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• Liberia: Poor Sanitation Killing Country’s Young

  —Turning Left

  From AllAfrica.com:

  Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.

  On this chaotic Friday morning in the Slipway Clinic registration room, over one hundred mothers, their crying infants wrapped in traditional lappa cloth, wait on narrow wooden benches for hours to [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:45am EST
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• Cowardly Ray Hanania Disappoints (Kind of)

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  Come on Ray Hanania, you can do better than to write a nasty, false posting about Chicago News Bench only to quickly delete it in cowardly fashion. Previously, I've only said nice things about you, Ray, and your scribblings about Orland Park. Like here, for' [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:21pm EST
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• Three Tragic Thanksgivings for Flores and Lagunas Families

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  Miguel Flores, 22, and Erick Lagunas, 21, were killed on Thanksgiving Day, 2007 when a police officer's car hit them. Two years later, the wheels of justice seem to be stuck. Or spinning. Whichever metaphor you choose, the case has gone nowhere but nowhere.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:03pm EST
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• Al Gore Responds to Climategate

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  A hacker employed by Chicago News Bench wormed his way into the bowels of the iOwnTheWorld supercomputer and found this bit of clever political satire. Poor Al Gore hides in his snow house, badgered by a world that suddenly sees him for the fraud that he is. We reproduce it [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:45am EST
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• 2010 in Song

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  Taking back America, in words and song. This one is by the brilliant Lloyd Marcus.

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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• Our New World HQ Offices

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  Chicago News Bench is pleased to announce that we've recently acquired a brand spanking new office complex. It will house our world headquarters in a geniune brick structure, complete with a door, windows and cold running water. For security reasons, we can't disclose the address, but [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:57am EST
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• The Klan Member and the Gentleman (cartoon)

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  Yet another great cartoon by Zack Rawsthorne at Diversity Lane.
  
  
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:31am EST
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• Another Uptown Shooting Not Thwarted by Positive Loitering

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  UPDATE with VIDEO by JOE GRAY (below)
  
  At about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8, shots rang out at N. Sheridan Road and W. Lakeside Place, one block south of W. Lawrence Avenue. This is yet another Uptown crime story broken by Chicago News Bench [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:59pm EST
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• UPDATED - UPTOWN SHOOTING, SHERIDAN AND LELAND, CHICAGO

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  FIRST PUBLISHED at 10:37 p.m.; UPDATED, 11:59 p.m., Nov. 8:
  Another Uptown Shooting Not Thwarted by Positive Loitering
  SUNDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IN UPTOWN, CHICAGO
  
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  Shell casings found 4731 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago - 10:41 [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:37pm EST
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• Action Call Video - Revolution's Eve, Nov. 5, 2012

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  Awesome video. Just one criticism: What about November, 2010?

  
  
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:39pm EST
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• Pollak to Chicago TeaParty

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  Republican challenger in the 9th Congressional District Joel Pollak, video message to Chicago TeaParty. Call Dem Jan Schakowsky today! The Bench.
  
  Chicago TeaParty today in swing vote Dem Dan Lipinski's district. [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  

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• Ah, Behold Our New Toolbar by Wibiya

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  Regular visitors to Chicago News Bench may have noticed a new gizmo here: The groovalicious new toolbar at the bottom of our site. Powered by Wibiya.com, and in an invitation-only beta stage, the features are splendid. It's one of the best software betas I've ever had the pleasure to test.
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:05pm EST
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• Video: People Tear Down Khameini Billboard in Iran

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  Part of the November 4 protests in Iran.

  
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:42am EST
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• Woman Robbed While Urinating in Public; Witness Also a Urinator

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  I would love to talk to the officer who wrote this one up.

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  A woman reported two bags stolen from a bench at the bus stop at the corner of Victory Drive and Main Street shortly after 10 p.m. on [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Halloween Slideshow (Chicago)

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  A nice slideshow of kids, parents, goblins and scary scenes from Chicago on Halloween 2009 is posted at Lake Effect News.
  
  
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 1:28pm EST
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• Witches Seen Flying Over Mexican Towns

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  En espanol con subtitles. Mexican journalism and science at its very best!
  
  
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:09pm EDT
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• Scary Halloween Obama-SEIU Video

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  It's frightening....because it's real.
  How's that 10 percent unemployment working out for you this Halloween, America?
  
  
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
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• Italian Bread

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  Two old guys, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on their usual park bench one morning.

  The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn’t even short of breath.

  The 80 year old was amazed at his friend’s stamina and asked him what he did [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:41pm EDT
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• Butch Up Your Girly Son For Halloween

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  This is humor. It's funny. Deal with it.

  
  How To Find A Masculine Halloween Costume For Your Effeminate Son
  
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
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• A Good Halloween Rock Video

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  The first single from hit album 'Black Holes and Revelations' by Muse. This song is not typical of Muse, really, but it's fun. For great rock videos see Muse's channel on YouTube.
  
  
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:00am EDT
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• Chicago News Bench Checks Out Terrorist Home

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  The neighbor said he counted "29 boxes" being carried out of Rana's house by FBI agents.Rana's house, a run-down hovel with a messy yard and too many satellite dishes on its roof, was dark with all curtains drawn when we photographed it at midday. See our exclusive photo slideshow [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
  

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• Welcome to Britain, Have a Miserable Stay

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  A funny - and tragically accurate - bit of political satire from the Formerly Great Britain. See more good stuff at the HairyChestnuts channel on YouTube.
  
  
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:28am EDT
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• Topinka the Stinka (Video)

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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
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• The Road to Freedom - Music Vid by Chris de Burgh

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  More inspiration from musician Chris de Burgh. This moving video speaks to freedom and the magnificence of the human spirit. Enjoy.
  
  
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:30am EDT
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• Why the Left Can NEVER Really Take Over...

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  Watch this video. Who do you think most of these guys vote for, hmmm?
  
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
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• The Revolution - Music Vid by Chris de Burgh

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  Let this be your Sunday inspiration, fellow mobsters.
  
  
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
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• Creature From the Black Lagoon

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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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• 500,000 Hits on Our Third Anniversary

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  Chicago News Bench (CNB) is exactly three years old next week, and what a birthday present: Half a million hits! To make it even sweeter, we don't fake our numbers like one major local blog that we know of does. Thanks to all of CNB's readers for giving high traffic [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2009, 9:11pm EDT
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• Another North Side Chicago Obama stimulus "campaign sign"

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  Two nights ago Tom Mannis of the Chicago News Bench and I served as celebrity judges at the College Republican Jeopardy tournament on the city's North Side--which was hosted by comptroller candidate William J. Kelly.
  
  I gave Tom a ride home, but not before we [...]

  Posted: October 24, 2009, 8:23pm EDT
  

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• The Crawling Hand!

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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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