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City Council is a laughing stock.
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The average family health insurance premium in the US is up 249% since 2000. The biggest beneficiaries of this massive increase: health insurance companies. UnitedHealth (largest US insurer) was up 4,120% since 2000 vs. 340% gain for the S&P 500.
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I remember when the Bears had a quarterback that could beat the Saints in the Superdome. And he was a running back.
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Only women of a certain era will fully appreciate this “legend.”
A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.
One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk.
After a brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone.
She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor. There was only one other patron in the store: Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.
The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes. The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.
Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three children, you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!
The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.
When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty.
Where's my ice cream cone?
Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something!
No ice cream cone was in sight.
With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.
His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin and he said to the woman,
"You put it in your purse."
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"The U.S. birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007. This decline cannot be explained by demographic, economic, or policy changes."
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While the exact drivers of the decline are open for debate, researchers have proposed many “demographic, economic, or policy” explanations, including greater access to birth control & contraception, the 2008 recession, migration, and women pursuing education.
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Most Americans don’t know what America’s immigration policy looks like.
They have no idea that for some countries, the waiting list is 100+ years long.
They have no idea that for some people, immigration = invest in the American economy, while for others there is no legal path.
Poor migrant workers have 0 chance of coming into the US legally unless they’re employed as a temporary worker, and they can’t bring their families.
Our system is broken, and while I hear so many saying “do it legally!” I wonder, are you aware that doing it legally is impossible for so many?
We need to completely overhaul the immigration system, or the border crisis will get much worse.
Having people spend their money on Coyotes to cross the border = less money to get on their feet when they reach America.
Not knowing who’s here is a vulnerability for our defenses, both militarily and biologically. (People can bring diseases)
It’s time we have a real conversation and stop speaking past each other.
Americans want, NEED, immigrants, but politicians keep politicizing the issue instead of coming up with solutions.
No one is going to solve it unless we actually demand a solution. #Immigration
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My pops stayed clean!!
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Happy birthday to Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation's Founding Fathers, who constantly warned us to protect our liberty!
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Ribbon-cutting time. After a mere 9 yrs (2x the projected time--and 2x the time it took to build the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s) and only 50% over budget...IL political ruling class & your trade union financiers, take a bow. Job done The Chicago Way.
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Sam Bankman-Fried was scheduled to testify to the House Financial Services Committee in Washington tomorrow. Instead, the US District for the Southern District of New York arrested him in the Bahamas.
As a former prosecutor this doesn’t make much sense. You want him to talk…
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.@Chicago_Police would like to recognize former Chicago Police Officer turned actor Dennis Farina. Dennis played numerous police officer roles, and was a huge supporter of law enforcement. He passed away on July 22, 2013. Thank you Mr. Farina for your years of service. 📷: Ro Gia – at Chicago, IL
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Average list price for a unit of insulin:
Australia: $6.94
UK: $7.52
France: $9.08
Germany: $11
Canada: $12
Japan: $14.40
United States $98.70
This is what happens when Big Pharma buys off a country’s political system.
None of this is acceptable. It has to change.



























