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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Tuesday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:32 AM

Baby Watch 2009: Gabriella Abree Cotto was born yesterday morning. Everyone is doing fine, although unfortunately no one won the baby pool.
A new study from the University of New Hampshire suggests that spanking your kids could leave to lower IQ's later in life. Some are even calling for a nation-wide ban on spanking.
A Virginia toddler has died after being mauled Sunday evening by her family’s pit bull.
The identity of the creator of ChicagoansforRio.com has finally been revealed. Chicago advertiser Kevin Lynch created the site and also the parody ad.
Yesterday the White House announced that President Obama will head to Copenhagen to help Chicago's Olympic bid after all. Do you think this is a proper use of Presidential prestige?
Gun of The Day Update: 85-Year-Old Threatens Police Sergeant With BB Gun.
An Indiana grandmother has been busted as a suspected meth dealer after she purchased too much cold medicine. This seems to be going a bit too far, but who is to blame for slapping the cuffs on granny, the police or the prosecutor?
Officials in west Michigan want to prosecute a woman who watches her neighbors kids. John talked to Michigan state Representative Brian Calley, who is working on legislation to protect people who watch their neighbors kids.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee joined John to talk about the state of the GOP going into the 2010 mid-term elections, and the 2012 Presidential election. Huckabee will be in town for the Family, Faith and Freedom Banquet on October 6th.
General Tony Zinni was a special envoy to the middle east, he joined John to talk about the debate over the war in Afghanistan and his new book "Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom".

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Monday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:40 AM

Cisco baby update: Cisco is out today because his wife's water has broken, so they baby may be on its way.
According to the DrudgeReport, Fox 32 has been barred from running a story on the website ChicagoansforRio.com.
Bill Clinton was on Meet The Press over the weekend. While he didn't say that opposition to President Obama is racist, he did say that the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is alive and well.
A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been caught with their hands clean, using hand sanitizing gel to get drunk.
Poland has passed a law requiring chemical castration for sexual offenders. Is that something that we should consider here, or is it too harsh?
Moments in Racial Insensitivity: Hosptial employee dresses as gorilla, passes out bananas, to the sounds of “Hail to the Chief”.
Late last week Iran unveiled a previously unknown nuclear facility, then the followed it up with several missile tests over the weekend. John talked about the Iranian situation with former UN Ambassador John Bolton.
A mother and her teenage son are suing four other minors for setting up a fake Facebook profile of the son with racist and sexual statements. Is this character assassination or just a harmless prank?
Was Alcohol Involved?: Man jumps into bear exhibit at SF zoo.
Officials in west Michigan want to prosecute a woman who watches her neighbors kids. The charge? Operating an illegal day care!
Matt Latimer worked for Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and was a speechwriter for President Bush. He joined John to talk about his new book "Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor"

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Friday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:18 AM

Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama."
Actor Randy Quaid has been arrested in Texas for skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill in California. What would make someone, a celebrity or otherwise think that they are so entitled that they could skip out on something like that?
A Washington state coffee stand that featured bikini-clad baristas is in hot water. Five employees from the Grab-n-Go Espresso have been accused of prostitution.
A suicide bomber tried to kill a Saudi prince by detonating TNT hidden in a body cavity.
Yesterday a man was charged with a coordinated terror plot that included Springfield. John and Cisco got the latest on the story from Todd Starnes with Fox News Radio.
Rod Blagojevich's book tour continues. He appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart last night.
Chris Wallace joined John and Cisco to preview Fox News Sunday, and also weigh in on Thursday's terror arrests in Springfield and around the country.
The Obama administration may have been trying to silence insurance companies that came out against his health care plan. House Republicans call for a hearing on the ‘Gag Order’. John and Cisco checked in with Congressman Peter Roskam.
A Chicago man wrote in his will that his family would not get their inheritence if they married outside of the Jewish faith. The state supreme court has ruled in his favor. Is it alright for someone to do that to their family? If you were in the family would you give them their share of the money anyway?

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Gaddafi Re-Translated

Posted by: John & Cisco at 12:45 PM

Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi spoke at the UN this week. We've conducted our own translation of what he had to say.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Thursday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 8:08 AM

Cisco is taking the day off because he and his wife just might be welcoming their first child into the world soon. We'll update you as much as possible.
Monday morning when John and Cisco talked to Andrew Breitbart from BigGovernment.com, he said that if ACORN launched a lawsuit against James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, he said it would be like Christmas for Conservatives. Well yesterday the Maryland branch of ACORN did just that.
President Obama addressed the UN yesterday, along with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Moammar Gadhafi. Does the UN lose all relevance when Presidents speak at the same podium as two bit dictators? John talked about it with Cliff May from the Foundation for the Defense for Democracies.
Byron York from the Washington Examiner joined John to talk about the status Congress going into the 2010 elections. New polling suggested that the Democrat lead on the Republicans has evaporated.
Gun of The Day: 72 year-old man with concealed carry permit shoots would-be robber.
A Batavia woman has been fined $200 for stealing her neighbors cat and dumping it in the woods. She has been fined $200, but the family wants her to be forced to pick up roadkill. Which punishment do you think is appropriate?

Shawon Dunston has dropped his request for college money that the was in his original contract with the Cubs.

Parents tell their kids that honesty is the best policy, but a new poll suggests that most lie to their kids. What do you think will be the first that Cisco will have to lie to his daughter about?

