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This whole town has gone MAD. Signifying that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn't even #1 at being mocked, Mad Magazine has awarded the Coifed One 15th place in its annual Top 20 list of dumbest people, events and things of 2009.

November 8, 2009) - Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence? All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers-and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn't deferred to the Justice Department's investigation ...

Chicago-area members of Congress have begun issuing statements on the Saturday night passage of the health care reform bill, H.R. 3962 -- and like the mainly partisan vote, the reactions have also fallen along party lines.

Somewhere up on a celestial dairy farm, the Holsteins are mooing, and a quiet smile is creasing the face of my late mother-in-law, Ruth Lawrence.

The tour stopped at many schools, including Howard and Hampton Universities. 'None of the schools spoke to me like Bennett did,' she says.

President Ronald Reagan had his flaws, but he certainly could turn a phrase. In the 1980 presidential campaign he asked a question that has resonated in campaigns ever since: "Are you better off than you were four years ago," the former California governor asked in his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter.

Kudos to our source in Washington D.C. for pointing out a little-noticed news item in The Washington Post some time back indicating there was an FBI probe when a purported associate of Rep.

It's been a year since Barack Obama stood on a stage in Chicago's Grant Park on a balmy November night and made Americans feel, for a little while at least, that their world wasn't coming down around their ears.

Associated Press The Rev. Jesse Jackson signs a letter to President Barack Obama after speaking at a rally called "Change Worth Fighting For" on the anniversary of Obama's election on Tuesday in Chicago's Grant Park.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 6:05 pm US/Central 1 of 1 President-elect Barack Obama appears on stage with his family members for his victory speech at his election party in Chicago on Nov.

The House ethics committee is currently investigating seven African-American lawmakers - more than 15 percent of the total in the House.

Kudos to our source in Washington D.C. for pointing out a little-noticed news item in The Washington Post some time back indicating there was an FBI probe when a purported associate of Rep.

Conservative radio host and former Secretary of Education William Bennett is castigated by both liberals and conservatives for his statement that aborting all black children would lower the US crime rate .

I trust you saw the morning papers today. The Chicago Sun-Times just published its 2009 rankings of 656 public high schools across Illinois.

The following House members have come under scrutiny from the House ethics committee for a wide range of issues.

Democrats in Washington -- including the scandal-plagued Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. -- seem intent upon pushing a socialist-style health care plan on an unwilling American public.

When Democrats go to the polls in the South Suburbs this February, they are likely to be surprised by a few names.

Protesters, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, marched up Chicago's Michigan Ave.

Let me first apologize to Rush Limbaugh.Last week in explaining why NFL commissioner Roger Goodell needed to put an end to Limbaugh's latest publicity stunt, I attributed racially insensitive quotes to Limbaugh that I read in two Missouri newspapers, saw on CNN and confirmed through a Google search.

The ambitions of women to crack the glass ceiling suffered a major setback the other day when Hillary Clinton said categorically that she will never again run for president.