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For several months, some conservative commentators had pointed to Bill Maher suddenly seeing the light and expressing common sense criticisms of the Democrats as being the greatest conversion since St. Paul rode to Damascus. If you accepted this act as being truthful, forget it. Maher's disenchantment with the Democrats was short lived. It had everything to do with Biden being a certain loser in the November 5th election. Now that Harris has usurped the nomination, Maher is back on the Democratic Party reservation. In the latest episode of "Real Time," Maher lauded Nancy Pelosi and permitted her to lie shamelessly...

Today, ABC News reported statements issued by President Biden and Vice President Harris on the third anniversary of the bombing of the Kabula Airport in which thirteen US Marines perished. ABC News omitted to state that neither Biden or Harris actually took part in any memorial ceremonies to honor the fallen Marines. More significantly, the radio network report FAILED to indicated the former President Trump attended a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery this morning and took part in the presentation of wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This is one of the worst examples of media bias...

Chicago: It's a show about nothing. Why would anyone watch it? Because it's on television. Truly a more vapid campaign has never been held in the modern era. Platitudes galore. Policies and substance zero.

Every time that Biden says: "No joke," "Seriously," or "My Word as a Biden," you know that he is lying.

CHICAGO — A number of businesses in the city’s business district have covered windows and doors with plywood to better protect the buildings should demonstrations during next week’s Democratic National Convention turn unruly. Crews with a business called Chicago Board Up Services say they’ve boarded up at least a dozen locations around the West Loop, downtown and Daley Plaza and have plans to work on additional businesses weekend. “If you feel you’re in any type of line where you feel there’s going to be a lot of commotion — we’re not pushing it — we’re hoping the city will be...

To put Chicago's best face on display for the entire nation, Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city officials have begun moving homeless illegal immigrants out of the downtown area. Newly arrived illegal immigrants are being moved out of the downtown shelter to one on Chicago's south side. City leaders claim the move has nothing to do with the upcoming convention. Right. The cleanup started back in June when a large encampment was cleared out. Maura McCauley, managing deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, revealed that the cleanup was "fast-tracked" leading up to the convention but...

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER No. 2024-12 SUBJECT: court operations, new cases, arrests at time of Democratic National Convention IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, pursuant to the Ill. Const. of 1970, art. VI,§ 7(c), effective August 11, 2024, at 8:00 o'clock a.m., and continuously through August 31, 2024, the City of Chicago's police facility at 2452 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, Illinois, is hereby designated as a place of holding court for the purpose of hearing new criminal cases resulting from "multiple arrests" as defined below, whether or not arising from events related to the...

Prosecutors have charged a suburban man with two felonies after he allegedly threw a Big Gulp on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx during an argument near her Flossmoor home. William Swetz “had no idea” who Kim Foxx was when he crossed paths with her as he drove in the 800 block of Sterling Avenue on Friday morning, Assistant Public Defender Catherine Stockslager said during his initial appearance this afternoon. Foxx was on her morning walk when Swetz, 34, encountered her while driving his GMC pickup truck around 10:30 a m., officials said. Courthouse veterans who spoke with CWBChicago on...

Colin Hinkle, a professional drone pilot, noticed the red dye mixing with the green water of the fountain early Saturday morning and saw spray paint on the ground that read, “Gaza is bleeding” and “Stop the genocide.” 'That’s when I realized it was a protest,’ Hinkle said. Buckingham Fountain is “closed until further notice” after the Grant Park tourist attraction’s pool water was dyed red overnight and messages protesting the war in Gaza were written on the ground surrounding the fountain.

On Wednesday, Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy submitted his resignation as party chairman effective July 19th – blaming the rise of the powerful “grassroots,” party infighting and the recent removal of state central committee member Mark Shaw as vice chairman of the party without “due process” as the embattled leader of the IL GOP presided over widespread and massive losses during his brief tenure as chairman. Since November of 2022, this publication has published dozens of articles critical of Tracy and calling on him to resign. And last June, 30 organizations representing over 80,000 conservative grassroots activists from across...

