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Oak Lawn 229 Welcomes 2 Co-Principals
August 27, 2008   Southwest News-Herald - Oak Lawn, Burbank, Bridgeview
The Oak Lawn Community High School 229 Board members welcomed last week its two newest interim...

School Events
August 27, 2008   Southwest News-Herald - Oak Lawn, Burbank, Bridgeview
A group of students have been selected to the high honors roll for the 2008 spring semester at...

Orange Line Project Discussed
August 27, 2008   Southwest News-Herald - Oak Lawn, Burbank, Bridgeview
More than 100 people from the city and suburbs  turned out for an Aug. 19 open house the...

New Interim Fire Chief Chosen for Oak Lawn
August 27, 2008   Southwest News-Herald - Oak Lawn, Burbank, Bridgeview
There were huge shakeups in the Oak Lawn Fire Department last week.

Ed Folliard recently announced...


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August 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton's powerful convention speech
All Barack Obama and Joe Biden could do Tuesday was sit back and envy the charisma and power displayed by Hillary Clinton, probably one of the best qualified candidates for president in America today.

Clinton's speech was the most inspiring and moving I have heard. Imagine having someone like that leading this country? Someone who isn't afraid to take on challenges and doesn't waffle on issues or run from past associations?

Every politician has enemies and haters and Hillary Clinton is no different, but she has the strength and the determination and even more importantly the guts and...

August 26, 2008
McCain has a chance to grab the presidency
August 9, 2008
Gov. Blagojevich and the challenges of health insurance

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August 22, 2008
Daley Has Big Shoes To Fill for 2016 Olympics
Mayor Daley was easy to spot in his pink hat at the Beijing Olympics, but I bet he was green with envy at watching the opening ceremonies, wondering to himself how in the heck can he surpass the bar set by China?

Simply put, the opening ceremonies were phenomenal. Even though the impressive image of “giant footprints” formed by fireworks walking across Beijing to the Olympics “Nest” stadium were faked, everything else was unbelievable.

The Chinese Government brought 2008 people to beat drums in an opening count down, with glow-in-the-dark drum sticks, in a ceremony...


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RAY HANANIA'S WORLD Comic Strips

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About RAY HANANIA'S WORLD Comic Strip and Cartoons
I love political satire. Whether it is in the form of spoken word through my presentations and speeches, or through my columns and blogs, or through this exciting new adventure of comic strip and cartoons.

I've been experimenting and I keep learning. An finally, I have settled on one comic strip that I hope you will enjoy that reflects my unique perspective on the world from international events to the very local. It's called "Ray Hanania's World" which appropriately enough covers everything.

So, in Ray Hanania's World Comic Strips you will see examples of my commentary skills exploring everything from a local police station in Orland Park to the Middle East conflict, from the presidential elections to the politics of the world of journalism.

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Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip, August 15, 2008:
Bush-Cheney reacting to Russian invasion of Georgia
Bush - Cheney



Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip, August 8, 2008:
Bush in China -- Competition for hypocrisy high at Beijing Olympic Games
Bush In China
The competition for hypocrisy in the Beijing Olympics is high with Chinese and Bush administration human rights violations



Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip, August 4 2008:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the new world order
Alexander Solzhenitseyn
Alexander Solzhenitseyn: One Gulag down and a dozen more to go...



Ray Hanania's World Comic Strip, August 2, 2008:
Daley hopes to learn much from Beijing Olympics
Daley and Olympics
Mayor Daley anticipates learning things from his visit to the Olympics in Beijing, China. Who knows, maybe he can use of the strategies in Chicago to take care of his own dissidents?

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August 25, 2008
Biden Balances Obama's Palestine-Israel Problem
There is no doubt that one of the main factors behind presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's choice of US Senator Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate is Biden's unwavering and rock solid support of Israel, support that has come at the expense of genuine peace.

Biden is, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, a self-described "Zionist." There's nothing wrong with being a Zionist -- the "Z" word sometimes raises as much apprehension as the "A-S" word. But Biden clearly is there for a purpose. The mainstream media will...


August 18, 2008
Palestinians Display Weakness in their Race to Reject Olmert's Lacking Proposal
August 11, 2008
Obama's Muslims and Six Degrees of Guilt by Association

OrlandParker...

OrlandParker.com is an Opinion Commentary based news and information web site about Orland Park and the neighboring suburban communities of Tinely Park, Orland Hills, Frankfort, Mokena, Palos region and Homer Township

August 25, 2008
Free Credit Reports are not free at all
Every once in a while I will try to address consumer issues that affect many people. If you have an interesting one, send it to me and I will check it out. This came from a reader who said she wanted to get here "Free Credit Report."

You've heard that jingle on TV where the "dude" sings his song about how he had a lousy credit and didn't know it and it ruined his life. He tells you to go to FreeCreditReport.com and get your "free" report. Well, it's not as "free" as they claim. There are, as always, strings attached.

