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Racial pandering on the CTA

Once again, the big, bad, white suburbs are victimizing poor, minority Chicagoans. That’s the underlying logic of a class action suit brought against the state, RTA and Metra by a public interest law firm that hasn’t a clue about the Pandora’s Box that it is opening. According to the suit, filed Wednesday in federal court,... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 8, 2010 at 10:37 pm
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More bunk from Chicago schools

Social class replaces race as a qualifying factor for admission to Chicago’s best public schools Social engineers just can’t help themselves when it comes to keeping their hands off your kids. Their latest plan is to base admissions to Chicago’s most preferred public schools to a large degree on “socioeconomic” factors, such as the percentage... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 17, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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More racial nonsense

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) goes way too far when he says white people are ready to don white hoods and uniforms. No, he doesn’t have to apologize for saying it; there are too many demands issued for apologies nowadays. It’s what he believes, and I’m glad that he made his true feelings clear. As stupid... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 15, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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Obama's "stupid" remark

Saying he doesn’t know the facts, President Barack Obama, from his distant White House post  said that Cambridge, Mass. police, in arresting Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  “acted stupidly.” Now that’s what I call stupid. Maybe it’s just another example of Obama’s double-speak, but if you say you don’t know the Henry Louis Gates,... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
July 23, 2009 at 10:07 am
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