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Thursday October 1, 2009
Moments in Racial Insensitivity: Motorist attacks another motorist with a golf club after accident, and asks for his green card. The US Supreme Court has agreed to look at a challenge of the Chicago gun ban. Alan Gura helped defeat the gun ban in Washington, DC and is also representing the plaintiff in Chicago case. Gun Of The Day Update: On Wednesday a law went into effect in Arizona that allows people to carry guns in bars.
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Thursday October 1, 2009
Another video has been released showing school kids singing songs about President Obama. Does it worry you that teachers are spending class time on things like this? Is it indoctrination? Celebrity Death Watch: Oscar-Nominated Actor Dennis Hopper Hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.
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Wednesday September 30, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee rejected the public option in the health care plan yesterday. So what is the future of ObamaCare? John talked to Jeff Birnbaum Fox New political analyst and digital managing editor for the Washington Times. The military may lift the ban on women serving on submarines. John talked to Elaine Donnelly from the Center for Military Preparedness, who says that it is a very bad idea.
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Wednesday September 30, 2009
Another video has been released showing school kids singing songs about President Obama. Does it worry you that teachers are spending class time on things like this? Is it indoctrination? They've had big roles in the movie National Treasure, and the new Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol. What kind of influence do they still have in the government? Eamon Javers from The Politico investigated it.
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Wednesday September 30, 2009
Cheerleaders at a high school in Tennessee have been told to lose religious pre-game banners. The banners said things like "I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me in Christ Jesus. - Phillippians 3:14." Pollster Scott Rasmussen joined John to talk about the latest polling on ObamaCare. The numbers suggest that support for the plan has hit a new low. Al Sharpton guest hosted the WWE last night.
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Wednesday September 30, 2009
An Indiana grandmother has been busted as a suspected meth dealer after she purchased too much cold medicine. This seems to be going a bit too far, but who is to blame for slapping the cuffs on granny, the police or the prosecutor? Which poll do you want to believe, the Tribune poll that said Chicagoans are divided 50/50 on the Olympics, or the one released as Obama goes over there that says 72% of Chicagoans and 82% of Americans back the bid? Mother Of The Year Nominee: A 37-year-old woman was arrested after trying to sell her child in exchange for gas money.
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee joined John to talk about the state of the GOP going into the 2010 mid-term elections, and the 2012 Presidential election. General Tony Zinni was a special envoy to the middle east, he joined John to talk about the debate over the war in Afghanistan and his new book "Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom".
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
Baby Watch 2009: Gabriella Abree Cotto was born yesterday morning. Everyone is doing fine, although unfortunately no one won the baby pool. A new study from the University of New Hampshire suggests that spanking your kids could leave to lower IQ's later in life. Some are even calling for a nation-wide ban on spanking. A Virginia toddler has died after being mauled Sunday evening by her family’s pit bull. The identity of the creator of ChicagoansforRio.com has finally been revealed. Chicago advertiser Kevin Lynch created the site and also the parody ad.
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
An Indiana grandmother has been busted as a suspected meth dealer after she purchased too much cold medicine. This seems to be going a bit too far, but who is to blame for slapping the cuffs on granny, the police or the prosecutor? Officials in west Michigan want to prosecute a woman who watches her neighbors kids. John talked to Michigan state Representative Brian Calley, who is working on legislation to protect people who watch their neighbors kids.
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
Yesterday the White House announced that President Obama will head to Copenhagen to help Chicago's Olympic bid after all. Do you think this is a proper use of Presidential prestige? Gun of The Day Update: 85-Year-Old Threatens Police Sergeant With BB Gun.
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Monday September 28, 2009
Late last week Iran unveiled a previously unknown nuclear facility, then the followed it up with several missile tests over the weekend. John talked about the Iranian situation with former UN Ambassador John Bolton. According to the DrudgeReport, Fox 32 has been barred from running a story on the website ChicagoansforRio.com. A mother and her teenage son are suing four other minors for setting up a fake Facebook profile of the son with racist and sexual statements. Is this character assassination or just a harmless prank? Was Alcohol Involved?: Man jumps into bear exhibit at SF zoo.
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Monday September 28, 2009
Cisco baby update: Cisco is out today because his wife's water has broken, so they baby may be on its way. According to the DrudgeReport, Fox 32 has been barred from running a story on the website ChicagoansforRio.com. Bill Clinton was on Meet The Press over the weekend. While he didn't say that opposition to President Obama is racist, he did say that the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is alive and well. A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been caught with their hands clean, using hand sanitizing gel to get drunk.
