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• Gingrich warns unstopped, libs will "turn country into Detroit"

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  Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich was in the Chicago area Friday afternoon, fundraising for another former U.S. House Speaker Denny Hastert's son Ethan, who's vying for the 14th CD Republican nomination in the February 2 2010 primary. 

  "If we're not careful, the other side is going to turn the whole country'" [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 9:18am EST
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• Abortions jump in Illinois, especially in Chicago area

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  by Bill Beckman

  While no one was watching, the Illinois Department of Public Health posted the latest abortion statistics for the year of 2008. Sadly, the numbers establish an upward trend for Illinois abortions since the low point of 2003, thus discounting the slight drop in 2007.

  A total of [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  by Bill Beckman

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• Michigan Christmas tree farm

  —Marathon Pundit

  Many of the Christmas trees on sale in the Chicago area come from Michigan.
  
  I spent Labor Day weekend in Three Rivers, Michigan, near Kalamazoo. During a long run, I came across the Newland Tree Farm. It specializes on high-end trees, pictured on the left are [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

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• Accuracy in Media on Robert Creamer

  —Marathon Pundit

  I thought that no one outside of the outside of the Chicago area noticed that Robert Creamer, the felon husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), attended last week's state dinner at the White House.
  
  Accuracy in Media has this to say:
  
  The media furor over the [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

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• Chicago-area jobless rate jumps to 10.4%

  —The Sixth Ward

  AP:
  The jobless rate in the Chicago area rose to 10.4 percent in October.
  ...
  Chicago's jobless rate includes the city, Naperville and Joliet.
  Sorry for the two bleak stories I posted on Thanksgiving Eve, but those two items caught my attention this evening. Hopefully we can have [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  

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• Chicago Homeschool Holiday Craft Fair

  —Green Parent Chicago

  
  

  Members of Chicago area homeschool groups will participate in a Homeschool Holiday Craft Fair next month at the Ethical Humanist Society at 7574 N. Lincoln Ave. in Skokie.

  The fair is free and takes place:

  Friday December 4, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
  Saturday [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:31pm EST
  by Christine Escobar

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• Humor: Holder and Obama's circus

  —Marathon Pundit

  It's November, and that's the month Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus comes to Chicago. So it makes sense that fellow Chicago area blogger Rev. Right of America is an Obamanation has some PhotoShop fun with Bungling Brothers and Obama & Holder Terrorist Circus.
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

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