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The hypocritical politics of rich left-wingers
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of...
Tags: Democratic Party, Occupy Wall Street, Entertainment Events, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy, Jr., White House, Howard Lawrence Berman, U.S. Senate
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Memories of 2012: Long voting lines, too many gun tragedies
A simmering rage was building, with South Florida rallies featuring celebrities wearing hoodies and high school kids holding up bags of Skittles. This was a month after Miami-Dade high school student Trayvon Martin was killed in Central Florida by...
Tags: Barack Obama, Health and Safety at School, Charlie Crist, U.S. Senate, Murder
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The Fugs still riotous after all these years
The Fugs finally return to Chicago on Saturday at the City Winery after a 44-year absence. The reception for the band is bound to be a bit warmer than it was when the counter-culture pioneers last performed here, on Dec. 28, 1968, at the Aragon Ballroom....
Tags: Poetry, Frank Sinatra, Folk (genre), Richard M. Daley, Jazz (genre)
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Eva Longoria embraces political clout
Forget Barack Obama. This inauguration isn't about him. It's all about Eva Longoria. Of the five Desperate Housewives who might have turned into political power brokers, I would have bet last on Gaby. Susan maybe, with her bright smile and loyalty...
Tags: New Year's Day, Entertainment Events, Golden Globe Awards, Desperate Housewives (tv program), Eva Longoria
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Christie's approval ratings soar as reelection campaign begins
NEW YORK -- First he appeared with President Obama, a Democrat, after Hurricane Sandy. Then he and his fleece jacket showed up on “Saturday Night Live,” mocking mayors who ignored his evacuation orders. Now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Natural Disasters, Quinnipiac University, Executive Branch
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Making Every Vote In Every State Count
The Hartford CourantObama supporters, the final national numbers coming in show that your candidate won re-election by more than 4 million votes. That wouldn't matter, though, if just under 150,000 votes in the swing states went the other way. Mitt Romney would have...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Andrew Fleischmann, John Kerry
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Real veep meets The Onion's Joe Biden
Let's be clear: The real Vice President Joe Biden says he doesn’t drink, definitely has never sported a pony tail, didn't hitchhike his way to the Democratic National Convention, and isn't serving a lifetime ban from Dave & Busters. Nor has he ever...
Tags: Joe Biden, White House, Onions, Scranton, Social Media
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Lawrence Guyot dies at 73; longtime civil rights activist
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who was threatened, jailed and nearly beaten to death in the Deep South in the 1960s and helped lead a drive to register black voters during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964, has died. He was 73. The longtime...
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Rutgers University, Labor Legislation, Voting
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A promise interrupted
Even in Chicago, a city whose political community is not easily shocked by allegations of corruption, the resignation of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. comes as a bit of a stunner. The word "promising" keeps popping up again and again in news reports as in, for...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Ethics, White House, Rod Blagojevich
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Readers question play of Mitt Romney, Neil Armstrong stories
Readers' Representative JournalThe front page of Sunday's Times featured a large profile of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a preview to the GOP National Convention, which was to begin Monday. A similar profile of President Obama is scheduled for this coming...... -
Is sleep deprivation the reason the Romney campaign is blowing it?
Arianna Huffington"Saturday Night Live" opened its new season with a sketch in which President Obama acknowledges that "things aren't great, the economy's in the tank" and "the job market is horrible," but says he's not worried because his campaign has a "secret weapon" to...Tags: Barack Obama, 2012 Republican National Convention, The New York Times, Arianna Huffington, Mitt Romney
Dec 7, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 21, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 29, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Nov 27, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 20, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 26, 2012
|Column| Hartford Courant
Jan 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 25, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 25, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 28, 2012
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Sep 19, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
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