:40 a.m., police responded to a domestic-related incident in the 4000 block of South Brighton Place, where a man allegedly bit [...]
President Obama issued the following statement on passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.
The Affordable Health Care for America Act is [...]
The Affordable Health Care for America Act passed the house tonight with two votes to spare. One Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana, crossed the aisle for America tonight and voted in favor of the measure. One lone Republican who gets it. Be sure to thank him: 202-225-6636.
Here [...]
Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they’ve secured the 218 votes they need to approve the bill, several party insiders said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor about 6:30 p.m. to say, “Today we will [...]
South Park on Scientology.
Enjoy the video. This is what Scientologists really believe.
I know some may consider this harsh coming from Turning Left. However, it all seems to be true.
This is what Scientologists really believe.
I have yet to hear differently.
[...]Some clarification today from the ACLU:
Dear ACLU Supporter,
Acts of courage on civil liberties should be rewarded. In 2001, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. courageously voted against the Patriot Act—a significant political risk at a time when few others dared to stand up for constitutional rights.
In an email yesterday, through a [...]
Enjoy William Shatner’s poetic presentation of Levi Johnston’s tweets.
It’s so refreshing to discover an actor who doesn’t take himself too seriously. Very funny.
And, yes, the tweets are real.
[...]There’s a headline you won’t see often anywhere.
For decades, Sister Donna Quinn has championed the rights of women to use contraception, seek ordination and end unwanted pregnancies.
The Dominican nun has picketed for abortion rights inWashington, petitioned the pope for a female archbishop and [...]
A leading voice of the gay rights movement took the helm of the Chicago Cubs front office last week, gay newssite ChicagoPride.com reported.
Forty-one-year-old Laura Ricketts is a member of the Ricketts family, whose members completed their purchase of the sports landmark earlier in the year. With the [...]
This is wrong any way you look at it. A young mother of three lost her life Sunday in Chicago.
Jennifer Clark had three children at a young age but tried hard to improve her prospects, continuing her education after high school and working as a home health-care [...]
Look: Decide what office you want to run for, and go for it.
Don’t play games with the voters, like Danny Davis.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis has officially filed paperwork for two positions in the February primary election, saying he’s still unsure which race he’ll pursue.
The [...]
I would love to talk to the officer who wrote this one up.
A woman reported two bags stolen from a bench at the bus stop at the corner of Victory Drive and Main Street shortly after 10 p.m. on [...]
I am a student of Paul Krugman. I believe his The Conscience of a Liberal
should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States. In my humble opinion.
We need the New Deal back, and we need it bad.
President Obama realizes that we [...]
Vikings quarterback Brett Favre ran into a half-full Lambeau Field at 2:37 local time for warmups and was met predominantly with boos by the Packers faithful, who once cheered him for the better part of his 16 seasons here.
There were a smattering of cheers, [...]
While there is nothing to celebrate until job numbers turn around, the President cites the recent dramatic turnaround in gross domestic product as a sign of better things to come. He also applauds the fact that the Recovery Act has now created or saved more than a million jobs.
The President’s [...]
For all of our Sikh brothers and sisters, best wishes on the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, celebrated on November 2.
Sikhism was founded by Guru Nanak, and present day Sikhism is still based on his teachings and those of the [...]
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I read this in the Southtown Star:
Matteson village administrator Napoleon Haney was let go this week after just four months on the job.
Haney, who had a four-year, $120,000 per-year contract was hired in June.
“I don’t really know (why this happened),” Haney [...]
Do you remember Ryan White? Do you remember this young man who died, publicly, of HIV-AIDS?
I think of him from time to time, this brilliant young man who was "done too soon," who endured years of hatred, years of insults — because he got sick.
I remember, years ago, picking my [...]
This is just a section of President Obama’s Facebook feed, courtesy of our friends at Slate.
This is really very good. Go here, please, to see the whole feed.
The Central Intelligence Agency sent Ahmed Wali Karzai a gift.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday outlined fourteen health care reform provisions that would take place immediately, upon passage of the health insurance reform legislation currently making its way through Congress:
BEGINS TO CLOSE THE MEDICARE PART D DONUT HOLE — Reduces the donut hole by $500 and [...]
I admit, I wept openly when I saw this picture.
I didn’t realize policy forbidding the media from photographing our Fallen coming home has been in place since President George H.W. Bush.
Even President Bill Clinton did not attend this solemn ceremony. President [...]
