Chicago Daily Observer

The Mixture Could Really Stir the Pot at Wrigley!

“Wait till next year” came later than usual in 2007 for us Cub fans. While we’re waiting, some of us are turning our attention to billionaire Mark Cuban and his interest in buying the team. Given his success in the business world and with the Dallas Mavericks, Cuban looks like he could reverse the curse and save the lovable losers from another full century of despair.

But at what price?

Cuban, a Pittsburgh-area native, made his money in computers, but he’s equal parts aspiring jock and tinkering geek. A graduate of the University of Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, Cuban went on to create a number of successful ventures, before co-founding Broadcast.com along with fellow Kelley-grad Todd Wagner. The online service combined his passion for sports with his devotion to technological innovation, delivering game audio to fans via the Web. After ... Read More...

The Arlington Group, a powerful association of the Christian Right is, to borrow from the author of the Book of Virtues, picking a (presidential) pony. Some, ponies, like Arkansas’ Mike Huckabee, just don’t look like they can make it to the final stretch. But Fred Thompson, on the other hand, could go the distance. The problem is, to this key group is, he’s a “federalist.”

A fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, Fred Thompson seems poised to take the fight to Iran, if elected. But Iran isn’t on the Arlington radar while the “sanctity of marriage” is.

Here a President Thompson would be a problem for the Arlington agenda—not because of his apparent aversion to covenant marriage, but because he is a federalist, at least when it comes to the “gay marriage” question. In an interview with NRO‘s Jim Geraghty, Arlington member Gary Bauer put it plainly:

“Many of ... Read More...

On New Year’s Eve, Gov. Blagojevich and 61 percent of your Illi-nois state legislature have some exciting plans for us—or, at least, for those of us who have a home-based business that is, in some way, open to the public. When the ball drops, they’d like for you to take out a hammer and bang it hard on every ash-tray in your house. Talk about noisemakers!
Actually, you can dispose of your ashtrays however you like. A simple toss in the garbage can will do. And actually, it’s not a suggestion on their part: It’s the law.
The Smoke-Free Illinois Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Blagojevich on July 23, bans all smoking in any “place of em-ployment” in the state of Illinois. As defined by SB 500, “A private residence or home-based business . . . is not a place of employment.” That’s bad enough—an ... Read More...