Politics

President Barack Obama is reigning in insurance companies with a Patients’ Bill of Rights. The New York Times reports that a study from Health Care for America Now revealed that the increase in premiums far exceeded normal medical inflation costs. Premiums increased 97 percent from 2000 to 2008 while medical costs only increased 39 percent.…

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has vowed to keep the handgun ban in place, especially after the bloody weekend that the city had. 54 people were shot over the weekend, resulting in 10 deaths and numerous injuries. Several of the victims killed were teenagers and a baby was grazed by a bullet during this murderous…

History is in the making in the confederate state of South Carolina. Republicans overwhelmingly chose Nikki Haley, an Indian-American woman, to run for governor in South Carolina and easily nominated Tim Scott, in line to become the former Confederate state’s first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Haley is one step closer to…

From our “It’s about time” file, gays will be able to leave work to care for an ailing child. President Obama continues to slowly but surely chip away at discrimination against gays by tweaking the Family and Medical Leave Act. President Obama has made a number of small changes that have increased benefits to gays…

by Ernesto Londoño and Michael D. Shear KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile that includes highly critical remarks by him and his staff about top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy. The article in this week’s Rolling Stone magazine is certain to…

What’s really going on? Chicago has had yet another weekend of mayhem with 54 shootings. 54 shootings? Ten people were killed including four black males between the ages of 16 and 20, who were found naked, shot to death and lying face down on railroad property on the South Side. A baby girl suffered a…

Straight from the “We can’t make this stuff up” file, Fox News has accused President Obama of giving Arizona back to Mexico. Yes, you read right. The network known for being extremely free with their facts is under fire for allegedly making up stuff about the president, again. During an America Live report, guest host…

President Barack Obama did the most CEO-like thing he’s ever done on Tuesday: He under-promised and over-delivered. And if he plans to get reelected in 2012, that’s what he’ll keep doing. Having lowered the bar for himself by first taking a by-the-numbers overnight visit to the Gulf Coast and then delivering a hum-drum national address…

Colbert I. King was feeling froggy on Father’s Day. He pointed out the contradictory behavior of GOP darlings Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, who have taken President Obama to task for being from a “broken home.” Some of his critiques include their serial marriages, i.e. “broken homes,” and their propensity for younger women and affairs.…

Heavyweight champion Joe Louis could easily have been describing our moment many years ago when he famously warned his opponents, ”You can run, but you can’t hide.” In the context of covered-up child abuse by the Vatican, an environmental disaster of epic proportions created by British Petroleum, and the destructive motion through the room of…