-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, thank goodness for Rahm Emanuel’s “Chicago values,” eh? NBC Chicago is now reporting that it is more dangerous to live in Chicago than any other great city of the world.
Isn’t it wonderful that Rahm Emanuel came from Washington to save the city?
As the TV station reports it, Chicago is worse than even New York… even worse than MEXICO CITY, fer cripes sakes … in the number of murders we have here.
As measured in murders per 100,000 citizens, here is the list with worst (Chicago) listed first:
- Chicago 19.4
- Sao Paulo 15.6
- Moscow 9.6
- Mexico City 8.0
- Los Angeles 7.5
- New York 6.0
- Paris 4.4
- Amsterdam 1.8
- Toronto 1.7
- London 1.4
- Sydney 1.0
- Berlin 1.0
- Hong Kong 0.6
- Tokyo 0.5
- Singapore 0.4
Thanks, Rahm!
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Mayor Emanuel’s ‘Chicago Values’: Chicago, Deadliest Global City”
In yet another union-styled outrage, Democrats backed by union thugs in Wisconsin are using the personal information of voters found on recall petitions to harass them because they signed a petition to recall Green Bay Democrat State Senator Dave Hansen.
I expect a lot of union protest and rallies in the coming month, and I fear that things will get ugly. The unions certainly are active, and protests this week took place from coast to coast, from Times Square to Olympia, WA. Here are some of the highlights of this week’s union protests around the nation:
Law breaking and violence has always been the stock and trade of unions and today’s budget conflagrations are no different as witness the most recent threatening actions by a union thug, this one in Lansing, Michigan, the Wolverine State’s capitol city.
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Ann Althouse has been one of the leading bloggers chronicling the union thugs that have infested Wisconsin over the last few weeks and yesterday she did it again. With her trusty video camera in hand, Althouse found some
The Democrat’s “new tone” rolls ever onward… into the ditch. After the latest vote on the Budget Repair Bill last Friday, Democrat State Representative Gordon Hintz (54th District) turned to fellow Representative Michelle Litjens (R, 56th District) 