Articles filed under Politics
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Suburbs seeing lots of tree clones as lovely as a treeJan 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The political nuttiness of this election season may leave you pining for a clone of Abe Lincoln. Would you settle for a cloned Lincoln tree? While New York City makes n...
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Obama's appeal is in the defying of racial stereotypesJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - In a thoughtful Atlantic Monthly essay touting Barack Obama last month, political commentator Andrew Sullivan revealed his disappointment with a speech the Illinois sena...
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Devine endorses his top assistant to replace him as Cook Co. state's atty.Jan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine endorsed his first assistant in the race to replace him. Bob Milan received the endorsement from Devine Sunday. "This endorsemen...
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Democrats trade jabs over raceJan 13, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama's campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distor...
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Obama alienated women with his curt remark to ClintonJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Rick Lazio must have known what was coming. As Hillary Clinton's Senate opponent in 2000, he alarmingly strode across the stage during a debate and demanded that she sig...
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Michigan is latest battle ground for GOPJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - YPSILANTI, Mich. -- Mitt Romney and John McCain argued about their concern for the auto industry, while Mike Huckabee spotlighted his opposition to abortion, as the Repu...
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Economy trades Iraq as top issueJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The faltering economy has caught the Iraq war as people's top worry, a national poll suggests, with the rapid turnabout already showing up on the president...
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Voters looking in different directions in presidential raceJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Like the Roman god Janus, from which this godforsaken month takes its name, the two parties' voters in two states have looked in different directions. These states perha...
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House hopefuls tout their abilitiesJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Republican candidates for the 66th House District squared off Saturday at a forum by emphasizing their different kinds of experience. Christine K. Prochno, a third-term ...
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Lauzen talks about plans for IraqJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Republican congressional hopeful Chris Lauzen flirts with -- but stops short of -- criticizing the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war. That marks a key diffe...