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Alexi Giannoulias forms exploratory committee in run for President Obama’s former Senate seat

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois State Treasurer, has announced that he is forming an exploratory committee to run for United States Senate. Giannoulias, who was elected Illinois State Treasurer in 2006, with the strong endorsement and support of then-United States Senator Barack Obama, will be a strong candidate and is a progressive.
He will immediately start raising funds, [...]

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Senator Burris under heat from fellow Democrats

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

The chorus is growing louder against Senator Roland Burris. It is understandable when Republicans call for Burris to resign his United States Senate seat. And while only a handful of Democrats are calling for his resignation, many prominent Democrats are calling for Burris to come clean, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa [...]

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Senator Roland Burris must resign his seat

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Senator Roland Burris
United States Senator Roland Burris has had a wonderful political career. He has in many ways been a trailblazer for African-Americans seeking higher office. In 1978 he was elected as Illinois State Comptroller, being the first African American elected to statewide office. In 1990, he was elected to another statewide office as Illinois [...]

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Blagojevich puts the bite on Roland Burris prior to naming him to the Senate

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

The Chicago Sun-Times, in an exclusive report, said that former Governor Rod Blagojevich, through his brother Robert, tried to hold up Senator Burris for $10,000. This is not a surprising development in itself, but the problem could be a potentially large one for Burris because he initially failed to report this to the Illinois House [...]

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In defense of Caroline Kennedy, the next United States Senator from the state of New York

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

I am more than a little irritated with this Caroline Kennedy controversy. What is the issue? Qualifications some say. Nonsense. Caroline Kennedy attended and graduated from Radcliffe College. She also went on to receive a law degree from Columbia Law School. And that would be enough to qualify a person for the United States Senate.
But [...]

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Gas prices might hit a dollar a gallon soon

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Gasoline prices may hit the $1.00 mark soon.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Oil prices hit four-year lows Friday as employers cut the highest number of jobs in 34 years. The continuing decline in prices is so dramatic and so sudden that it is raising the prospect that gas prices could soon fall below $1 a gallon.
The [...]

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Sarah Palin snubs Oprah and it appears Palin is smarter than we all think

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Sarah Palin nevers ceases to amaze me. When she first sprung on the national scene I just thought “What a joke.”
It’s no joke, my friends.
Lately, she snubbed Oprah in an obviously calculated political motivation and I can’t tell you what that is but the important thing is she thinks she knows. Sarah Palin is for [...]

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When investing in the “Stock Market,” expect the unexpected

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Maybe I am an eternal optimist but I believe the stock market is getting ready to move. It is not just the optimist in me that believes this. As an investor (I am not a trader and there is a crucial difference) I see the upside as unlimited. Well at least new highs, then higher [...]

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Hillary Clinton could have been the Chairman of Approriations . . . but

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Hillary Clinton could have been the Senate Chairman of Approriations Committee, but instead chose to become the next Secretary of State.

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton passed on becoming boss of the superpowerful Senate Appropriations Committee to pursue the more prestigious secretary of state job with President-elect Barack Obama,the Daily News has learned.
As chairwoman of the panel [...]

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Another preemptive strike, this time from the “good guys”

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

A high-ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), has introduced a resolution that preempts President Bush from pardoning any members of his administration who were involved in certain acts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, introduced [...]

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Gas prices fall below $2.00 a gallon: Great news or is it? Deflation?

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

After seeing gas prices nearing the $5.00 a gallon not long ago, to watch this precipitous drop in prices to under $2.00 a gallon one might assume that is great news. But is it great news.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It took gas prices more than three years to rise from $2 to a record high [...]

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Howard Dean can truly stand up and say, “Mission Accomplished”

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

I was sad to learn that Howard Dean will not seek a second term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This was a great victory for Howard Dean whose ideas and implementation of those ideas that set the stage for the 2008 Presidential campaign. President-elect Barack Obama simply took it to a higher level, [...]

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President Barack Obama, do I like the sound of that

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Barack Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States and that has changed the world. Of course you could argue whether the change is good or bad, but nevertheless the world has changed. And I would argue for the better.
There is already evidence of the beginnings of an “Obama Bull Market Rally” [...]

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Sarah Palin funds kiddy travel, well the state of Alaska does

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

An AP investigation showed that Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has been “feeding at the public trough.”
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs [...]

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Colin Powell will endorse Obama making him unstoppable

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

One of my more popular posts was “Barack Obama and Colin Powell would be an unstoppable team. In it I argued that Barack Obama should select Colin Powell as his Vice-Presidential running mate, thus making Obama/Powell an unstoppable, landslide winner. I still believe that would have been a great ticket. But so would have Obama/Clinton [...]

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The Chicago Tribune contains two surprising items today

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

The Chicago Tribune’s Saturday edition contains two items: first that the state of Indiana is in play for Democrats for the first time since 1964. And. Brace yourself, the Chicago Tribune, the conservative Republican newspaper, is endorsing Democratic candidate for President, Barack Obama.
Neither item is shocking or unexpected. But still surprising. Both events have been [...]

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Barack Obama on the right track to victory

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

After three debate performances Barack Obama has convinced the nation he is “presidential material” and now has the edge to become the next President of the United States. All the polls are pointing into Obama’s direction as he now has the edge and leads in every state that John Kerry won, according to The Rasmussen [...]

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ACORN is a threat to every living and breathing Republican

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

ACORN is in the news again.
The negative reaction to ACORN is comical. ACORN is a threatening group of people going around “empowering local low- and moderate-income people by bringing them into the democratic process.” Talk about danger to the national security and safety of this nation. What is more dangerous than electing more Democrats and [...]

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Sarah Palin, there I said it again

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

My boycott of mentioning the name Sarah Palin is finally over. I even used “Sarah Palin” as a tag and not “John McCain’s running mate.” Lance was correct when he pointed this out. This campaign, my friends, is not about Sarah Palin. We really don’t want her knocked off the ticket. She is an asset [...]

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Palin still doesn’t cut it, says columnist Kathleen Parker

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Reading on Walden Bookstore

Syndicated conservative columnist Kathleen Parker still isn’t convinced that Sarah Palin is Vice-Presidential material although Parker gave Palin high marks for style.
I’ll have to go to the transcript to figure out what Palin actually said and try to figure out whose facts were right. But there’s no question: She won the debate on popularity. She [...]

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