
Sarah Palin continues to astonish. Some. Others know bone-deep she is a rare thing. Like me:)
Sarah the Lionheart.
Even gadfly Alaskan Dem Mike Gravel is impressed: Sarah America:)
She is who she is. (Even AP starting [...]


Rain or snow, it's still a go! The call is out for positive loiterers to meet at Sheridan & Leland tonight from 7-8 PM.
In Europe, heading for the Christmas markets on December weekends is very popular, and in larger German cities there are multiple markets for fun. There you can enjoy hearty snacks and warming drinks in a festive atmosphere, and look at a wide variety of merchandise that [...]
It's on! The call is out for positive loiterers to meet at Sheridan & Leland tonight from 7-8 PM.The recent townhall on health care held in U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski's south Chicago district stirred a huge controversy over the experience shared by the woman below. At least one local journalist used the emotiomal exchange to paint local Tea Party participants in a negative light, as insensitive and' [...]
It's on! The call is out for positive loiterers to meet at Sheridan & Leland tonight from 7-8 PM.
A veritable caravan of terrorist sympathizers trooping across the heartland to visit their al-Qaida brethren imprisoned near the small' [...]
A veritable caravan of terrorist sympathizers trooping across the heartland to visit their al-Qaida brethren imprisoned near the small [...]
I had lunch today with Bill Leff, host of WGN AM 720's new Saturday 9 a.m. --1 p.m. show "ChicagoNow Radio" (lest I get on the bad side of Rob Feder, I'll note that both the radio station and the ChicagoNow blog [...]
Located deep in the heart of East Germany, before the fall of the Berlin Wall tourists from the West were unable to visit Dresden, the capital of Saxony.Our world has changed immensely since the 1970s: computers no longer fill an entire room, we don’t play records with a needle, and we can watch a fetus that weighs less than a few paper clips as her heart beats while she sleeps inside her mother’s womb.
The abortion [...]
Over the past year, Capitol Hill has been portrayed as ground zero in the health care debate. But the heart of the fight was never in D.C. Rather, it was in the millions of households across the country, where the uninsured and the underinsured live in fear, knowing that they [...]

Pictured above is the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, the physical heart and soul of the citizens movement for freedom in East Germany. Here, Johannes Sebastian Bach spent most of his career overseeing the musical life of the church, playing the organ, and composing [...]