Category Archives: American Politics

Chicago Cubs leaving WGN

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/06/04/cbs-radio-gains-cubs-broadcasting-rights/ This is pretty big news for Chicago, and baseball and radio in general. Tribune Company owned not only the Cubs, but WGN-AM, WGN-TV and the Chicago Tribune newspaper. This company became vulnerable when they tried to get the State … Continue reading →

Posted in America Loves Sports!, Barack Obama, CBS, Radio Biz | 8 Comments

Music Rights issue about to clobber radio

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The Department of Justice is now involved. Just before World War II, the radio business decided to “break” ASCAP, who the NAB felt was increasingly abusing its control over payments to Composers and lyricists and artists [hold that correction!]. The … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014 Election, American Politics, Collapse of America, Radio Biz | 9 Comments

TEA Party is Toast

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80252845/ Today was primary day for six states. The Republican “establishment” didn’t even break out in a sweat. Mitch McConnell will either be reelected to the US Senate or Democrats will retain control. Dinesh D’Souza has plead guilty to violating … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014 Election, American Politics, Collapse of America | 19 Comments

Meet Cathy M Garrett

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Ms Garrett is the County Clerk of Wayne County Michigan. Wayne County is Detroit along with other Downriver areas like Dearborn and Redford. Here is some unrelated video so you can get a sense of her. Cathy Garrett video She … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Collapse of America | 21 Comments

It’s primary day in North Carolina

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The incumbent Senator is Kay Hagan, a Democrat. She had been a State Senator for 10 years and 6 years ago defeated incumbent Senator Elizabeth “Liddy” Dole (wife of former US Sen. Bob “Buy Viagra” Dole) in the 2008 Obama … Continue reading →

Posted in 2014 Election, Art's Big Adventure, North Carolina | 19 Comments

Obama proposes turning Interstate highways into toll roads

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cumulus-reports-operating-results-for-first-quarter-2014-2014-04-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp Then we can sell them to China

Posted in 2014 Election, American Politics, Barack Obama, Collapse of America | 10 Comments

How to not be a salesman

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Fred Stiening

More from the totally random department… This week, Rush Limbaugh returned from his surgery to install a second cochlear implant. He spent a good part of an hour talking about the mechanics of how hearing works, how cochlear implants work, … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Technology | 18 Comments

John Paul Stevens to retire

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Fred Stiening

John Paul Stephens was a rich kid’s son, growing up in Hyde Park, the oasis of rich people on South Lake Shore Drive in Chicago where Barack Obama’s home is. John Paul Stevens was put on the appeals court by … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 election, American Politics, Barack Obama, Gun ownership | 18 Comments

NY Times: The Health Benefits of Nicotine (1997)

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The unscientists at the FDA are proposing national regulation discouraging the use of e-cigarettes that deliver nicotine without the cancer causing smoke. Back in 1997, when Journalists still presented both sides of an issue, the NY Times investigated whether the … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Individual Liberty | 9 Comments

Georgia governor signs new gun rights law

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/04/23/nathan-deal-stresses-positive-changes-in-gun-bill-hell-sign-today/ The suspicious side of me thinks this was done to set up a Federal judge to throw out the law, thereby creating a “negative law”

Posted in American Politics, Gun ownership | 2 Comments