The public corruption that has long plagued Illinois has also seeped into the state’s biggest school district, which happens to be the nation’s third largest with more than 400,000 students. According to an annual report published by the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General, a record 1,012 cases of fraud and waste were investigated

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A federal judge twice indicted with separate crimes and previously reprimanded by his circuit’s Judicial Council continues to sit on the bench in Texas despite his serious legal troubles. U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, the first federal jurist indicted on sex crimes, was even suspended by the Judicial Council of the Fifth Circuit for a

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A highly touted advisory panel created by a governor seeking to integrate his state’s 400,000 illegal immigrants will recommend issuing “driver privilege cards” and discounted college tuition to illegal aliens. Claiming that New Jersey is a gateway to America, Governor Jon Corzine created the blue-ribbon panel by executive order in mid 2007 to develop a

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Even key Democrats are concerned that the agency under fire for intelligence failures involving the 2001 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war will be headed by a scandal-plagued Clinton Administration official with no intelligence experience. Barack Obama’s controversial choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency—Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta—has caused quite an

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Under pressure from police, an Ohio city has revised its new law granting illegal immigrants sanctuary by removing a strict prohibition on all public employees—including law enforcement officers—from inquiring about anyone’s immigration status.  The sanctuary law was passed in Oberlin, southwest of Cleveland with a population of about 9,000, in late December. City officials created

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The day after an Obama cabinet pick gets exposed for enacting legislation to benefit one of her politically famous husband’s benefactors, another withdrew under investigation for giving a shady company a lucrative state contract after it donated big bucks to his political action committee.  The two separate incidents mark the latest of several scandals to

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