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Monday September 28, 2009
# Officials in west Michigan want to prosecute a woman who watches her neighbors kids. The charge? Operating an illegal day care! Matt Latimer worked for Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and was a speechwriter for President Bush. He joined John to talk about his new book "Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor"
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Monday September 28, 2009
Poland has passed a law requiring chemical castration for sexual offenders. Is that something that we should consider here, or is it too harsh? Moments in Racial Insensitivity: Hosptial employee dresses as gorilla, passes out bananas, to the sounds of "Hail to the Chief."
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Friday September 25, 2009
Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama." The Obama administration may have been trying to silence insurance companies that came out against his health care plan. House Republicans call for a hearing on the ‘Gag Order’. John and Cisco checked in with Congressman Peter Roskam.
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Friday September 25, 2009
Actor Randy Quaid has been arrested in Texas for skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill in California. What would make someone, a celebrity or otherwise think that they are so entitled that they could skip out on something like that? A Washington state coffee stand that featured bikini-clad baristas is in hot water. Five employees from the Grab-n-Go Espresso have been accused of prostitution. A suicide bomber tried to kill a Saudi prince by detonating TNT hidden in a body cavity.
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Friday September 25, 2009
Yesterday a man was charged with a coordinated terror plot that included Springfield. John and Cisco got the latest on the story from Todd Starnes with Fox News Radio. Rod Blagojevich's book tour continues. He appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart last night.
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Thursday September 24, 2009
Parents tell their kids that honesty is the best policy, but a new poll suggests that most lie to their kids. What do you think will be the first that Cisco will have to lie to his daughter about?
Congressman Joe Wilson now has his own action figure.
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Thursday September 24, 2009
President Obama addressed the UN yesterday, along with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Moammar Gadhafi. Does the UN lose all relevance when Presidents speak at the same podium as two bit dictators? Byron York from the Washington Examiner joined John to talk about the status Congress going into the 2010 elections. New polling suggested that the Democrat lead on the Republicans has evaporated. Gun of The Day: 72 year-old man with concealed carry permit shoots would-be robber.
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Thursday September 24, 2009
A Batavia woman has been fined $200 for stealing her neighbors cat and dumping it in the woods. She has been fined $200, but the family wants her to be forced to pick up roadkill. Which punishment do you think is appropriate? President Obama addressed the UN yesterday, along with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Moammar Gadhafi. John talked about it with Cliff May from the Foundation for the Defense for Democracies. Shawon Dunston has dropped his request for college money that the was in his original contract with the Cubs
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Thursday September 24, 2009
Cisco is taking the day off because he and his wife just might be welcoming their first child into the world soon. We'll update you as much as possible. Monday morning when John and Cisco talked to Andrew Breitbart from BigGovernment.com, he said that if ACORN launched a lawsuit against James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, he said it would be like Christmas for Conservatives. Well yesterday the Maryland branch of ACORN did just that.
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Wednesday September 23, 2009
A BB gun-wielding man prompted lockdown at a Pennsylvania school. It turned out that he was just firing cats who were attacking the pigeons that he raises for a living. Was the school overreacting or just playing it safe? President Obama is at the United Nations this week. Yesterday he said that climate change could soon create an "irreversible catastrophe." John and Cisco talked to Steve Milloy, editor of JunkScience.com and author of "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do About It."
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Wednesday September 23, 2009
Finally there is a way that people who are less than enthusiastic about the Chicago 2016 Olympics can show their support for the bid: Chicagoansforrio.com. Michael Barone from the Washington Examiner.
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Wednesday September 23, 2009
Americans are as mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore! A new Rasmussen poll says that Sixty-six percent of voters are angry at the policies of the federal government. Former Cicero Mayor Betty Loren-Maltese has filed a $40 million lawsuit against 27 people inolved in her corruption trial and subsequent incarceration. The lawsuit alleges Loren-Maltese's constitutional rights were violated. Will Ferrell and several other celebrities have created a video on the health care debate. When celebrities get inolved in politics, does that make you less likely to pay money to see their other work?
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Wednesday September 23, 2009
The Tuscon school district has set up discipline program that treats the minority students differently from the rest of the students. Is it fair to treat kids differently because of race? California police used a Taser on an unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair. Was it excessive force or justified since the man was no cooperating?
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