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by James Gerstenzang
Mentioning neither William Ayres and the Weather Underground nor the Keating Five, the two hot topics du jour of the presidential campaign, President Bush managed nevertheless to quietly slip himself into the campaign on Monday by delving into a secondary issue: What standards a president should apply [...]
You may have seen my brother Dan's guest post here a couple of weeks ago announcing the launch of CTA Tweet. Or maybe you didn't.
Regardless, I recommend that you take a few minutes to read a story in the Columbia Chronicle about the launch by student [...]
WASHINGTON -- With more polls trending in Barack Obama's direction and with his lead over John McCain growing, the controversial Chicago 3 -- Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko -- won't likely prevent the Illinois senator from being elected president in a few weeks.
In an effort to [...]
Last night the Urbana City Council was very interesting.
The council was voting on a motion to designate 508 W Elm as "historic" against the will of the property owner. Since the owner objected to the motion, 5 votes are required for this motion to pass.
At the last meeting 3 weeks [...]
by Bob Secter
Imagine for a moment if John McCain were running against John McCain. The first John McCain might be having a field day right now attacking the second John McCain for voting in the U.S. Senate last week to approve tens of billions of dollars in earmarks. [...]
Good morning.
Here are a few Washington events of note for Tuesday, October 7.
The second of the three presidential debates between Barack Obama and John McCain is tonight in Nashville.
President Bush is speaking about the $700 billion Wall Street bailout legislation in Chantilly, Va., outside Washington.
The House Oversight and Government [...]
Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to indefinitely postpone Tony Rezko's scheduled Oct. 28 sentencing on corruption charges, acknowledging they are engaged in talks with the former top political fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Blagojevich and others "that could affect . . [...]
Conservative columnist and author Peggy Noonan expressed a quaint, high-minded concern Sunday during her appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Speaking of high-level political strategists in both the Republican and Democratic parties, Noonan said, "some part of me fears they're going to open up the gates of hell" [...]
Our thanks to "James V" in the comments.
I will be flying the Washington, DC on Thursday morning to cover the American's For Prosperity sponsored "Defending the American Dream Summit." I will be live blogging and also having some BlogTalk Radio shows scheduled while I am out there so check in for announcements. [...]
Join us live at 5pm as we talk with Ron Gidwitz about his latest legal action against Governor Blagojevich. Click the logo above to listen in. You can call in as well to ask questions.
[...]WASHINGTON--On May 3, 2007, Barack Obama attended an event at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan that was not on his public schedule and is only now surfacing--a private dinner for Goldman Sachs traders with a discussion on issues moderated for the Wall Street firm by NBC's Tom [...]
Hannity uses Andy Martin to comment on Barack Obama’s dangerous associations:
Yes, THE Andy Martin who started the Obama is a Muslim e-mail and is proud to take credit for it:
Andy Martin Says:
February 1st, 2008 eThank you for crediting me for telling the truth about Barack Obama.At [...]
Wow. We haven’t seen the internals and so all caveats apply, but this race certainly looks to be close and definitely winnable Talking Points Memo reports on the poll done for Roll Call.
What’s interesting here is the first non-partisan poll of late is the only one showing Seals [...]
se our chief executives in a national election. We choose them in a series of state elections held simultaneously.As the bus stopped at 71st and Cottage Grove, she said, a younger man passed by, accidentally brushing the hand of the man who was talking to them
That touch set off an argument, which led to both men showing guns, [...]
g U.S. senator from our home state of Illinois.
CBS2 has the story and a suspect in the shooting of 17-year-old Kiyanna Salters. You can read this earlier blog about the murder as well. I made sure I got a screen capture of the suspect in question.SurveyUSA, an automated polling firm, conducted the surveys for Roll Call on Saturday and Sunday (WHAS-TV in Louisville was a partner on the poll in Indiana's 9th district). Each poll tested more than 600 voters and had an error [...]
The surprising Tampa Bay Devil Rays won game four of the American League Division Series over the White Sox in Chicago. The final score was 6-2. 
