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So many fantastical ideas have gotten mayoral support in Chicago yet still failed — many of them famously. Here are 10 of them.
Columnist Carol Gerrond recognizes police and other heroes CAROL GERROND Is this the worst of times? Riots, looting, mob violence, disease, murder, Bolshevism as the New Religion? Phonies everywhere? If you’ve been around awhile, you know, “We’ve been here before.” The sixties and early seventies—bet there’re a few who wish they’d known as much then as they thought they did. The news of the past weeks has especially brought those turbulent years back to mind. If you’re a youngster, you’ve probably never heard of the Weather Underground. Or Bill ...
PapaBear3625 Obama's Connections In late 1988 Obama entered Harvard Law, upon the recommendation of Percy Sutton, a powerful New York politician. Why did Sutton pull strings for Obama? In an interview from "Inside City Hall, (youtube clip Obama and Khalid Mansour) Percy Sutton says he was introduced to Obama by Khalid Al-Mansour of Texas, "principle advisor to one of the world's richest men". Mansour talked to Sutton about Obama and asked Sutton to write a recommendation to Harvard, using Sutton's contacts. Percy Sutton wrote the letter to Harvard calling Obama a "genius". Now who is this K...