The Southtown Star reports that Homewood, Illinois, is considering a measure to dip into police and fire pension funds to balance the budget. The measure calls for reallocation of 25 percent of property tax revenue from its pension funds to pay for day-to-day operations in its 2010-2011 budget.
That’s operations, [...]
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wasted no time pointing hizzoner’s finger at Cook County Tax Assessor Jim Houlihan over this year’s sharp spike in property taxes. But his wag of the finger ignores a $65 million City Hall property tax increase passed two years ago.
Mayor Richard [...]
We write, "LOL" online when we get a chuckle. Sometimes we turn up the heat and write, "LMAO." And then theres, " LMFAO."
This one falls into the latter category.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger typically attaches a message to bills he signs or vetoes telling lawmakers why he took [...]
The following is from Joe Solmonese at the Human Rights Campaign:
Today, something extraordinary happened. Love conquered hate. After more than a decade, the inclusive hate crimes bill we’ve fought so hard for has been signed by the president and sealed in law.
I cannot overstate the importance of this moment. [...]
“This law honors our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters whose lives were cut short because of hate,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
Washington, D.C.– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, praised President Barack Obama [...]
Senator Dick Durbin wants a public option for health care in the United States. Support the public option by taking this poll:
From Senator Durbin:
The tide is shifting our way.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of activists like you we’ve seen a tremendous shift in the health care reform debate. [...]
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s challenger in Illinois’ 2nd District doesn’t want you to have health insurance if you can’t afford it. Rev. Isaac C. Hayes (is he really a CHRISTIAN reverend???) rejects the so-called public option.
Isaac C. Hayes, the GOP nominee for Congress in Illinois’ Second Congressional District, [...]
I’m on board with Harry Reid’s attempt to round up 60 United States Senators for health care for all. Reid is finally calling for the public option. It’s time to choose the HEALTH OF EVERY AMERICAN above those in Congress boholden to the for-profit health insurance industry.
Want to eliminate some [...]
The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation’s health-care system. Under assault for months, and declared on life support repeatedly in recent weeks, the provision for a [...]
Some people say even bad news is good news, because any news means free advertising.
I don’t buy that. One Gold Coast bar in Chicago has some powerful civil rights groups creating bad press all around.
Two Chicago civil rights groups on Friday called for formal [...]
Honestly, I thought this one was all over at the end of the first period. The Florida Panthers were sitting on a 2-0 lead, both by Steven Reinprecht. The Panthers succeeded in frustrating the Pens through the second period which was a drab scoreless twenty minutes for both teams. So, [...]
When I first heard the other day that Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, was considering a run for the office of President of the United States, I had a bit of a chuckle. It would be quite amusing to see him [...]
Unsatisfied by their last championship and determined to repeat recent history, the Philadelphia Phillies took another step in their quest to win the World Series again.
The Phillies have been in existence since 1883, the longest tenure of any professional sports team in one city, with [...]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair submitted by the University of Minnesota. Additional samples are being tested.
"We have fully engaged [...]
WASHINGTON — Responding to the furor over executive pay at companies bailed out with taxpayer money, the Obama administration will order the firms that received the most aid to slash compensation to their highest-paid employees, an official involved in the [...]
I was listening to Countdown this evening listening to Keith Olbermann pat himself on the back for calling for a "rebranding" of the term "public option." Olbermann suggested calling the alternative to for-profit health insurance "Medicare Part E — ‘E’ for ‘Everyone.’ "
That’s a great idea, but Keith is hardly [...]
As former Governor Rod Blagojevich continues to work on tying the knot with Donald Trump, one of his closest friends and advisors pleaded guilty today and agreed to testify for the prosecution when Blago’s case comes to trial.
Another domino has fallen in the corruption case [...]
A Cook County jury today spared James Degorski of the death penalty three weeks after he was convicted in the murders of seven workers at the Brown’s Chicken restaurant in Palatine in 1993.
He will be sentenced to life in prison.
The jury began deliberations at about 12:20 p.m. after [...]
Yes, Glenn Beck dredges up a blast from the past. Enter Mao Tse Tung.
The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a Hollywood charitable organization, has helped to organize a push in the television industry to encourage volunteerism among the citizenry. The support for volunteerism will be spread across [...]
Jon Stewart takes on the 30 Republican Senators who voted against rape victims in favor of Halliburton.
Yes, this was a vote against rape victims.
Here are the senators [...]
Yes, you heard right. It’s true. Former President George H.W. Bush actually lowered himself to take a shot at MSNBC news anchors Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow “sick puppies.” The nation’s forty-first president made these remarks in an interview with CBS radio purportedly as a means of explaining why there [...]
