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Valerie Jarrett Who Am I? Chicago Medical Center As Well." (Jay Newton-Small, "Campaign Insider," Time, 4/7/08) "Chicago Is In The Running For The 2016 Olympics … One Of Obama's Top Advisers, Valerie Jarrett, Is The Vice Chair Of Chicago's Bid Committee." (Lynn Sweet, "McCain, Obama, Clinton All Push Bush On China Games," Chicago Sun-Times, 4/10/08) Under A Plan Devised By The City Of Chicago And Habitat Co., "The City Has Lost More Than 13,000 Housing Units For The Poor." (Jason Grotto and Laurie Cohen, "Obama Adviser Shapes City Housing Policy," Chicago Tribune, 7/5/08) "Habitat Has Earned $6.8 Million In Fees...

The group hoping to persuade the U.S. Olympic Committee board to choose Chicago over Los Angeles to represent the nation in international competition will also include Valerie Jarrett, a real estate executive and former CTA chairwoman.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Contrary to comments made by Gov. Blagojevich--according to federal wiretaps--about President elect Barack Obama wanting confidant Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the Senate, David Axelrod said Thursday that Obama's "preference was always she serve in the White House." Jarrett was tapped to be a senior advisor. Axelrod spoke at a forum at Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

If there is a special election that comes about from the corruption scandal with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a visit by Governor Palin maybe in order. Like any political storm, elements of corruption have to be in the mix of elements. In New Orleans, we saw the fall of Rep. Jefferson and an Asian Republican get elected. In this case, the competition would not be against an incumbent who was indicted, but instead, it would be for an empty seat held by president elect Barack Obama. How the corruption element is mixed in is; Barack is deeply rooted politically with...

The terrorists who attacked Mumbai had come from the sea. This serves as a reminder to us that the LTTE has in years past tried to penetrate our harbours and Colombo has always been a target. (...) Whenever there was military action against the LTTE by the Sri Lankan forces, LTTE had two cards to play. First relates to violation of human rights by the armed forces, which resonates well with the West. That also helps LTTE immensely as foreign governments tend to make their bilateral assistance to Sri Lanka conditional to good governance by GSOL. The second was the...

RAMESWARAM: Three more abandoned boats were found drifting in the coast on Friday raising suspicion among officials that the LTTE militants, involved in a fierce battle with Sri Lankan army in the island's north, were sneaking into Tamil Nadu. The boats found abandoned were located at Arichalmunai, Erandam and Moondram theedai. Earlier six boats, some with bullet marks and blood stains, were found abandoned off Rameswaram and Nagapattinam coasts on Thursday. So many "mysterious" abandoned boats had been found. There was no chance for so many boats to drift to the Indian shores. The only possibility was that someone should...

Link "Pakistan told Indian officials to look into all aspects, including an LTTE or Al-Qaeda connection. Pakistan also informed India that some of the terrorists appeared to be South Indians and looked like LTTE cadres. India investigated every angle," the official said. London's Pakistani High Commissioner in an interview told BBC over the weekend that some of the terrorists looked very much like South Indians. From Sir Lanka Ministry of Defence ....... A little known terror outfit "Deccan Mujahideen" has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Anti-terrorist operations are continuing as Indian security forces take on the formidable mission to...

Link The government will construct a multi million shillings museum at the Nyang'oma Kogelo home of the United States of America president elect, Barrack Obama's grand parents, tourism minister, Najib Balala has said.

A cool wind and dry weather greeted the big Our Country Deserves Better bus as it pulled up to the State Capitol but The Stop Obama Tour received a warm welcome from McCain/Palin supporters gathered there for the Stop Obama Rally.

