Guess they've got that pesky old murder-gang-drug thing solved in Chicago so that Mayor Rahm Emanuel can now concetrate on the really important stuff:
Time for Chicago's vending machines to chip up or chip out.
This ought to give Republicans pause:
President Barack Obama won a second term by taking the majority of swing states. But a closer look at exit polling data shows Obama lost the independent vote in most of those states over the last four years. Independents, who do not align with one political party or another, make up a fast-growing and coveted voting bloc.
Hey, how about this for a novelty -- a general in the middle of a scandal that doesn't involve sex:
Gen. William “Kip” Ward, the one-time head of the U.S. Africa Command, was demoted Tuesday and ordered to repay $82,000 he blew on extravagant trips and other unauthorized expenses.
This seems a little drastic. I mean, we do recall what happened the last time don't we?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on an amendment to the Constitution he would approve of, and this might surprise a few people:
The David Petraeus scandal is becoming a three-ring circus, and it's beginning to look lik Jill Kelley is the real start attraction. There is this:
Oh, dear God, say it isn't so:
President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.
This strikes me as a pretty simplistic -- that is to say, almost simple-minded -- analysis:
INDIANAPOLIS — What do President Barack Obama, Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett and State Treasurer Richard Mourdock have in common, aside from losing Indiana voters this year after winning them over on previous ballots?
They all represented break-neck change, and Indiana voters said "No, thank you."
Happy Veterans Day, even though 11/11 was, well, you know, yesterday, and this three-day-weekend crap that ignores the real holiday observances is getting way out of hand.
Here's President Obama, speaking at Arlington National Cemetery yesterday, the right day, thank you very much:
Maybe he can teach the course on "Looking the other way when the politicians you like screw up" or the one on "Sneering at those you disagree with while pretending to be objective":
President Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that his next project will include inspiring young people to become "journalists."