Congressman Joe Wilson now has his own action figure.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wednesday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:14 AM

Americans are as mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore! A new Rasmussen poll says that Sixty-six percent of voters are angry at the policies of the federal government.
Former Cicero Mayor Betty Loren-Maltese has filed a $40 million lawsuit against 27 people inolved in her corruption trial and subsequent incarceration. The lawsuit alleges Loren-Maltese's constitutional rights were violated.
Will Ferrell and several other celebrities have created a video on the health care debate. When celebrities get inolved in politics, does that make you less likely to pay money to see their other work?
A BB gun-wielding man prompted lockdown at a Pennsylvania school. It turned out that he was just firing cats who were attacking the pigeons that he raises for a living. Was the school overreacting or just playing it safe?
President Obama is at the United Nations this week. Yesterday he said that climate change could soon create an "irreversible catastrophe." John and Cisco talked to Steve Milloy, editor of JunkScience.com and author of "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do About It."
The Tuscon school district has set up discipline program that treats the minority students differently from the rest of the students. Is it fair to treat kids differently because of race?
California police used a Taser on an unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair. Was it excessive force or justified since the man was no cooperating?
Finally there is a way that people who are less than enthusiastic about the Chicago 2016 Olympics can show their support for the bid: Chicagoansforrio.com.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tuesday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:14 AM

John and Cisco Health Desk: A new study suggests that by 2050 fifty percent of the population may have dementia.
President Obama continued his health care tour with an appearance on David Letterman's show last night. He addressed the issued of racism by saying that he was black before he was elected President.
A California town has voted to charge people $200 for bogus 911 calls. Do you think that's fair since they waste tax dollars and time or is it too easy to accidentally dial them?
BigGovernment’s latest bombshell: Conference call audio reveals the Obama White House was using the National Endowment for the Arts to push a partisan agenda. John and Cisco got the details on the story from Washington Examiner reporter David Freddoso.
Chicago police are investigating a deadly incident of road rage. Have you ever apologized for cutting someone off? Is it better to apologize or just move on?
General Stanley McChrystal is saying that more troops are need in Afghanistan, but according to The Politico, President Obama is skeptical about whether or not adding more troops will make a difference. John and Cisco talked to Josh Gerstein, White House reporter for Politico.com.
Gun of The Day Update: Naked, gun-toting 91 year old man helps arrest home intruder.
State Senator Dan Duffy is leading a protest against the company that makes red light cameras. Do you think that they should ban red light cameras?
Moments in Racial Insensitivity: A white police officer in Philadelphia has been told that he can't have cornrows in his hair and must get them cut off. Who told him to get his hair cut? His black supervisor.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Andrew Breitbart Talks About the ACORN Videos and More

Posted by: John & Cisco at 11:27 AM

Andrew Brietbart joined us today to talk about the series of videos produced by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles exposing the corruption in ACORN offices around the country. The videos can be seen at BigGovernment.com.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 6:25 AM

A South Carolina town has wrecked two police cruisers in the past couple of years, so now the mayor has decided to end all police chases. The mayor also seems to believe that there will be no more crime until their insurance rates come down again.
John Edwards is back in the news. We knew that he was having an affair while his wife is dying of cancer, but it turns out that he had a campaign aide take the fall when she became pregnant. Edwards also told the young lady that he would marry her once his wife died, and that Dave Matthews would be there.
Was Alcohol Involved?: Man falls to his death trying to recreate a UFC move.
Another great example of government-run health care: Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair. Yes, he was a patient at a state mental health facility.
Najibullah Zazi, the man under FBI investigation for alleged ties to a New York subway terror plot has admitted he has ties to Al Qaeda. How was this plot uncovered? Does this have any significance for the CIA interrogation probe? John and Cisco talked to Mike Baker, a former covert CIA operations officer.
Completely heartless lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a special tax on dogs.
As promised, Oprah paid the tab for her lovefest on Michigan Avenue. It was $54,000. Does $54k sound a little low for shutting down a major street in the third largest city in the coutry for two days?
Bob Schillerstrom is one of the many Republicans who have thrown their hat in the ring for the nomination for governor in 2010. You can get more information at BobforIllinois.com.
Moment of Cisco Pettiness: President Obama seems to be suffering some forgetfullness about his family. He got his daughter's name wrong, and he also incorrectly said that she had an illness that she did not.
John and Cisco talked to Andrew Breitbart, the founder of BigGovernment.com, the website that broke the ACORN corruption story wide open.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Would You Wear This Belt?

Posted by: John & Cisco at 9:45 AM

John Howell has been showing up to work wearing this belt, given to him by his girlfriend. Today, Cisco and the rest of the staff called him out on it.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Friday on John and Cisco

Posted by: John & Cisco at 7:49 AM

A Kentucky football coach has been cleared of negligence in the death of one of his football players. Do you think a coach should be held accountable for the death of a player?
Several of the nation's leading health experts are calling for a tax on soda as a means of curbing America's obesity-epidemic. Is it a good idea to tax behavior like that?
A Washington state woman claims that she has been pulled over thirty times just because she's pretty. Her friends actually put a sign on her car reading "Attention police, do not pull me over just because I'm pretty."
President Obama announced yesterday that the planned missile defense shield for eastern Europe is being scrapped. John and Cisco got the details from Alastair Wanklyn from Fox News Radio in London, and Washington Times national security reporter Bill Gertz.
A 60-year-old Mississippi woman can see again after nine years of blindness. Doctors implanted one of her teeth with a small lense in it in her eye socket and now she can see.
Chris Wallace joined John and Cisco to preview Fox News Sunday, and talk about President Obama snubbing Fox News in his tour of Sunday morning talk shows.
An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after taking bath-time photos of their children and then trying to have them developed at Walmart are suing the state and the retail giant. Do they have a case or was Walmart right to turn in the pictures.
Former Cubs Shortstop Shawon Dunston has sent a letter to the Cubs bankruptcy judge to block the sale of the team. He says that the Cubs have not paid for college tutition as they promised in his original contract.
Michael Medved weighed in on the ACORN saga, plus he also had reviews of Jennifers Body, Love Happens and Bright star.