As of October 25, 2008 the figures on early voting in Bernalillo County, New Mexico are: Out of the registered 187518 Democrats, 33752 Democrats voted early. Out of the registered 127527 Republicans, 15552 Republicans voted early. Earlier, I had written about ACORN's efforts and how it could affect the polling data.Since the posting of the article on ACORN, the FBI has begun an investigation in Bernalillo County on voter registration fraud. A few weeks later, the news media had stated that a record number of request for absentee ballot voting had been made. As of October 25, 2008, 42043 absentee...

Well it's a done deal. Barack is not a socialist because he thinks Warren Buffet would be a good policy wonk on his cabinet. And some have said, even McCain thinks Warren Buffet would be a good policy wonk. Senator McCain, two things, open ANWR and in the words of P Diddy; "Come on man", McCain, Warren Buffett as Secretary of the Treasury? Hell no. Warren Buffett, is the guy who invested millions in PetroChina ( Darfur, Darfur, Darfur) when currency traders were hedging against the dollar in 2002, which led to the dollars' devalue and the rise in oil...

Standing in front of five former Hillary Clinton supporters who are now throwing their support behind the McCain campaign, Sarah Palin told the crowd of thousands of screaming supporters in Henderson, Nevada that it was “presumptuous” for the Obama campaign to think they “have the women’s vote all locked up.”

Some sweet news for Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign, so far he's winning the national jelly bean vote. "Fork Over Your Vote" is a national project where people can choose who they think should be the next president by tossing a jelly bean into a jar.

Why is it that Blacks such as Ron Walters refer to the church the Rev. Wright preached the gospel in, as a "Black Church." Barack Obama, however, is another case. The massive vilification of Trinity and Rev. Wright and the gross misunderstanding of the Black church have me wondering why “the Black church” does not throw the considerable arms of love support and power behind them. It is patently clear, for example, that no other church with the stature of Trinity would be so maligned without a considerable pushback from the community they represent. The media simply does not understand...

To get the feel of a political race, anecdotal stories on the ground of voters' enthusiasm is a better gauge than looking to polls. To make this point I reference one story covering the Biden event where pollster Terry Madonna predicts that Obama will take Scranton. Her polling firm has Obama leading by 7 points in Pennsylvania. Now compare the following anecdotal stories from Scranton Pa.: Biden, and both Clintons had a campaign rally in Scranton Pa. Working families, Biden told a crowd of about 6,000 at an indoor soccer complex here, were asking themselves "questions that are as simple...

I am working on a story on the interaction of Governor Palin and Senator McCain in a federal lawsuit in Alaska. The story will focus on Governor Palin's action in regard to an Anchorage Police Officer and Senator McCain's efforts in getting the release of forms that were being held by the Army. According to the individual that is involved with events in this case, Governor Palin's actions will show that she is willing to fight corruption outside of Troopergate and Senator McCain is willing to make sure that justice is ensured. Stay tuned.

Today's news is Sarah Palin according to Investigator Branchflower; she had abused her power. Of course the press as usual will go with the headline that she abused her power. But there is more to that in Branchflower's findings. He states in his first findings that Palin had violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Branchflower quoting: "The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds offices as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust." Now in the purest form of interpretation, the law means Palin...

Obama characterizes the U.S. record around the world as “mixed,” and briefly mentions the slaughter of 500,000 Indonesian communists at the behest of the CIA in the 1960s (Obama lived in Indonesia in his youth). However, he ascribes such crimes (which he treats as isolated “mistakes”) not to the deepest dynamics of global imperialism, but to short-sighted, “misguided” policies, “based on false assumptions that ignore the legitimate aspirations of other peoples.” (p. 280)

Critical Pedagogy and Bolivarian Revolution. Luis Bonilla-Molina and Bill Ayers. Translation: Chesa Boudin ...

In response to Gov. Sarah Palin's invocation of Barack Obama's "terrorist" "pal" William Ayers, Democrats have settled on a rhetorical response that inquires, innocently enough, whether Todd Palin's association with anti-American secessionists is fair game, especially in light of Palin's charge that Obama "is not a man who sees America as you and I do."