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Obama cruises to victory in Maryland
Democrat Barack Obama rolled to victory in Maryland yesterday by getting an overwhelming percentage of the African-American vote and running about even among whites, winning handily in the Baltimore area and suburban Washington, according to exit polling....Tags: Polls, Barack Obama, U.S. Navy, Democratic Party, John McCain
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Spying may have started earlier than police said
A Maryland State Police agent may have used an undercover alias to infiltrate a leftist Mount Vernon cooperative in January 2005 - two months before police say their secret monitoring of death-penalty activists began - according to documents released...Tags: Lawyers, Abortion Issue, Demonstration, Annapolis, Espionage and Intelligence
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R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel
Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, farther south, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of...
Tags: Philosophy, Facebook, NATO Summit, Michigan Avenue, Entertainment Events
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Chicago's parade of protests
As NATO leaders and protesters head this way, let it be noted that Chicago launched the most imitated street demonstration of all. Each year on May 1, myriad trade unionists and socialists parade through cities around the world, commemorating an 1886...
Tags: Chicago, Feminism, Pullman, Demonstration, Chicago Tribune
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Andrew Breitbart dies at 43; conservative Internet entrepreneur who took on the left
Andrew Breitbart, the pugnacious, conservative Internet entrepreneur who took on the left and what he called the "media bully cabal" with a series of exposes that were explosive and sometimes flawed, died early Thursday after collapsing near his home in...Tags: Facebook, Andrew Breitbart, Mitt Romney, Fox News Channel (tv network), Hospitals and Clinics
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Saul, folks
Change of SubjectUPDATED with many new links: Saul Alinsky, really? What small percentage of Americans knows enough about Saul Alinsky to understand Newt Gingrich's continual use of his name to slur President Barack Obama? A list of recent commentaries and relevant... -
'Super PACs' largely funded by a wealthy few
When it comes to big money in politics, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons' influence has long been apparent in Texas, where he has plowed more than $1 million into Rick Perry's gubernatorial campaigns. Now Simmons has found a new outlet for his outsize...Tags: Mitt Romney, Companies and Corporations, Los Angeles Times, Political Fundraising, Barack Obama
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Gingrich points to 'radical' Alinsky in criticizing Obama
Nearly 40 years after his death, Saul Alinsky's name is back in the news, peppered throughout presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's speeches.
A native Chicagoan, Alinsky was "the father of community organizing," said Sanford D. Horwitt, author of "Let...Tags: The Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, Chicago Tribune, Richard J. Daley, University of Chicago
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Occupy Harrisburg Invites Bill Ayers to Speak
Content ManagerActivist Bill Ayers is coming to Harrisburg. Occupy Harrisburg invited Ayers to lead a teach in and discussion at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore on December 14th. He is also expected to visit the ongoing Occupation of the State Capitol steps. Ayers, a...Tags: New York City, Occupy Wall Street, Bill Ayers, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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Ayers error? Did denial of emeritus status violate the First Amendment?
Change of SubjectThe often provocative John K. Wilson writes: (University of Illinois board of trustees chairman Christopher) Kennedy is certainly correct to condemn (retired UIC professor Bill) Ayers for bizarrely including Sirhan Sirhan among a list of “political... -
Fooled by Obama
Smart women know that if a guy is sending mixed signals — promising to call but never getting around to it, making dates and then canceling, professing warm feelings but not introducing you to his friends — it can mean only one thing: He's...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Philosophy, State Budgets, Personal Income, Bill Ayers
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Excerpts from Bill Ayers' book update
Chicago TribuneExcerpts from the new afterword in the re-issue of William Ayers' 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," which recounts his days with the radical 1960s group Weather Underground: "I said that I regretted many things -- for example, in the political movement, I...Tags: Terrorism, Martin Luther King Jr., Death, Chicago Tribune, Bill Ayers
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