So let me get this straight. President Barack Obama makes a clarion call to reform healthcare so that the 30 million Americans (not including the 12 million "non-Americans" living in America) can have affordable and fair health insurance, and what does the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate do?

They...

Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer (D-10th) received at least $2,000 in campaign contributions from Illinois casino gaming interests three weeks before she publicly unveiled her campaign to block video gaming machines in Cook and DuPage Counties, her financial records show.

She then pushed through the Cook County Board an ordinance...

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus unveiled his own-pro-insurance industry health care plan that takes the breath out of President Obama’s health care reform proposals while offering subtle protections to the health care industry.

Sorry Senator, your plan pretends to address the needs of those who can't afford insurance but...

Jay Leno didn't just move from his 10:30 slot (Central) to the 9 PM slot. His move is challenging husband-wife spats over who dominates the TV remote control all across America's heartland.

Leno's time shift has caused a seismic "disruption in the force" at the Hanania household.

Like most...

It was not surprising to see the Republican side of the joint session of Congress sit in their chairs like scolded school children wearing universally constipated expressions of disdain as President Barack Obama presented a powerful and effective consensus healthcare plan to unite the Democrats.

It was also not surprising...

President Obama seems to be running from policies rather than leading policies. Instead of acting like a President who won office with a huge mandate for "change," he is acting like he is months away from a re-election and fears offending the public.

Politicians in one of the nation's toughest...

When I was a child, my mom explained that my dad saved scraps of aluminum foil, the miracle kitchen asset that made cooking so much easier. It was a habit he picked up during World War II when conservation was important and everyone pitched in to fight a threat to...

As we Baby Boomers turn the corners on our lives, we're staring down all kinds of insecurities and fears from our lifestyles and our wastefully-led economic past practices.

We spent money like crazy, and helped turn the Credit Card industry into a legally sanctioned Mafia with vigs and juice loan...

Although race was what caught President Obama's attention, the confrontation between a Black Harvard professor and a White Cambridge police officer is not about race at all.

It is about citizens' rights. When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on...

Although the Republicans and their so-called "Blue Dog" conservative Democrats claimed they oppose President Obama's health care plan because it would increase the nation's debt, the real reason is driven by racism and the fact that the majority who would benefit from health care reform are minorities, the poor and...

Cynthia McKinney was the first woman to be elected to represent a congressional district in Georgia. She was first elected as a member of the U.S. Congress in 1993 and she served 10 years. She was defeated when she started to question America's blind obedience to Israel's selfish, self-centered policies...

As long as Western politicians, especially those in the United States, view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other tyrants as opportunities for local political gain, the dictators will continue to oppress.

Here in the United States, the news media is leading the charge, clawing itself past even the traditional conservative...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pretends that he is a peace-maker but deep down in his heart, he is driven by a hatred of Palestinians and will do anything to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State. Rather than support a "Road Map for Peace," Netanyahu's entire political existence has...

It was disclosed this week that the city's pension funds invested $68 million in a real estate development company run by Allison Davis, a former partner with convicted fundraiser and realtor Antoin "Tony" Rezko, and Robert Vanecko.

Rezko's name stands out, of course. But Vanecko might not unless you...

As the smoke clears in Lebanon's sectarian elections, and the two major factions appear to be where they began, the real winner may in fact be President Barack Obama. Did his speech last week to the Arab World impact Lebanon's election results?

In fact, only one seat changed hands between...

Much is being made of President Barack Obama's speech Thursday morning (CST) to the "Muslim World." The speech was inspiring. I listened to Obama as his speech was broadcast by an Arab television station and also to the reaction of Arabs throughout the Middle East.

I subscribe to the...

By just going to Cairo University to give a "speech to the Muslim World," Barack Obama is doing something that his predecessors never really understood.

The Arab World and the Muslim World do not hate Americans nor do they hate the West. They are angry about some policies. Some fanatics...

It was late on a Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend in 1979 and we were all sitting around in the City Hall press room when word came down that a plane had crashed at O'Hare Airport.

I don't know why, except that maybe we were starting to get...

When I was a child, Palestine was a simple concept of fairness and justice. Today, things are not so simple.

I'd listen as my dad and his brothers railed against the injustices committed by the Israelis, who were celebrated in the mainstream American press with heroic status. My dad and...