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McCain: Remember the 60s!!!
Spin CycleIn response to Obama's nomination, McCain's campaign blasts out an item from its official blogger, Michael Goldfarb, reminding everyone that 40 years ago, Bill Ayers, the Chicago professor and ex-Weatherman radical who was a state Senate constituent,...Tags: Bill Ayers, Barack Obama, Political Candidates, Elections, Republican Party
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Clinton's 'briar patch' scenario
The Swampby Jim Tankersley At the end of a rally in Oregon last month, during a question-and-answer session with the candidate, a woman asked Barack Obama about his campaign's battle with Hillary Clinton's over how to count delegates from two disputed......Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, Oregon, Political Candidates, Elections
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Shifting party fortunes is nothing new
Is the Republican Party toast? You would think so, listening to the political analysts and strategists, including those who prepared a harshly critical self-appraisal for the Republican National Committee. The contention that the GOP should be changed to...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Mondale, Tea Party Movement, Jimmy Carter
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Ed Holstein at his finest
Change of SubjectFrom this summer's concert at FitzGerald's in honor of Earl Pionke's -- the Earl of Old Town: Video description: One of the evening's major hits was Eddie Holstein, modestly self-proclaimed 1970s Folk Legend. Eddie teaches at Chicago's Old Town School....... -
Let's go to the video -- Cameras everywhere subject police, protesters to further review
Change of SubjectThere will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, Or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance … There will be no pictures of pigs...... -
PST, A to Z: ’46 N. Los Robles’ at Pacific Asia, ‘Proof’ at Norton Simon
Culture MonsterPacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is...... -
Activist Tom Hayden asks Gov. Jerry Brown to consider his dog (Video)
PolitiCalTom Hayden is trying to give Jerry Brown a guilt trip. The "Chicago Seven" activist who stormed the 1968 Democratic National Convention and later married Jane Fonda has asked the California governor to consider his own dog, Sutter, before repealing...... -
Up with the NATO protesters! How they'd make their case in a short elevator ride
Change of SubjectAndy Thayer (Tribune photo by Scott Strazzante) The back and forth between city officials and protest organizers over next month's NATO summit in Chicago has been interesting: Who gets to march where and when? How close must demonstrators get to...... -
Here comes Ann Coulter with 'Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America'
Jacket CopyAnn Coulter says that the civil rights movement gave mobs a halo. "The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic," she writes.... -
Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayor, boss and Obama mentor, calls it quits next year
Top of the TicketBig-city Democratic boss retires after 21 years, setting off a political succession scramble including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.... -
Ticket Replay: Protesters from '68 Democratic National Convention gather in Chicago to protest police reunion to celebrate those who thumped protesters 41 years ago and probably wouldn't mind doing it again if those balding hippies get too close
Top of the TicketThe more things change the more they stay the same after all these years.... -
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