Chicago’s Morning Answer

0:00 – Dan & Amy react to Biden’s 1/6 speech 15:40 – Are your kids in school today? 34:18 – The Time to Resist Vax Passports Is Now 54:45 – Chris Butler, pastor, organizer of the “& Campaign”, and candidate for congress IL 1st District: “the mean voter and mean resident is not being represented” For more on Pastor Chris and his campaign – electchrisbutler.com   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy react to yesterday’s Lightfoot/CPS press conference  11:43 – Dan & Amy take callers reaction to the CPS/CTU fight 28:44 – Dan & Amy want Aaron Rogers on their team  48:14 – CPS teacher, Joseph Ocol, shares why he believes teachers need to be in the classroom.   More

0:00 – Dan offers reaction to last night’s CTU vote and CPS closure 15:02 – Why is Chicago here again?  32:28 – Dan updates the situation at Benet Academy  50:38 – Reed Spaulding IV, MD, contributor to The American Spectator and  practicing pathologist: Omicron: Haven’t We Been Here Before?   More

0:00 – Dan reviews Day 1 of Cook Co’s vaccine passport enforcement  15:30 – Decision day at CTU 32:52 – Benet & OPRF: when do you start doing the right thing?   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy discuss the devastating and  disturbing violence that closed out 2021 13:59 – More Chicago violence over the holidays 30:55 – Dan & Amy react to day 1 of Chicago vax mandates/passes 52:06 – Mayor of Orland Park and candidate for congress (6th district), Keith Pekau, explains why he will not enforce the Cook County Vaccine mandates.   More

0:00 – COVID craziness then and now 10:03 – Paul Vallas critiques Lori Lighfoot’s public safety plan 29:46 – Amy & Paul take caller reaction to Lightfoot’s forthcoming COVID mitigations 50:46 – Fox Business analyst and local restaurateur, Jim Iuorio, takes a look at the economics of Lightfoot’s mitigations.   More

0:00 – Chicago’s Morning Answer nominations for best political song of 2021 13:53 – Chicago’s Morning Answer Best Cry for Freedom Award  30:42 – Dan & Amy react to Lightfoot’s new COVID mitigations 52:57 – David Marcus, columnist living in New York City:  On COVID and crime Democrats assess risk very differently.   More

Dan & Amy react to Mayor Lightfoot’s new plan for Public Safety, and take caller reaction to Lightfoot’s press conference  Watkins Elementary in DC: 3rd graders re-enact the Holocaust Dan & Amy discuss the kidnapped Missionaries escape from Haiti 1:00:35- President at Wirepoints, Ted Dabrowski, gives reaction to the Kim Foxx report and Lightfoot’s Public Safety speechCheck out Ted’s latest – wirepoints.org   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy react to Joe Manchin’s interview with Bret Baier on Sunday 8:40 – Is this what the endemic will look like?  29:03 – Dan & Amy respond to the 6th Circuit Court upholding the vax mandate 50:58 – Dan & Amy call out Ken Griffin 01:04:16 – Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, Lt Col James Carafano, asks where is the connection to public health?   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy react to Biden’s Omicron message 11:45 –  Salvation Army update 25:03 – Dan & Amy look at a California school that reportedly coached a 12 year old into a trans identity 44:02 – Roger Kimball, editor of New Criterion: Civilizational Suicide, Not Omicron, Is Killing Us 57:10 – Fox News Anchor, Bret Baier, offers a DC perspective on BBB and COVID.   More

0:00 – Who will you vote for Governor? 10:24 – Will Lori Lightfoot follow London Breed’s lead? 26:54 – When will Adam Schiff be disbarred?  42:56 – Dan & Amy, Sen John Kennedy and the NeoJacobins 01:01:56 – Senior writer for National Review and author of Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent, David Harsanyi: The Build Back Better Pivot.   More

0:00 – Biden: freedom? what about patriotism? what’s the big deal? 9:45 – Amy recounts her run-in with Gov JB at yesterday’s press conference  27:59 – Will private security patrols in Bucktown cut down crime?    More

0:00 – Dan & Amy revisit and take caller reaction to yesterday’s interview with Joe Perillo 10:15 – What would an “Enough is Enough” program look like?  30:18 – Dan & Amy look into what kids are experiencing in schools 48:37 – Darren Bailey candidate for Governor & Stephanie Trussell candidate for Lt Governor, have teamed together to save Illinois.   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy review another crime filled weekend in Chicago 12:26 – Dan & Amy address the “hopelessly conflicted, sentimental barbarism affecting Chicago” 29:56 – Neocon Norm on the war against cultural Marxism 52:44 – Dan & Amy decipher the correct use of “latinx” 01:03:51 – Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation and author of Brutal War: Jungle Fighting in Papua New Guinea, 1942, Lt Col James Carafano, says he’s worried the next 9/11 will come from illegal border crossers.   More

0:00 – Jussie Smollett found guilty but was it a waste of resources?  12:08 – Road Rage Rachael 29:09 – Tucker on 1/6 Commission w/ John Eastman 45:26 – US Senator from WI, Ron Johnson, on the national fight against vaccine mandates  01:00:19 – Karol Markowicz joins the exodus to Florida and you should too 01:18:50 – Jesse Sullivan tells Dan & Amy why he’s running for Illinois Governor.   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy weigh Jussie Smollett’s chances now that his trial has gone to the jury 11:00 – The Thornley Affair 26:47 – New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern: no end point to vaccination program 48:13 – John Tamny, editor of RealClearMarkets, Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks and author of When Politicians Panicked, goes Looking For The Source Of Joe Biden’s Hard-Left Rhetoric.   More

0:00 – OMG the Omicron is in Illinois! 12:20 – How do we solve the crime problem in Chicago? 28:13 – Blogger Emma Woodhouse looks into the investigation of Dr Theresa Chapple.   More

0:00 – John Anthony fills in for Dan Proft 11:27 – Omicrom (aa – muh – kraan) 17:19 – Amy & John cross examine Jussie Smollett’s defense strategy 26:19 – Amy & John respond to Lightfoot’s belief that retailers aren’t doing enough to protect themselves from crime  43:22 – Republican US Senator for Indiana, Mike Braun, updates John & Amy national issues including China and the Olympics 01:02:03 – OPRF Parent, Dionna Plywarcz, says the school’s plan to cancel sports makes no sense  01:15:58 – President at Wirepoints, Ted Dabrowski, says we need to a better job and have better candidates if we want to fix Illinois.   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy react to Chicago’s violent weekend including the juvenile MOB hit at Michigan Ave and Millennial Park. 12:32 – Dan & Amy look into Big Blue City violence 32:33 – Dan & Amy respond to OPRF’s plan to ban winter sports 48:20 – Should the Oxford MI shooter’s parents be charged under Michigan law?   More

0:00 – Dan & Amy look over Biden’s winter plan 10:16 – Dan & Amy check out the new bathrooms at CPS 25:59 – Dan & Amy watched the Alec Baldwin’s interview with George Stephanopoulos so you didn’t have to  47:30 – Grace Curley, Host of The Grace Curley Show on WRKO680 Boston, Executive Producer of the Howie Carr Show and columnist for the Boston Herald, explains how Andrew Cuomo is as bad as you thought he was.   More