Fox News: Longtime Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, a stunning decision that apparently ends a political dynasty that has dominated the city for more than a half century and paves the way for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to chase his dream job. Emanuel once told [...]
Chicago Breaking News: Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011, saying it’s “time for me, it’s time for Chicago to move on.” “The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months,” Daley said at a City Hall news conference. “In the end this is a [...]
CBS2 Chicago: If there is any place President Obama is going to get the benefit of the doubt, it’s here in his hometown. Yet public opinion polls show that even here, confidence has slipped. Though they’re a bit hesitant to talk about it. When one resident was asked how Mr. Obama was doing, the answer [...]
NY Post: An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned. The scathing critique was spelled out in a hard-hitting internal audit of NAN’s books, a copy of which was obtained [...]
The Scottish Episcopal Church has caused controversy by removing masculine references to God in a new order of service. The new form of worship, which removes words such as ‘Lord, he, his, him’ and ‘mankind’ from services, has been written by the church in an attempt to acknowledge that God is ‘beyond human gender’. Episcopalian [...]
New York Daily News: Looks like Sarah Palin won’t have to worry about passing her political torch to Levi Johnston after all. Johnston announced plans to run for office in Palin’s home turf of Wasilla last month, but a new poll reveals he’s the last person Alaskans want to elect. According to the survey, conducted [...]
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The Hill: In a break with the White House, Peter Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), recommended Tuesday that Congress extend the expiring Bush tax cuts for two years, then do away with them altogether.
The Hill: Financial regulators are set this month for a series of crucial meetings and decisions as they hash out major new U.S. and international rules that may govern the financial world for years to come. And as they convene in Washington and Basel, Switzerland, regulators from around the world are coming under heavy lobbying [...]
Politico: A year and a half after the governor of Texas energized his reelection campaign by casting himself as an antagonist to President Barack Obama, Republican gubernatorial candidates across the country are following his example. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has cut a television commercial placing her Democratic challenger’s face on an Obama-style campaign poster, [...]
Time: Two months before Election Day, finding a pessimistic Republican strategist is about as tough as spotting a five-legged unicorn on your local interstate.
Washington Post: Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack of economic progress, deeply dissatisfied with the federal government and critical of President Obama’s leadership. For the first time [...]
