Sep 4, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune
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Flawed conceptThe reported "initiative meeting" ("Weis, feds meet with gang leaders," News, Aug. 29) where Chicago Police Department officials and other law-enforcement agencies (county, state and federal) appeared at a community meeting to lecture...
Sep 4, 2010 |Column| Orlando Sentinel
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That professor at the University of Central Florida should be ashamed for trying to get out of a traffic ticket. Pay up and grow up.Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, doesn't want President Obama to take credit for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. So...
Sep 3, 2010 |Story| Associated Press
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life.In an appearance Friday on NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," the 19-year-old daughter of...
Sep 3, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune
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Sarah Palin has managed to set the blogosphere ablaze again, this time after appearing to use sexual metaphors to slam mainstream media reporters who rely on anonymous sources."Those who are impotent and limp and gutless and they go on their anonymous...
Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune
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Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk are wounded rivals running neck and neck for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.After a bruising summer of controversies, both major party...
Aug 26, 2010 |Blog| Chicago Tribune
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The Swamp
by Mike Memoli Jim Oliphant and I wrote in the Tribune papers today about how Tuesday's results show how the tea party movement continues to confound expectations just as the political establishment gets ready to write them off. But the......
Aug 25, 2010 |Blog| Chicago Tribune
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The Swamp
by Mike Memoli Sarah Palin's biggest political victory this year could come in her home state, where her endorsed candidate for Senate holds a surprising lead over incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary. With all but nine......
Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
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The defeat of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Republican primary is another notch in the belt for the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a project of Republican consultant Sal Russo. --------------------FOR THE RECORD:Tea Party Express: An...
Sep 2, 2010 |Column| Hartford Courant
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Sacred time.Sacred ground.While it is not the ground zero of New York's twin towers, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech established Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as a sacred place and time. It...
Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Baltimore Sun
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Maryland primary voters hit the polls Friday for the state's first-ever experience with early voting — a dry run, candidates and election officials say, for the weeklong voting period before the general election in November.The new system has cast...
Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
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HARRISBURG — As if Gov. Ed Rendell doesn't have enough on his legislative plate this fall, what with a coming debate over a tax on natural gas drillers, he's also heading out on the stump to shake the money tree for national Democrats.On Oct. 16,...
Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
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ABC announced the pro dancer/celebrity pairings Wednesday for the 11th season of "Dancing With the Stars," which premieres with a two-hour show 8 p.m. Sept. 20.I'm left to wonder: Will pro dancer Derek Hough, who's taken home two mirror ball trophies in...