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Ray Hanania is an award-winning former Chicago City Hall reporter & columnist writing from the frontlines of Chicago's rough & tumble politics. Hanania writes a syndicated column on politics, media, and a wide range of topics including seniors and humor. He also writes and host a radio show on Middle East issues for the prestigious Arab News Newspaper at ArabNews.com/rayradioshow. You can subscribe to his 4-Times Weekly Syndicated columns by visiting https://RayHanania.com

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning former Chicago City Hall reporter & columnist writing from the frontlines of Chicago's rough & tumble politics. Hanania writes a syndicated column on politics, media, and a wide range of topics including seniors and humor. He also writes and host a radio show on Middle East issues for the prestigious Arab News Newspaper at ArabNews.com/rayradioshow. You can subscribe to his 4-Times Weekly Syndicated columns by visiting https://RayHanania.com

    03-07-24 Super Tuesday Trump Nikki Haley & anti-Biden protest, 3rd Party Robert F. Kennedy Jr

    03-07-24 Super Tuesday Trump Nikki Haley & anti-Biden protest, 3rd Party Robert F. Kennedy Jr

    03-07-24 S3E8 Super Tuesday results with Trump Nikki Haley and anti-Biden protest, 3rd Party Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the effort to keep Trump off the ballot

    "Ray Hanania on Politics podcast"

    "Two Guys on Politics": Lipinski and Hanania discuss the Super Tuesday election results, the negative role the mainstream news media is playing int he election strengthening Trump, assertions that many of the voters supporting Nikki Haley were Democrat who crossover votes, and discuss the efforts by 3 states who sought to remove Trump from their ballots and the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision to block that illegal move.

    They discuss how the media's biased manipulation of news attacking Trump is actually strengthening Trump among voters. If Trump wins, it's the mainstream news media that should be blamed, not what failed candidate Hillary Clinton asserted were the immoral conduct of the "deplorables," wnyone, she said, who supported Trump.


    Both Lipinski and Hanania say that if a candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., can make it to the November ballot, he would be abetter choice than either Trump or Biden.


    “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest.Bill Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman & Alderman of Chicago’s 23rd Ward. Lipinski was elected to Congress in 1983 and served through 2005. He currently writes the “Right from the Center” opinion column at https://BillLipinski.com

    Ray Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 and writes mainstream opinion columns for The Southwest News Newspaper Group.

    Subscribe to his syndicated columns by visiting https://www.Hanania.com;

    Hanania also writes Middle East columns and news for the Arab News Newspaper https://www.ArabNews.com

    Our web address is www.TwoGuysonPolitics.com

    Our Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/TwoGuysOnPolitics

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    02-29-24 S3E7 Biden, Trump #AbandonBiden Arabs in Michigan election, the No Labels Party & Robert F. Kennedy Jr's candidacy

    02-29-24 S3E7 Biden, Trump #AbandonBiden Arabs in Michigan election, the No Labels Party & Robert F. Kennedy Jr's candidacy

    02-29-24 S3E7 Biden, Trump #AbandonBiden Arabs in Michigan election, the No Labels Party & Robert F. Kennedy Jr's candidacy

    Two Guys on Politics: Lipinski and Hanania discuss the
    Michigan elections and the results involving President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, GOP challenger Nikki Halley, and the impact of the #AbandonBiden campaign of anti-Biden protests in the Arab and Muslim community. Will the anti-Biden Arab/Muslim protest vote prevent Biden from winning the November 5, 2024 Presidential/General election? Will Trump be convicted before the Republican Convention or before the election? WHy is Nikki Haley still in the election against Trump and what does or can she expect in the upcoming months?

    Hanania and Lipinski also discuss updates on the "No Label" independent political party, and the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Can a third Party candidate win? WOuld No Labels embrace Kennedy? What happens if no one gets enough Electoral College Votes in the election, if neither Biden nor Trump win enough Electoral College Votes (the winner needs 270 ECV)?

    “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest.

