Kyle Bell

News broke today via the New York Times that billionaire Joe Ricketts planned to spend $10 million dollars in Super PAC attack ads against President Obama featuring his former controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. While that in itself was newsworthy, the fact that the Ricketts family owns the Chicago Cubs is even more intriguing. The Cubs [...]

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Final Thoughts: President Obama entered tonight’s speech with a new Republican Congress, but also an improving economy and approval ratings above 50%. The mood on Capitol Hill was somewhat sober with the recent events in Tucson looming over as a dark cloud. The president struck the right tone and set out priorities that have been [...]

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Arizona on Wednesday in the wake of last Saturday’s tragic shooting. The president spoke at a memorial service honoring the lives of those that were shot and killed. Below is a video: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDExLzAxLzEzL3ByZXNpZGVudC1vYmFtYS1zcGVha3MtYXQtYXJpem9uYS1tZW1vcmlhbC88d3B0Yj5QcmVzaWRlbnQgT2JhbWEgU3BlYWtzIGF0IEFyaXpvbmEgTWVtb3JpYWw8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8va3lsZWJlbGwuY29tPHdwdGI%2BS3lsZSBCZWxs”;

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Democrats scored a major victory on Sunday night as the health care bill, which has been debated for over a year, has finally passed both chambers of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama shortly. The vote was 219 to 212 with zero Republicans voting in favor. It is [...]

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It was not a common phrase in our lexicon until recently. Only after a black man was nominated and eventually elected president did the term “socialism” resurface to describe the Democratic Party’s leader. Bill Clinton avoided the accusation, as well as Al Gore and John Kerry. “Liberal” or “far left radical” was sufficient for them. [...]

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Just a day after former senator Dan Coats announced his entrance into the Indiana Senate race, a poll shows that he has a lot of ground to make up before he can call himself a “current senator”. Incumbent Democrat Evan Bayh, who enjoys a 61% approval rating in the state, leads Coats by 20 points. [...]

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There are interesting new poll numbers out of the states of California and Illinois. Over the weekend, the Public Policy Institute of California released polling numbers for the upcoming June 8 primary both in the race for Governor and Senate. The Democrats are favored to win both races as Republicans beat each other up in [...]

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Democratic Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois is in a fight for his political life as he faces Comptroller Dan Hynes for the party’s nomination. Quinn, who became governor after Rod Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office, is running a state that has serious fiscal problems. In this economy, that is not something that is [...]

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The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]

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The International Olympic Committee will meet next month in Denmark to determine what city will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Chicago is one of four cities competing for the honor of hosting the Olympics. Others include Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Chicago is already recognized as a world class city. From its sprawling [...]

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