Blogging from PHOENIX— Is the promise of change we can believe in being tainted by a closet racist? Illinois senator designate Roland Burris as promised was prohibited from taking his seat by majority leader Harry Reid today. But the back story may be in statements the Beleaguered Illinois Governor claims the majority leader made before […]

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Blogging From PHOENIX — The day after Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed former Illinois attorney General Roland Burris to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, the United States attorney investigating Mr. Blagojevich on corruption charges requested a 90-day extension to bring an indictment against him.
At Tuesday’s press conference Gov. Blagojevich referred to Mr. Burris, as the […]

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Obama’s Chicago Home:
Fannie Mae Mortgage Loan Amount Listed at $1,320,000

Relativity by E. M. Escher
While researching an article about Obama’s Chicago home about the circumstances surrounding who is the “owner”, I happened across a bit of information: Obama’s home has a Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac mortgage to the tune of $1,320,000. (Page 5 of Cook County Property […]

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Why is William Micelli Listed on the Cook Co. Tax Records
As the Owner of Barack Obama’s Home?
5046 South Greenwood, Chicago Illinois

The blog, Strata-Sphere, has turned up some interesting information relating to Obama’s Chicago home.
Listed in the Cook County Records Property Tax Assessments as “owner” of Obama’s home isn’t the President-elect, nor his wife, but attorney […]

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Some establishment republican’s and blue dog democrats, fresh from a successful plot on behalf of their foreign masters to derail congressional efforts at saving the U.S. auto industry, Pivoted quickly to focus attention on crafting a grand illusion they hope to sell in time for the holidays, Seems President Obama is secretly behind the scandal engulfing […]

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Yes, I’m not a psychologist, but as a Family Practitioner in rural areas, I’ve diagnosed and treated my share of mental illnesses in my patients. So I am appalled at the press swallowing the spin that Governor Blagojevich’s desire for money/bribes is a “mental illness”.
CBS2Chicago:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich knew for months he was under investigation, so […]

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Here in the Philippines, we figure that all politicians are on the take.
Politicians visiting the Presidential palace get gift boxes containing thousands of dollars in pesos; fertilizer funds are funneled to politicians to distribute right before an election (and many, but not all, of the politicians made money off the deal, by buying the fertilizer […]

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David Schussler
So I’m sitting on the toilet, it’s six thirty AM, and I’m thinking about how good it is to be relieving myself of bodily toxins early in the morning. I’m going to have a good day. I’m remembering the lessons I learned while living alone in the bush and having time to understand my […]

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The New York Times allowed G-d knows how many innocent trees to die so that it could publish a self-serving, deeply disingenuous op-ed by terrorist-cum-educator William Ayers – who actually expects us to feel sorry for his being pilloried during the presidential campaign:
I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist” role; I felt at times […]

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Last week, state Comptroller Dan Hynes reported that the backlog of state bills has reached over $4 billion. Several vendors have threatened to stop providing services to the state if they cannot be paid on timely basis. Many Medicaid patients are finding fewer and fewer providers are willing to give them health care. Illinois is […]

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In a little suburb of Chicago called Evanston Illinois there was a discovery that shocked everyone around. Police found a 90 year old woman inside her home where she was living with the bodies of three of her dead siblings.
Two of the bodies were described as skeletons and the third was said to be badly […]

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Isn’t this rich? At a rally in Sarasota, FL, yesterday Barack Obama said:  
The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich. I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American […]

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It is sad when one can’t consider your own home as a safe place to be. Jennifer Hudson’s, from American Idol, mother and brother was found by a relative in Hudson’s mother’s home on the South Side of Chicago where they had been apparently gunned down during a domesticate dispute according to law enforcement officials.
Hudson’s […]

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If you steal a million bucks, and don’t tell anyone, is it a crime?
Well, maybe, say the Catholic bishops, especially if it might be some of our antipoverty money.
It seems that the Catholic Bishop’s “poverty” charity, the “Catholic Campaign for Human Development”, has been giving a million bucks or so each year to ACORN.
No big […]

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A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables […]

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by web bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996. Reports earlier this summer that Obama was associated with the New Party were vigorously denied by the Obama campaign and the […]

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That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater.
To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville […]

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After meeting nearly around the clock for two days, a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement with the Bush administration early Sunday morning on a compromise financial bailout bill that is less sweeping than the original proposal crafted by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, and includes more oversight, accountability and taxpayer protections. […]

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The right wing blogs had their tails in a knot over the weekend about a Missouri prosecutor claiming that “lies” against the candidate would be “prosecuted”.
Even Missouri governor Blout got into the act:
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas […]

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Sen. Barack Obama talks a good game when it comes to such issues as anti-discrimination, the value of military service and the importance of ensuring children get a high-quality education in public schools, but the choices he has made in his own life suggest that he doesn’t believe the stuff in his own stump speeches […]

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Willie has a folding table set up on the corner of 7th Ave. and 28th St. - at the crossroads where the Garment District, the Flower District and Chelsea commingle – from which he sells political buttons. Monday through Friday from about 10 am to 7 pm, you’ll find Willie, a tall, thin, middle-aged black […]

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Talk about putting lipstick on a pig, Sen. Barack Obama is begging former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton and other high-profile female surrogates, such as AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano and KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to hit the campaign trail in an effort to temper the fury of women voters who feel scorned when Clinton did not […]

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The Repubs were in fine fettle Wednesday night, showing off their sense of humor in back-to-back speeches packed with biting barbs, alliterative jibes and irony-laden vocal inflections by erstwhile presidential candidate and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (video) and vice presidential nominee AK Gov. Sarah Palin (video). Both speakers – especially Giuliani, who mugged his […]

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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson notes that Spike Lee has taken to “grandiloquently divid[ing] American history into two epochs, “B.B.” and “A.B.” - Before Barack and After Barack.” With John McCain’s selection of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Obama went from making history to being history in the span of 12 hours.
The […]

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On Tuesday, the 88th anniversary of women being granted the right to vote, Hillary Clinton was the living embodiment of the dream of electing a woman to the White House deferred as she pledged to support rival Barack Obama’s bid for the White House. On Thursday, the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I […]

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Just how did Barack Obama (D-IL), a rather undistinguished IL state senator, get elected to the U.S. Senate, and without doing anything noteworthy in that august body, go on to capture his party’s nomination for president before even finishing out his first term in Congress? A combination of heartlessness and happenstance - and some say, […]

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To the anguished cries of, “No!,” Hillary Clinton (D-NY) released her delegates before Wednesday afternoon’s roll call vote – deliberately timed to be well out of the prime-time spotlight.  When it was NY’s turn to announce its delegate tallies – by alphabetical order 32 other states and territories had already done so – Clinton herself […]

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When Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) took the stage to deliver her remarks before the DNC, the enthusiasm of the crowd and the applause she got rivaled that of the iconic Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who perhaps delivered his last address to convention delegates on Monday.
Hillary gave one of the finest speeches of her political career. […]

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With Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) running mate, you have a two-senator ticket - all talk, no executive action; no “favorite son” advantage in a key swing state with a huge chunk of votes in the electoral college; and a man whom voters resoundingly rejected when he was running for the […]

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 … But he’s going to make the media and punditocracy wait until he declares his choice via  text message on Saturday, after which he plans a joint appearance with his running mate at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL, where he announced he would run for president. [Update: It’s Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), according […]

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