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Warren Buffet: Not raising debt ceiling is 'playing with fire' - Chicago Sun-Times

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:01:54 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - Jul. 07 - USA TodayWarren Buffet: Not raising debt ceiling is 'playing with fire'Chicago Sun-TimesBillionaire investor Warren Buffett said Thursday Congress is playing a dangerous game by considering not raising the US debt ceiling. The CEO and chairman of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said on the cable TV network CNBC that there is no ...Buffett urges Congress to hike debt ceilingUSA TodayBuffett: GOP Threatening To 'Blow Your Brains Out' Over Debt CeilingHuffington PostWarren Buffett Wants Congress to Raise Debt CeilingZimbiotickerspy Newswire -Newserall 395 news articles »

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Dems not taking debt seriously

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Jacob Sullum - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - In the context of federal spending that will total something like $3.8 trillion this year, $61 billion is a rounding error. Yet the Democrats resisting that amount in House-approved cuts say it will wreck the economy while leaving children unschooled, taking food from the mouths of the elderly, and casting disabled people into the streets.

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Focused on immigration reform, Gutierrez not running for mayor - Chicago Sun-Times

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - Oct. 15 (News) - Chicago TribuneFocused on immigration reform, Gutierrez not running for mayorChicago Sun-TimesLuis Gutierrez took himself out of the running for mayor Thursday, saying his mission must be passing comprehensive immigration reform. ...Gutierrez won't run for Chicago mayorChicago TribuneLuis Gutierrez Won't Run for Mayor in ChicagoMy Latino VoiceGutierrez won't run for mayorWLSWashington Post -The Hill (blog) -Chicago News Cooperativeall 52 news articles »

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Tea Party, protesters clash at Glen Beck event

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - Sep. 18 - Even before Glen Beck took the stage at the Right Nation 2010 gathering in Hoffman Estates Saturday, a sideshow started outside. While 5,400 conservatives headed inside the Sears Center, about 200 protesters joined in song and prayer outside, accusing

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Gutierrez meeting with Obama to discuss immigration reform strategy

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Lynn Sweet - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Congress is dealing with immigration issues in the coming days...Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is one of three Hispanic congressional leaders meeting with President Obama on Thursday to try to "re-energize" the push for immigration reform.

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Harris: Obama knew of Blagojevich plot

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Natasha Korecki, Sarah Ostman - Jun. 24 (News) - A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich's plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. John Harris, Blagojevich's former chief of staff, testified Wednesday in the former governor's corruption trial that three days after the Nov. 4, 2008, presidential election, the ex-governor told Harris he felt confident Obama knew he wanted to swap perks.

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Wall Street's dirty, rotten scoundrels - Roger Ebert's Journal

Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Roger Ebert - May. 23 (News) - I am but a naive outsider. I don't fully understand the working of the "derivatives" and "credit swaps" that we have heard so much about in recent months. I'm not alone. But I'm learning. I gather that these are ingenious computer-driven trading schemes in which good money can be earned from bad debt, and Wall Street's Masters of the Universe pocket untold millions at the same time they bankrupt their investors and their own companies.

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Cannes #1: On a darkling plain

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Roger Ebert - May. 12 (Comment) - the studios have won a big victory...there is nothing to compel them to pre-screen them for the critics. if they don't the result will be a mainstream cinema based entirely on advertising and marketing.

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Deadline looms for Giannoulias family bank

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Abdon M. Passasch - Apr. 23 (News Report) - Time's up. If a bidder has not been found for the Giannoulias family's Broadway Bank, today could be the day federal and state regulators walk in and shut it down.

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Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Steve Huntly - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - Have you heard the news? President Obama inherited an economic mess from the Bush administration. You say that's hardly news? But it's been the message sounded over and over by the White House. Top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on one of the Sunday news shows, "He walked in the door, we had the worst economy since the Great Depression." In San Francisco, Obama talked of being "busy with our mop." White House heavy hitter Rahm Emanuel used the worst-economy-since-the-Depression line on a public TV news show.

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Sands Hid Fate of Gulf War Pilot Missing Since 1991

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By All Authors - Aug. 02 (News) - Mystery Surrounding Speicher’s Whereabouts Had Sparked Rumors, Conspiracy Theories

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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Raymond Taylor - Apr. 06 (Press Release) - title of my book is Morbid Regions

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No Southern comfort for Obama backers

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Mary MItchell - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - ...Are the voices of the people in the South who put their faith in Obama's ability to rescue the economy to be ignored? When Jim Clyburn, the House majority whip, accused the Republican governors who are snubbing the stimulus funds of insulting African Americans, his remarks were widely misinterpreted. Clyburn didn't call anybody racist. What he did was point out that while Obama lost the white Southern vote, 95 percent of African Americans nationwide voted for him. And the black vote was key in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. With respect to Louisiana, Clyburn pointed out that Jindal has asked for millions for hurricane-ravaged communities...

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Michelle Obama's first outside White House function: Visits Arne Duncan at the Education Department

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Lynn Sweet - Feb. 03 (Speech) - First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to a crowd of about 350 people at the Department of Education--part of her "get to know D.C" tour--praising them for their decades of service. Aides say she will visit other federal cabinet level agencies in the coming weeks. She was joined on stage by Education Secretary, Arne Duncan--she called him committed, hard working, passionate and fair. Duncan said that the Obama effect was going to be huge and that kids would say "I want to be smart like the President, I want to be smart like the first lady."

