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Carl Cannon Named Washington Editor of RealClearPolitics
CHICAGO , Feb. 25, 2011 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — RealClearPolitics (RCP) announced today that award-winning journalist Carl M.
To Defenders, Some Earmarks Are Sound Politics
Enlarge Wilfredo Lee / AP A planned dredging project at the Port of Miami would cost $75 million in federal money. However, incoming Florida Gov.
Putting Illinois to Work may need more work
Community leaders from Chicago’s West Side are calling on Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to step up public policy to create permanent jobs for those employed by the Put Illinois to Work Program. The program was initially funded by federal stimulus money when it began nine months ago, but the money ran out at the end of September. Yesterday Governor Quinn announced he was using $47 million from the sale of a bond from the state’s tobacco settlement to subsidize the 26,000 jobs created by the program.
Bill O’Reilly Calls FOX ‘Most Powerful Media Agency in the World’
It’s official: Bill O’Reilly has deemed FOX News the most powerful media agency in the world. On Monday night’s ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ O’Reilly said, “Here at FOX we have emerged, and correct me if you think I’m wrong, but I think FOX News is the most powerful media agency in the world — not just the country, but in the world.” Bill O’Reilly is easily the most watched and probably the most influential personality on FOX News; reading between the lines, one could infer O’Reilly’s statement to mean he believes himself to be the most powerful media figure in the world.
Congress to discuss Bush tax cuts
Members of Congress are expected to start laying the groundwork in the next several days for a deal with the White House on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts. President Obama has been opposed to extending the cuts for the nation’s highest earners but has said he wants to compromise with Republicans to make sure that tax cuts for middle-income families.
Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts (AP)
WASHINGTON – Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients’ health: She’ll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors’ pay to go through. The scheduled cuts — the result of a failed system set up years ago to control costs — have raised alarms that real damage to Medicare could result if the lame-duck Congress winds up in a partisan standoff and fails to act by Dec.
"Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell": Don’t even think it’ll pass in lame duck session
As I write this, Congress is gearing to come back to work for its lame duck session – a last chance Texaco before the new, more conservative class takes over as midterm victors. And Harry Reid, Democratic majority leader on his last hurrah, has already indicated that his top priority bills are a stopgap economic measure and the Bush tax cuts, which everyone suddenly seems to agree on in principle but which no doubt will consume the entire two weeks before Thanksgiving in hashing out just exactly how much they disagree in fact.
Obama says his mission is to accelerate recovery
BELTSVILLE, Md. – President Barack Obama says his mission is to accelerate the economy’s recovery.
Baruch Shemtov: A Conversation With Joel Pollak, Candidate for Congress (VIDEO)
In this conversation, Joel Pollak, the Republican challenging Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, discusses his candidacy for Congress, his commitment to the Tea Party, and his hopes for the future. Follow Baruch Shemtov on Twitter: www.twitter.com/BaruchShemtov
Audiobook of `Catcher’ made for library service (AP)
WASHINGTON – Push the play button and hear the famous teenager’s lament. It is recited in a sly, middle-aged twang, like an adult reading in a grade school classroom, one about to be told that the grown-up world is a nest of phonies.