Three Chicago public schools are being renamed in the latest changes aimed at getting rid of racist or otherwise problematic namesakes.

“If you’re a successful governor with $2 billion, where do you go next? The White House,” outlines Pritzker’s fantasy ascendance to the Oval Office, perhaps in 2024 due to the incumbent’s mental and physical decline, or four years later in 2028. Pritzker desperately wants to be a bigger player than he is, and ambitious politicos swaddled in luxury from birth prefer to start at the top. Pritzker’s dark-money organization — Think Big America — is buying him political goodwill all over the country. Are citizens in states across the country hungry for Pritzker’s reforms like the SAFE-T Act, which releases...

A Springfield judge on Wednesday ruled unconstitutional a new law that would have prevented Republicans from slating candidates for the November general election in contests where they had not fielded a contender in the March primary.

A would-be thief fired shots at a priest Monday morning after he caught two men trying to steal a catalytic converter outside St. Ignatius College Prep.

But the election bill given final approval by Senate Democrats Thursday on a 35-3 vote, with 18 Republicans voting “present” in protest, would further help Democrats maintain control in the next General Assembly. Under the measure, local political party organizations could no longer appoint candidates to fill out legislative ballots where the party did not field a primary candidate. Current law allows the appointment process within 75 days of the primary.

As we saw this week, the mob closed O'Hare Airport and travelers had to get out of their cars or miss their flights. Was this a "test run" for the convention? Probably so. Add Midway Airport plus local freeways and moving around the city will be a nightmare. Add to this the shooting, and who in the world wants to go to the convention? The convention hall is going to look like a fortress, and who knows what will break out on the floor? The Squad will be there and that's a formula for madness. My point is that this...

In 1985, Harold Washington issued an executive order that relaxed federal immigration laws under then-President Ronald Reagan, whose administration “aggressively used [the] detention of Central Americans as a device to deter migration from that region, where violent civil wars had caused tens of thousands to flee,” according to University of California Davis law professor Kevin Davis. Since Aug. 31, 2022, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bussed or flown to Chicago nearly 40,000 individuals seeking asylum in an effort to use the welcoming aspects of Washington’s executive order as a political cudgel. On April 14, Mayor Johnson called out the...

Disgraced Chicago Republican Party Chairman Steve Boulton, who embarassingly secured just 24 votes as a write-in candidate during March’s Primary after failing to submit the required signatures to earn a spot on the ballot, was in Springfield on Wednesday meeting with Republican leaders and a local representative of the Illinois Trump campaign. In an email to Chicago GOP committeemen from the state capitol, Boulton wrote: I had a great lunch with the head of the 2024 Trump Campaign in Illinois. Like the folks in Mar-a-Lago, he is very intrigued with the growth in the GOP in Chicago. I advised him...

Chicago Republican Party Chairman Steve Boulton has lost the election to save his 27th Ward Committeeman seat after he was originally knocked off the ballot for submitting an “insufficient number of valid signatures,” after receiving just 24 votes as a write-in candidate – falling far short while facing no opponent, and bringing a humiliating end to a term marked by controversy and losses. 111 signatures were required to appear on the March Primary ballot as a candidate for 27th Ward Committeeman. Boulton submitted a total of 310, but after careful review, it was discovered that only 103 signatures were valid...

The story began March 22, when a group called Behind Enemy Lines organized a protest near Chicago’s City Hall. The group says its purpose is to “stop the U.S.-Israel War Machine” and keep “Genocide Joe” Biden out of Chicago. “People are like, we want to confront some Zionists . . . we want to burn an Israeli flag, we want to take this protest to the next level.” As for the DNC, the group says it aims to “make bruises from Chicago police batons the 2024 back-to-school Fall fashion.” Democrats can’t be eager to have Joe Biden’s moment turn into...