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Blagojevich to name Roland Burris to Obama's Senate seat

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Dave McKinney - Dec. 30 (News Report) - Ignoring threats from the U.S. Senate Democratic leadership to block his pick, Gov. Blagojevich this afternoon said he's appointing Roland Burris to President-elect Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat. "The people of Illinois are entitled to have two U.S. Senators," said Blagojevich, whose arrest on corruption charges earlier this month places Burris' appointment under a cloud. "If I don't make this appointment then the people of Illinois will be deprived."

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Hiring Emanuel shows Obama's hand

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Carol Marin - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - If you hire a shark, does that make you a shark? If you send in an enforcer, are you, de facto, an enforcer, too? President-elect Barack Obama, practitioner of consensus and preacher of civility, made a singular statement by choosing Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, the first hire of the new administration. "Brilliant, hardworking, in some ways he may be a good yin to Obama's yang. But I was very surprised because he has a very different personality type from those around Obama," longtime Chicago political consultant Kitty Kurth said by phone Thursday. "I had first met Rahm after the '88 presidential campaign, on Mayor Daley's '89 mayoral race. He was always brilliant but a complete hardball player. The first six or seven times I met him, he never remembered who I was. . . . I never had anything he needed, so he didn't need to know who I was."

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McCain attack on Obama and "corrupt Chicago machine" triggers Mayor Daley "Keating 5" response

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Lynn Sweet, Fran Spielman - Sep. 23 (News Report) - You want to play rough? Let's get it on. A new ad from Sen. John McCain's campaign accuses Sen. Barack Obama of being a product of the Chicago political machine. Convicted former Obama supporter Tony Rezko is among those referenced in the ad. That was Mayor Daley's angry message to Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Tuesday about the McCain ad that smears Daley's brother in an attempt to tie Barack Obama to the "corrupt Chicago political machine." In essence, Daley warned McCain that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. He was talking about McCain's role in the so-called "Keating Five" savings and loan scandal.

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Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Roger Ebert - Sep. 12 (Opinion) - I think I might be able to explain some of Sarah Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could be me up there on that show! My problem is, I don't want to be up there. I don't want a vice president who is darned near good enough. I want a vice president who is better, wiser, well-traveled, has met world leaders, who three months ago had an opinion on Iraq. Someone who doesn't repeat bald- faced lies about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere. Someone who doesn't appoint Alaskan politicians to "study" global warming, because, hello! It has been studied. The returns are convincing enough that John McCain and Barack Obama are darned near in agreement.

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U. of C. shunning poor patients?

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Tim Novak, Chris Fusco - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities. Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. Hospital officials say such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of specialized care, such as cancer treatment and organ transplants.

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Happiness rises with age

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Andrew Herrmann - Apr. 19 (News Report) - There's a reason, apparently, Americans sing "Happy Birthday." New University of Chicago research says, in general, people grow happier as they grow older. "With age comes happiness,'' writes U. of C. assistant professor of sociology Yang Yang in the April issue of American Sociological Review. Among the possible reasons: increasing job satisfaction and more settled personal lives. While health problems may increase, they are offset somewhat by fewer youth-related stresses such as broken hearts, entry-level paychecks and angst, researchers say.

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Problems back home? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Lynn Sweet

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Sun Times - By Lynn Sweet - Mar. 02 (News Report) - SAN ANTONIO -- With increasing frequency, Republicans are taking aim at Sen. Barack Obama as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces an uphill fight to keep her presidential hopes alive. And several people from Chicago connected to Obama -- with the major figure being the indicted Tony Rezko -- could provide material his foes can use. If Obama wins the nomination, he will face an onslaught from presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as well as the Republican National Committee, with a research and press operation churning out e-mails about Obama's record. Here's a look at some of the Chicago people who are already in play: Rezko's trial on corruption charges starts Monday. Rezko has a longtime relationship with Obama. Any mention of Obama in the trial -- he is a side figure -- could have political ramifications for Obama and be grist for ads. While Obama's connections to Rezko have long been the subject of stories in the Chicago newspapers, the trial is the peg for other news organizations to be doing their own examinations.

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Novak's 'Prince' dishes on dustups and dirt in D.C.

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:37:50 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Scott Jacobs - Jul. 08 (Review) - In Novak's account, it was all in a day's work: A long-scheduled interview with State Department official Richard Armitage yields up a tasty tidbit he lodges in his memory. A call to his old friend Karl Rove confirms it. And a third-source public relations specialist at the CIA does not deny it (or ask him to withhold the information). It's noteworthy that when he did publish the item, Novak buried it in the sixth paragraph. This has always been my problem reading his column, and carries over into reading his book. There is so much inside the beltway jockeying that goes on in Novak's choice of column items, it is often hard to see their relevance.

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Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:28:55 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By James M. Taylor - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.

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Immigration bill is a fraud

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:41:36 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Mark Steyn - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - I forget where I was when I first heard the phrase ''undocumented worker.'' Possibly it was after swimming the Rio Grande and emerging dripping on the northern shore to be handed a fake Social Security number and a driver's license. But I assumed, reasonably enough, that this linguistic sleight of hand was simply too ridiculous to fly even with the American media. I underestimated my colleagues, alas.

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So much news, so little sense

Sun, 27 May 2007 05:55:02 -0700

Chicago Sun Times - By Mark Steyn - May. 27 (News Analysis) - Even the looniest jihad-inciting imam understands that human nature responds to incentive, to the tradeoff between obligation and reward. But the immigration bill is all reward and no obligations. The only clause that matters is the first one: the mandatory open-ended probationary legal status the bill will confer the moment it's passed. All the rest is Beltway kabuki.

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