http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress In order to form a more perfect blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently stumbled across a Stimulus construction sign in an upscale neighborhood on the North Shore of Chicago. Recovery.gov describes the project as follows: ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Highway Infrastructure Investment Grant: Urbanized Areas over 200K Population Award Amount: $1,320,000 Reported Jobs: 4.66 We produced a short video asking the question: Does the upscale suburb ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/video-stimulus-springs-eternal-building-roads-in-upscale-illinois-neighborhoods/ We noticed with amused curiosity, reports of an email circulating the digital halls of Congress warning staffers not to visit the Drudge Report for fear of viruses. Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/drudge-by-numbers-govt-spends-71433-surfing-drudge-report-in-first-9-days-of-march/ [via Gateway Pundit] This latest example of mainstream media fraud comes from St. Louis, and features coverage of the so called "Coffee Party". The following clip is only 2 minutes long, so watch all of it, and then look at the images below to understand why this video is nothing short of ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/media-fraud-just-a-cup-of-coffee-my-ass/ What should we believe, Progressives or our lying eyes? 1,000 Trapped on Ferry Stuck in Baltic Sea Ice How long will it be before these "victims" of climate file a lawsuit against the oil companies? Hurricane Katrina victims to sue oil companies over global warming Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/global-warming-traps-1000-people-in-baltic-sea-victims-to-sue-gulf-coast-oil-companies/ [via Gator Doug] The video below does a fantastic job of revealing the rank hypocrisy of BOTH the Republicans and the Progressive-Democrats on the subject of the ironically named "reconciliation" process. The most damaging section starts at 3:50 with then Senator Joe Biden. On one hand, this video destroys the myth of Obama ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/devastating-video-exposes-democrat-and-republican-hypocrisy/ Instapundit points to this video interview of a Berkeley student representative explaining why it's okay for students to riot in the streets in the name of their cause. We posted the raw video of the rioting here. What's so interesting about this interview is that during two separate moments, the student representative ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/video-liberal-hypocrisy-on-display-in-berkeley-as-student-defends-riots-against-education-immigration/ A former chief of security at O'Hare Airport is claiming that he was fired for repeatedly sounding the alarm over security vulnerabilities. Perhaps most disturbing, he said, was that up to 10,000 private vehicles are allowed to park in a secured area by the north hangar. He also said officers assigned to ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/claim-chicagos-ohare-least-secure-airport-in-the-country/ [via Around O-Town] As long as they have universal Obamacare, right? Authorities are searching for 270 Somalis believed to have entered the U.S. illegally with the help of a Virginia man who admitted contacts with an Islamic terrorist group. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent said his agency had yet to locate any ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/ice-searching-for-somali-jihadis-smuggled-into-united-states/ It is very nice to see that David Weigel gets it when it comes to the nontroversy over James O'Keefe's wardrobe in the ACORN scandal videos. (Emphasis added in red) A quick recap of my role here — I asked Hannah Giles about the charge, leveled by a lot of liberal ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/david-weigel-tells-media-matters-it-doesnt-matter-how-james-okeefe-was-dressed/ Kudos to Chicago Breaking News for reporting this one: Illinois schools chiefs' salaries keep supersizing The average salary and benefits of Illinois' top school executives grew 4.1 percent last year, about 10 times faster than raises enjoyed by other wage earners in the Chicago metro area, according to state data. A record ... http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/03/illinois-school-chiefs-get-supersized-raises-while-slashing-the-budget/