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I blogged about the mortgage problems of South Side Chicago congressman Bobby Rush last week. Well, in addition to the possibility of losing his Chicago home to the repo man, his Michigan condo, a vacation home in a gated community, is set to be sold Thursday by a Michigan bank because Congressman Rush hasn't been making payments on that mortgage either. The Chicago Sun-Times has the story here. Yes, a gated community! Rush, a fervent supporter for slavery reparations, is a member of the House of Representative's Progressive Caucus, a far-left group dedicated to "social justice," equality and the like....

CHICAGO -- Chicago television anchorman Walter Jacobson was arrested early Saturday for allegedly driving while drunk, running a stop sign and obstructing traffic in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, police said. Jacobson, 66, was observed by an officer "staggering" out of a pizza shop at around 12:45 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. Jacobson then approached a vehicle that was double-parked in such a way that other motorists were forced to drive left of the center to get around him, she said. Kubiak did not know the address of the pizza shop. The officer approached the Fox anchorman...

The Walter Jacobson case is just the tip of the iceberg Widespread outrage was the result last week when it was learned the Correctional Service of Canada saw no harm in releasing a serial sex offender to a halfway house in the same Toronto neighbourhood from which 10-year-old Holly Jones was abducted and murdered in May. How could agency officials be so callous and so blind, just two months after Holly's death? Dave Pisapio, Correction Canada's assistant director for the Toronto region, admitted officials may have underestimated public concern about the transfer of Walter Jacobson, who has a 40-year history...