    Bill Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman/Alderman of Chicago’s 23rd Ward. Lipinski was elected to Congress in 1983 and served through 2005. He currently writes the “Right from the Center” opinion column at BillLipinski.com

    Ray Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 and writes mainstream opinion columns for The Southwest News Newspaper Group

    Go to https://www.Hanania.com to sign up for his syndicated columns

    Hanania also writes Middle East columns and news for the Arab News Newspaper https://www.ArabNews.com

    Our web address is www.TwoGuysonPolitics.com

    Our Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/TwoGuysOnPolitics

    Subscribe to Ray Hanania's columns at https://www.Hanania.com or https://RayHanania.com

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    02 28 24 Osama SIblani Publisher of Arab American News on Gaza and the anti Biden campaign

    02 28 24 Osama SIblani Publisher of Arab American News on Gaza and the anti Biden campaign

    02 28 24 Osama SIblani Publisher of Arab American News on Gaza and the anti Biden campaign

    Arab American News Newspaper publisher explains the depths of concerns of Arab Americans towards President Joe Biden and his inaction and failure to prevent Israel from continuing its genocide against Palestinians int he Gaza Strip.

    On Tuesday Feb. 27, 2024, Arab, Muslims and allies in the African American and Asian communities voted "uncommitted" in the Michigan Democratic Primary as a protest against Biden's primary nomination. Michigan is one of a handful of states in which Biden only narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump in 2020.

    More than 100,000 voters voted "uncommitted" rather than voting for Biden. Siblani discusses some of the insights that expose Biden's weakness, including that the Republican Primary attracted more than 1.1 million voters, while the Democratic primary barely received 750,000 total votes casts howing that the Democrtaic base in Michigan is in jeopardy.

    Siblani also discusses whether the protest can sustain itself through the Nov. 5, 2024 Presidential Elections where Biden is expected to once again face-off with Trump.

    Siblani's website is www.ArabAmericanNews.com

    For more information on Ray Hanania visit his Syndicated column page at www.RayHanania.com or www.Hanania.com



    #Podcast #Video @OsamaSiblani Publisher of #ArabAmericanNews discusses protest against Pres @JoeBiden in Michigan's Primary 2-27-24 over his failure to stop Israeli slaughter in #GazaStrip & impact on the Nov 5 presidential election vs @realDonaldTrump @rayhanania https://youtu.be/iCsubRWu8fU?si=IWedSGuAIZmjEwpr

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    02-15-24 Interview with Radio Host Mohammed Faheem S6E3

    02-15-24 Interview with Radio Host Mohammed Faheem S6E3

    02-15-24 Interview with Radio Host Mohammed Faheem S6E3

    Ray Hanania on Politics for Feb. 15, 2024 interviews Mohammed Faheem, the cohost of The Lightning Strike Radio SHow on WCPT 820 AM Progressive Talk Radio.

    Faheem co-hosts the show with former 45th Ward Ald. John Arena and the two discuss a wide range of issues including politics.

    Hanania and Faheem discuss the challenges that Arab Christians and Muslims, Muslims and people of color including Indians and Pakistanis and others face in an America that doesn't always have the knowledge about issues they face each day.

    Faheem is Indian and offers a perspective that isnot often heard in America.Visit https://www.TLSChicago.com for more information on the program each week and the scheduled guests.

    For more information Ray Hanania, visit https://RayHanania.com

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    01 30 24 Mahnoor Ahmad candidate for the 6th District on bias in 6th District S6E2

    01 30 24 Mahnoor Ahmad candidate for the 6th District on bias in 6th District S6E2

    01 30 24 Mahnoor Ahmad candidate for the 6th District on bias in 6th District

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    By Ray Hanania

    Mahnoor Ahmad, who is running for the 6th Congressional District candidate seat in the March 19, 2024 Democratic Primary Election, has been the targeted of bias and attacks from members of the Illinois Democratic Party.Democrats, fearing that incumbent Congressman Sean Casten will loose to her int he primary election, have been banning her from participating in Democratic candidate forums.

    Ahmad participated in the forums hosted by the League of Woman Voters in Elmhurst and in a forum in Naperville, but has been criticized by Democrats because protestors angry with Casten's unresponsive policies over the past two years have demanded that he be accountable. They are blaming Ahmad for the protests -- because she happens to be Muslim, a woman of color, and a minority.