You get a free credit report ONLY...


August 16, 2008
A Besieged Franktfort Township official Paul Ruff to address anti-Muslim charges Wednesday
August 13, 2008
A tornado in Orland Park last week?

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August 14, 2008 —  Click to hear Author Aladdin Elaasar on his new book on the future of Egypt
Award winning journalist, Aladdin Elaasar has just released his latest book: "The Last Pharaaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Volatile MidEast", predicting the downfall of President Mubarak of Egypt and the aftermath of the collapse of his regime.

Packed with facts and telling the story of both modern and Ancient Egypt, how the modern Arab and Islamic Worlds evolved, and interviewing and quoting experts, politicians, journalists and Western diplomats, Elaasar tells a compelling story that needs to be read by every one. Combining an uncanny sense of clarity and understatement, Aladdin Elaasar weaves Egypt’s historical grandeur with an unnerving cascade of political intrigue that reveal a side of Mubarak the world cannot long ignore. In one fell swoop, my admiration for Egypt is both strengthened, and the source of my unease revealed, as the author sheds light on the darkness of Egyptian politics that could one day turn catastrophic.

August 1, 2008 —  Click to listen to John Paul Jones author of "If Olaya Street Could Talk".
Author John Paul Jones. "If Olaya Street Could Talk: Saudi Arabia, The Heartland of Oil and Islam" by Taza Press, 2007, based on his nearly three decades working in the Arabian peninsula in the medical field following his service in the Vietnam War. Jones talks about his firsthand impressions about Saudi Arabia is an easy-to-read book, and also about his launching of a publishing house to focus on books about the Arab World www.TazaPress.com.

July 23, 2008  —  Click to listen to the interview with Tony Peraica.
Ray Hanania interviews Cook County Illinois Commissioner Anthony Tony Peraica about the fight to block the 1 percent sales increase imposed by Board President Todd Stroger, which makes the county one of the nation's highest and Chicago the highest when it comes to sales taxes, 10.25 percent in the city portion of the county. Peraica calls out Stroger's broken promises and challenges hypocritical comments from colleagues on the board including Commissioner Larry Suffredin and Debra Sims.

July 22, 2008  —  Click to listen interview with Arab American journalist Anthony Shadid.
Point to Point Podcast host Ray Hanania interviews Arab American journalist Anthony Shadid, Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in Iraq. Shadid is the author of several books including Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War which won the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent, Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, has spent the last three years dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad. The only journalist and Arab American to win a Pulitzer Prize for his extraordinary coverage of Iraq, Shadid is also the only writer to describe the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the unexpected impact of America's invasion and occupation. His writings are available at www.WashingtonPost.com.
 
Other Voices

August 25, 2008
What about the Ossetians?
By SHELDON RICHMAN
If Russia exited Georgia — as it should — and the Bush administration dropped its wish to expand NATO to Russia’s border — as it should — there would still be an issue to be dealt with: the secessionist ambitions of the majority in South Ossetia — the Georgian military response to which was...

August 22, 2008
Jones’ Exit Leaves Democrats with Hope
by RICH MILLER
Illinois Senate President Emil Jones has never been fully appreciated as a legislative leader. Jones, who announced his retirement last week after years at the helm, has a manner of speaking which leads far too many people to assume that he is not intelligent. 

Nothing could be further from the truth. He has been a...

August 19, 2008
Home-Made Crises
Jacob Hornberger's Commentary

August 15, 2008
War in Georgia Shows U.S. Foreign Policy Is a Bust
By SHELDON RICHMAN

July 28, 2008
10 Years After Prop. 227: Bilingual Education Still Hanging On
By LANCE T. IZUMI

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Earth Talk

The scoop on recycling container lids, tops and caps -plus- Rooftop solar panels for home energy and hot water
Dear EarthTalk:
Everyone knows we should recycle metal, glass and plastic cans and bottles, but what about all the lids, tops and caps?  I see people recycling plastic bottles, for example, with their caps on, but I've always been told to thrown them out. Is that wrong?

 -- Stefanie Gandolfi, Oakland, CA

Many municipal recycling programs throughout the U.S. still do not accept plastic lids, tops and caps even though they take the containers that accompany them. The reason is that they are not typically made of the same kinds of plastics as their containers and therefore should not be mixed together with them.  MORE...

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Everybody's Science
"Hanging Ten" on the Information Tidal Wave

I don't know how you feel about it, but I think the terms "Information Age" and "Information Highway" are fairly inadequate to describe the 24/7 onslaught of data in which we all find ourselves awash these days. To me, "Information Tidal Wave" seems like a more appropriate description; the flood of words never stops.

That's why I am so happy to come across nice, simple chunks of information that I can absorb without feeling like I'm trying to memorize all the intricacies of the Treaty of Ghent. You know the type of thing: those little "gee-whiz" stories that people used to swap around the office water cooler, back before everyone started bringing in their own favorite brand of bottled water.
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