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The Rob Report

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3/14/2012

Santorum, Super PAC, and Kardashian - Attorneys at Law

Here's the quick and dirty analysis from yesterday's primaries and caucuses. 1- Santorum won Mississippi and Alabama.  Mitt Romney came in third.  Santorum's victory will spark another round of questions about Romney's electability.   If Romney is the nominee, there's no doubt that he will win southern states in the general ... Read more!
3/13/2012

I'm not Them

I was raised Catholic.  I went to high school at St. Ignatius.  I went to college at Marquette.   Jesuit education made me - in ways large and small.  I know Catholic school teachers.  I know Catholic school administrators.  I know people who take trips to Kentucky to build homes. ... Read more!
3/12/2012

Afternoon Nudes Update

Wrong Morris Did I miss a meeting?  The meeting that says you're supposed to take nude photos of yourself and store them on your phone?   It's happened again - hackers have busted into another celebrity cell phone...and found nude pics. Please send a car around back for Heather Morris ... Read more!
3/12/2012

Supertramp Is Right!

I've worked in talk radio long enough to know how a controversy is conceived, incubated, hatched, and nurtured.  Eventually, the discussion goes so far off the rails that people forget what prompted the debate in the first place.   Does anyone even remember what Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke said? ... Read more!
3/9/2012

Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time?

They built the Keystone Pipeline.   No, really. The Keystone Pipeline was finished in February of 2011.  It runs from Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma (the oil pipeline crossroads of America).   So, if the Keystone Pipeline is complete...why are the politicians fighting? The pipeline's owner, TransCanada, wants to build ... Read more!
3/9/2012

When the Great Ship Went Down

Hi, I'm Rob Hart...and I have a confession to make.  I'm interested in the wreck of the Titanic.   This has nothing to do with the movie. I caught the bug as a kid.   Dr. Robert Ballard found the wreck of the Titanic when I was 5.  He returned ... Read more!
3/8/2012

Happy Birthday to the Sox Savior

Being a White Sox fan means you're always playing the game of "what if?"   What if Jerry Dybzinski didn't get caught in that rundown in the 1983 ALCS? What if the starting pitching held up during the second half of the 2006 season? What if Carlos Quentin didn't break ... Read more!
3/8/2012

Too Good to be True

It's hard to believe now - but Geraldo Rivera was once a big star.  He burst onto the scene in 1970 as a local news reporter at WABC-TV in New York.  In 1972, he won a Peabody Award for his investigation into abuse of mentally retarded patients at a state-run school.  That ... Read more!
3/7/2012

Flare Down

I don't want to alarm you...but a Class X solar flare is heading towards our planet.  Also known as "Earth."  What can you expect?  NASA says: "When aimed directly at Earth, X-class solar flares can endanger astronauts and satellites in orbit, interfere with satellite communications and damage power grids ... Read more!
3/7/2012

Good Ol' Reliable Mitt Romney

Political analysis would not be complete without the tortured sports metaphor.  So here goes.   Do you remember Adam Dunn?  Not the 2011 White Sox version, but the feared slugger who played for the Reds and the Washington Nationals?  Back when he could hit the ball a country mile, sports ... Read more!
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