    Ahmad also supports a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war to prevent the killing of more civilians. More than 30,000 people have been massacred in Gaza in the past four months.The Democratsare so desperate, they have even blocked her from participating in public forums in Milton Township, which includes the city of Wheaton, and she is being attacked by other Democrats.

    Ahmad is the only candidate who is speaking to the voters int he district as an American who believes in free speech and equality for all. Her issues fighting for the rights of seniors, who have been abandoned by Casten, resnotes with senior voters.No wonder Casten and his unresponsive Democratic minions have been angry and are working to exclude her from the election campaign.THIS IS AMERICA, not Russia. Sean. Ahmad is more American than you!



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    01-30-24 Washington Post attack on Women in Saudi Arabia is political hypocrisy S6E1

    01-30-24 Washington Post attack on Women in Saudi Arabia is political hypocrisy S6E1

    01-30-24 Washington Post attack on Women in Saudi Arabia is political hypocrisy S6E1

    By Ray Hanania

    S6E1 Jan. 30, 2024



    Tennis stars Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova co-wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, one of America'smost influential and hypocritical newspapers in the country.

    The Washington Post is not the same fiercely independent newspaper of the 1970s Watergate years, but rather is today a biased partisan political platform that slams the Arab World, denigrates Arabs and Muslims, closes its eyes to anti-Palestinian brutality and hypocrisy -- publishing only enough, but not enough -- and pandering to the far Left against mainstream and conservative Americans.



    The Evert/Navratilova column urges that Saudi Arabia not be permitted to host the Women's Tennis Association finals because of "discrimination against women."

    The problem of course is that Evert/Navratilova are silent on the continued discrimination against women that exists right here int he United States. Are women equal in the United States? American men claim they are but they are not. They don't get equal pay. They are the victims of domestic violence far more often than men. They are not treated equally with men in business and coprorate life.

    But American spins a tale of equality that is just not true.

    When was the last time a woman was elected President?

    The fact is nations in this qworld evolve at different paces.

    In 2019, Saudi Arabia began a program to expand the freedoms of women, making them equal.

    Every religious society, including Christians, Muslims and Jews, discriminate in some form against women. Saudi Arabia, an Islamic nation, is working to expand women's rights.

    Instead of attacking them, they should encourage them.

    But the issue really isn't women's rights.

    The issue is politics. The issue is Saudi Arabia's politics. The issue is their criticism of Israel, their criticism of some American policies. And, their criticism of the hypocrisies that American politicians impose on others, including the Arab and Muslim world.

    Women in Saudi Arabia are leading the freedom movement and they should be encouraged. Nothing happens over night. And it doesn't happen on the hypocritical and politically motivated schedule of the United States, which continues to discriminate against women, Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Arabs and many other minorities across the board.

    Here are some of the changes in Saudi Arabia on the rights of Women:

    Below are the legal advancements for women as of August 2019:
     On equal footing with men, women over the age of 21 may obtain a passport and
    travel abroad without the permission of a male relative.
     Women can now travel outside of the country without a male guardian.
     Women may register as a “head of household,” and identified as such on family
    ID Cards and papers, which gives them the right to legally act on their children’s
    behalf.
     Women may register the births of their children.
     Women received increased protection from employment discrimination.
     Women’s retirement age is the same as men’s retirement age (60 years of age).
     The closest female relatives, who are at least 18 years of age, can report cases
    of death.
    o Previously, the responsibility lied on the closest male relative, among
    others.
     Women may claim their own place of residency.
    o Previously, the place of residency for a woman is where her husband/legal
    guardian resides.
     Women may not be fired for pregnancy.
    o Previously, women could be fired for exceptions to the law. Those
    exceptions have been removed.
     Women have equal authority to register cases of marriage and divorce.
    o Previously, the responsibility lied primarily on men.



    Here are some links:

    Click here for the statement by Saudi Ambassador to the US

    Click here for the AP story on Evert/Navratilova

    Click here for an overview of women's rights advances in Saudi Arabia

    Click here for an overview of the slow stru

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