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• in Technorati Women
  Why NOW Doesn't Represent Me
  Endorsing a Woman in the Chicago Mayoral Race Doesn't Show A True Understanding of the Issues Important to Women
  by ShariSchmidt / on Jan 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “chicago politics”

 

• Summer road trip recommendation: Illinois Ronald Reagan Trail

  
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  The liberal Rockford Register Star wrote about the Ronald Reagan Trail yesterday. Which reminded me, that we are nearing summer road trip season. Two Junes ago I drove the entire trail, which includes Dutchs birthplace and his boyhood home in Dixon--along with many interesting places in between, including Reagans ...
  3 days ago

• Obama advisor always looking for someone else to blame

  
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  “ After Obama’s roughest week, ” reports Brian Hughes of the Washington Examiner, “White House points finger at GOP”: White House officials on Sunday dismissed Republican attacks over three simmering scandals as a partisan witch hunt, hoping to put behind them President Obama’s single worst week in ...
  4 days ago

• Surprisingly few actual consequences for outraging Obama

  
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  “ There is “, writes Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades, . . . a fundamental disconnect between the White House’s actions and the White House’s words on the IRS scandal. The White House has repeatedly claimed that the President is “outraged” over the targeting — but there are surprisingly few actual ...
  4 days ago

• In 2008, we told you Obama wasn’t the man you (thought you) were voting for. . .

  
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  “ [E]ven among Obama voters, ” writes Heather Long in Friday’s Guardian, reflecting on a variety of factors, including the number of scandals coming to light, “there should be genuine disappointment. This not the President Obama we voted for, not even close.” She talks about the excitement and exhilaration ...
  5 days ago

• Today, For the First Time in My Adult Life, I Am Proud of This First Lady

  
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  You tell ‘em, FLOTUS! Speaking at the historically black Bowie State University commencement Friday, first lady Michelle Obama called out African American youth for not challenging themselves to excel in school while instead fantasizing about being a “baller or a rapper.” “Today, more than 150 years after ...
  5 days ago

• Did the IRS act progressive groups the same kind of intrusive questions they asked of Tea Party groups? (And if not, why not?)

  
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  If as outgoing Acting Internal Revenue Service Director Steven Miller claimed in his testimony before the House Ways and Committee that “politics didn’t play a role” in singling out Tea Party and other groups critical of the Obama administration, could he — or anyone at the IRS for that matter — please ...
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• So, what do Obama appointees know about IRS Investigations*?

  
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  In writing about the IRS Tea Party Snooping Scandal, Ace’s CDR M asks a question about the official response which could also apply to administration’s response to the Benghazi talking points : Does anyone in position of authority know anything in this administration? Once again, conservatives should not let ...
  1 week ago

• IRS waits until after election year to tell us they targeted conservative groups in election year

  
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  Now, they tell us: IRS Apologizes For Inappropriately Targeting Conservative Political Groups In 2012 Election Tell me now, who trying to politicize the federal government? Kudos to the Huffington Post for publishing this (and to AOL for linking it on the home page). Let’s hope more of our left-leaning legacy ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proposed Tampico Reagan statue only $10K short of fundraising goal

  
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  Proposed Tampico Reagan Statue When Ronald Reagan and his family returned to Tampico, Illinois in 1919--"Dutch" was born there eight years earlier--he would play on a Civil War cannon in what is now Ronald Reagan Park. The cannon was melted down for a World War II metal drive. For several years the volunteers ...
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• Illinois GOP chairman quits

  
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  Illinois Republican chairman Pat Brady, who survived a couple of attempts to oust him, announced that he is resigning today . Bradys support for gay marriage was behind those efforts to fire him. Despite the corrupt and inept management of Illinois by the Democrats, Brady just couldnt get the job done for the GOP. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michelle Obama never mentions Chicago dead last enforcing existing gun laws

  
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  . ____ GREEN link below . -__ FLOTUS : Kids In Chicago  __ Worry About Dying ‘Every  __ Single Day’ From Violence . . .__ 2  GREEN  links below . Michelle Obama  Tears Up  While Pushing  Gun ...
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• Mary Claire Kendall on the Chicago Reagan home teardown: "Reagan Big, Hearts Small"

  
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  After the passing of Redd Griffin , Mary Claire Kendall took charge of the cause to save the only Chicago home of President Ronald Reagan. But of course the University of Chicago tore down the home anyway. Writing for Forbes, Kendall reflects on the battle to preserve the six-flat where Reagan lived in 1915. ...
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• Alderman lets it slip about Cubs owner on the Chicago Way, "He hasnt worked with the city of Chicago before"

  
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  Marathon Pundit in front of Wrigley Field Tom Rickets, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, wants to improve Wrigley Field and reap in some of the investment-- which consists of $900 million that he and his family used to buy the team four years ago. He wants to add a Jumbotron scoreboard that would sit about the left ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama bundler Pritzker, with bank failure and union troubles, nominated for Commerce

  
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  UNITE HERE protester, October, 2011 Hyatt Hotels billionaire Penny Pritzker, an Obama campaign bundler who was the national finance chair of her fellow Chicagoans 2008 campaign, was nominated to be the next Commerce Secretary this morning Part of the Pritzker empire was Superior Bank. From 1991 until 1994 Penny ...
  3 weeks ago

• Small Talk and Sandwiches

  
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  About ten minutes before State Representative Christian Mitchell’s first open house last Saturday, a tall man walks in with a large tray of sandwiches. Read more →
  3 weeks ago

• Victory over ILL-inois crony capitalism: Quinn cuts off cash to clout-heavy charter school group

  
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  A rare victory against ILL-inois crony capitalism occurred today. But is it only a temporary victory? Clout-heavy groups tend to metastasize in my state. From the Chicago Sun-Times: Gov. Pat Quinn;s administration has cut off funding to the states largest charter-school operator, the politically influential United ...
  4 weeks ago

• CNN columnist: Treat Chicago gangs as terrorists

  
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  Heres a sound idea from CNN and ESPN columnist LZ Granderson, who is African American: Treat Chicago gangs as terrorists. Technorati tags:  Illinois chicago illinois politics Democrats chicago politics politics news National Products Police Tricycle Ride-On (Google Affiliate Ad)
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