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Beyond politics | Obama Chronicles
Race For Office &bull TodayThis entry was posted on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under obama chicago tribune, obama chronicles, obama news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Full Story »
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Gabrielle Cusumano: "Planned Economy or Planned Destruction" Scary 1934 Cartoon
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull TodaySee scary editorial cartoon printed in Chicago Tribune in 1934, it's so relevant to today's economy and politics. Full Story »
Kant Patel et al - Health Care Politics And Policy in America
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Tim Giago: Waste` (Wash-tay) Chicago; Omaha no good
Huffington Post &bull Yesterday
Relocation was designed to encourage and entice Native Americans living on the reservations to relocate to the seven cities of gold where jobs were supposed to be plentiful. Unemployment on the Indian reservations was (and still is) catastrophic with figures… Full Story »
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Ireland's PM: Chicago isn't a 'second city'
Chicago Sun-Times &bull Yesterday
The Prime Minister of Ireland, Brian Cowen, assured a St. Patricks Day crowd in Chicago Friday night that the Irish government does not consider this a second city. Full Story »
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Ad Hoc Comments: Obama the demagogue
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull YesterdayObama's roots in slimy, underhanded Chicago politics are making themselves known in his manipulation of the mob. He's always able to aim his mob of sycophants and mindless idolaters against whatever target he chooses.... Full Story »
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Sally E. Thorne - Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic Illness
sponsored listing • Shopping.comContributing a unique perspective to health reform, Negotiating Health Care presents the findings of a large qualitative investigation of the experiences of the chronically ill within today's health care system. The author develops the argument that chronic illness and acute illness are social...Full Story »
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Stephen Herrington: A House Divided
Huffington Post &bull Mar 12, 2010
There is plenty of political blame to go around. Much needs to be done to re-reform the freshly deregulated financial system that took a scant ten years to bring us all to our financial knees. High finance seems to care not that the golden goose of America, its middle class, is all but gone. They care not that the higher profits of the next quarter will, one day soon, cease. It seems as if the less prosperous we become as a nation, the more important it is to focus on short term profits. Now everyone in politics fixates on the… Full Story »
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Good Triangulation
The Plank &bull Mar 12, 2010
I think the "liberals say X," conservatives say Y," I'm the rational man in the middle" trope is overused by pundits and politicians. If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled politician… Full Story »
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Tower, French market win big at real estate show
Chicago Sun-Times &bull Mar 12, 2010
A new office tower along the Chicago River and a market for independent food sellers received top honors Thursday night at the annual Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards, considered the Oscars of the industry. Named best redevelopment of 2009 was… Full Story »
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Former northern Indiana mayor, aides to pay $108M
Seattle Times &bull Mar 12, 2010
The suit says former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick and others spent $24 million in public money on private driveways, patios and walkways to court voters in 1999. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says it's the first time a city… Full Story »
Thomas Stephen Szasz - Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America
sponsored listing • Shopping.comIn recent decades, American medicine has become increasingly politicized and politics has become increasingly medicalized. Behaviors previously seen as virtuous or wicked, wise or unwise are now dealt with as "healthy" or "sick"--unwanted behaviors to be controlled as if they were public health issues...Full Story »
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David Finkle: The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula
Huffington Post &bull Mar 11, 2010
Kander and Ebb followed that blockbuster with Chicago, wherein numbers shed cynical light on American corruption as exemplified in a big city during, again, the Jazz Age. Approaching Manual Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, the pair surrounded a harsh… Full Story »
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Sarah Palin Expected To Testify At Knoxville Trial Of Obama Campaign Operative Who Hacked Her E-mail Account A Time For Choosing
thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com via @SPWBT &bull Mar 11, 2010Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is expected to be a witness at a University of Tennessee student's internet fraud trial next month. A motions hearing Wednesday addressed several procedural issues U.S. District Judge Clifford Shirley expects to rule on at a pre-trial conference in two weeks. University of Tennessee student David Kernell, now 22, is accused of accessing Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) while she was Sen. John McCain's running mate. Palin was governor at the time. If convicted on counts two and four of the indictment, Kernell faces a maximum punishment of 20 years… Full Story »
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The Winner and Still Champion, the Olympic (Ka-Ching!) Movement
Truthdig &bull Mar 11, 2010
As recounted in Alfred Senn's "Power, Politics, and the Olympics," the IOC saw Los Angeles' bare-bones budget as an affront, with IOC head Lord Killanin saying that his body would make its own determination if "economical" meant "uncomfortable." Relations with… Full Story »
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Giannoulias Gets His Team Together
CQ Politics &bull Mar 11, 2010
Chicago Shift. Now that state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is the Democratic Senate nominee in Illinois, he's brought on a new campaign manager and spokeswoman. Full Story »
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City Councils calls on Obama to deliver immigration reform
Chicago Sun-Times &bull Mar 10, 2010
Three months after forcing the Obama administration to drop deportation proceedings against University of Illinois at Chicago student Rigo Padilla, Hispanic aldermen pushed through a resolution aimed at lighting a fire under the former U.S. senator from Chicago. The resolution… Full Story »
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Teddy Reagan: Correctly Label Obama First, Then Attack
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 10, 2010We conservatives are mocked and ridiculed these days due to inaccurate portrayals of who Barack Obama is. I believe we have ignorantly labeled him as a Communist, a Nazi, a Socialist, a closet Muslim, a flaming liberal, etc.. Who is Barack Obama? What word or words truly describe him? Before we can answer these questions, we… Full Story »
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Obama's power lunch with Chicago CEO's: McDonald's, Motorola, United Airlines, TransUnion
Sun Times - Lynn Sweet &bull Mar 9, 2010
WASHINGTON--President Obama is lunching Tuesday with four top executives from Chicago area companies, including TransUnion's Penny Pritzker, the woman who chaired Obama's finance committee. Today, President Obama will host four business leaders at the White House for a lunch meeting… Full Story »
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Wreckonciliation
AlterNet &bull Mar 9, 2010
Here's my beef: We, the women of America, are being told by those on-high, starting with those who might have been at the White House on International Women's Day, including Nancy Pelosi-the most important woman in America right about now-that American women's most fundamental right, our right to control our reproductive destiny, should be of no consequence in the effort to reform healthcare. Yup, Madame Speaker, right-about-now healthcare reform is about nothing but abortion,… Full Story »
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Townhall.com Staff: ACLU Prints Lies in the Times
Townhall.com - Blog &bull Mar 8, 2010Guest post from the American Civil Rights Union The ACLU is trying to push President Obama to maintain the decision that he (not Attorney General Holder) made to try the 9/11 defendants in ordinary criminal court in New York City.… Full Story »
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Bob Franken: The News That's "Fit to Print" On One Side or Post on the Other
Huffington Post &bull Mar 8, 2010
For those who have tried to ignore this foolishness until now, a brief catch-up: Various Rahm Emanuel supporters have gone on background to complain things are not going well for the Obama presidency because Emanuel doesn't always get his way… Full Story »
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The Bald Eagle: The Census: Even That Gets Politicized By Democrats Nowadays
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull Mar 8, 2010It's the DEMOCRATS that are on the Wrong Side of History Harry Reid Not the Republicans, Both Now and Then! If the Constitution didn't require it, the census likely really isn't worth doing this year. Democrats have been trying over… Full Story »
