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Headless torso, spared killers and back to Jonestown + this day in history w/Mark David Chapman sentenced and our song of the day by Propagandhi on your Morning Monarchy for August 24, 2017.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is threatening to sue the Federal Department of Justice if they follow through on their threat of withholding anti-crime funds. [...]

One of the hardest and most thankless tasks in electoral politics is primarying an entrenched incumbent of one's own party. No matter how corrupt and awful the incumbent, the party establishment always rallies round the colleague and heaps abuse on the challenger.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Our independent friend David takes on two corporate Goliaths; Researchers have created a new probiotic beer that boosts immunity; Marijuana/freedom fans cheer recreational pot in Nevada.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Our independent friend David takes on two corporate Goliaths; Researchers have created a new probiotic beer that boosts immunity; Marijuana/freedom fans cheer recreational pot in Nevada.

Sgt. James Locke, center, inspects recruits, many of them high school juniors and seniors, as they stand at attention in the concrete barracks at the Army National Guard complex in Marseilles, Ill. (AP/Jeff Roberson)
(Opinion) — Chicago, Illinois, has a chronic inflated state problem disguised as a schooling problem. In order to eradicate the symptom, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to attack those who suffer from it and not the actual root of the problem — adopting a classic “more of the same” approach.

(RPI) Chicago police are keeping busy confiscating “illegal guns.” Last year through the summer, the confiscations were occurring at a rate of one every 59 minutes according to Chicago Police Department figures related by Mark Berman in an October 2016 Washington Post 

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Chicago, Illinois, has a chronic inflated state problem disguised as a schooling problem. In order to eradicate the symptom, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to attack those who suffer from it and not the actual root of the problem — adopting a classic “more of the same” approach.

(ANTIMEDIA) Chicago — Three Chicago cops have been indicted on felony charges, it was reported Tuesday, for allegedly conspiring to aid a fellow officer in covering up details of the 2014 killing of teenager Laquan McDonald.

(ANTIMEDIA) Chicago, IL — The Chicago Sun-Times has discovered a makeshift strip club that often conducts its shows on the top floor of a parking garage across the street from Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. According to the Sun-Times, the shows are arranged by the inmates to demonstrate their status as “top dogs” in the jail.