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On the election map, the State of Israel is not just blue and white; it is solidly red. The Presidential election results are in. Well, at least the votes from Americans in Israel. Not one to keep readers in suspense, I’ll reveal the most important numbers up front: Gov. Mitt Romney received 85%–85%!–of the vote; President Obama managed only 14.3%. This, according to exit polling just released by iVoteIsrael, the non-partisan group promoting and facilitating voting by U.S. citizens currently in Israel. Their statistics reveal some fascinating results. More importantly, these results have implications for the outcome of next week’s...

* The only thing that will save Congresswoman Melissa Bean is a miracle...

In 2010, the citizens of Illinois should send to the Capitol a senator who will bring expertise and independence. The candidate who fits that bill is Mark Kirk. Today the Tribune endorses Kirk, a Republican, for the U.S. Senate seat that Roland Burris soon vacates. To understand our verdict, watch Giannoulias and Kirk's appearance before us this week. You'll find the video at chicagotribune.com/senate. Judge each man's depth and preparedness for the job. Judge knowledge and scope. Judge accomplishment. Judge which candidate has a proven record of thoughtful independence — of bucking his party when the good of this nation...

Israeli satire of the BBC

Liberals who’ve been uneasy to downright dismayed with Barack Obama’s recent drift toward the political center now that he’s the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee can take some comfort in his lightly-publicized statement last week on California’s upcoming referendum on gay marriage.

A Northwest Side man was charged with a hate crime and his three adult sons were charged with felony aggravated battery in an alleged attack on a motorist in which racial epithets were shouted, prosecutors said. Mahmoud Alkhazaleh, 53, of the 5500 block of North Mango Avenue also was charged with aggravated battery and vehicle invasion in a June 9 attack on a man who allegedly had honked his horn to prod Alkhazaleh to step out of the path of his truck, according to court documents. Alkhazaleh called the victim a "blue-eyed devil" and an " 'American [expletive]' during a...

Pfleger a headache for Obama. Axelrod documentary on Pfleger.WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Michael Pfleger's "I'm white! I'm entitled ... black man stealing my show" outburst about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from the pulpit of the Obama family church, Trinity United Church of Christ, created a political problem for likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama that won't disappear. Pfleger's crusades against guns, prostitution, porn and tobacco have made good copy for years for a fairly admiring local press corps hooked on cheering for the underdog, the poor and the powerless. Pfleger is the subject of a documentary being made by Chicago-based...

<p>I normally ignore Rush Limbaugh, but his comments last Wednesday went too far for me to remain silent. It's one thing to call me "Dingy Harry" - it's another to insult our men and women in uniform, calling those who oppose the war "phony soldiers" as Rush did during his Sept. 26 broadcast.</p>

The Stone Merchant Il Mercante Di Pietre (Italy-U.K.) By DEBORAH YOUNG   A Medusa release of a Martinelli Film Co./Creative Partners Intl./Box Film Prods. Co-production in association with Medusa Film/Sky. Produced by Andre Djaoui, , Renzo Martinelli. Directed by Renzo Martinelli. Screenplay, Martinelli, Fabio Campus, based on a novel by Corrado Calabro. Ludovico Vicedomini - Harvey KeitelAlceo - Jordi MollaLeda - Jane MarchShahid - F. Murray Abraham  Swimming against the tide of popular thrillers like and Michel Haneke's that seek the roots of Islamic violence in the West's own backyard, Italian action director Renzo Martinelli foments a bit more paranoia and panic...

In the News | 2003 Releases | 2002 Releases | 2001 Releases | 2000 Releases1999 Releases | 2000 Press Photos | 1999 Press Photos | Speeches   Press Release   NOVEMBER 17, 2005   SCHAKOWSKY COMMENDS CONGRESSMAN MURTHA FOR HIS CALL TO WITHDRAW AMERICAN TROOPS FROM IRAQ WASHINGTON, DC -  U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky, a founding member of the Out-of-Iraq Caucus, today released a statement commending Congressman John Murtha’s call for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Representative Schakowsky’s full statement is below: “Today, Congressman John Murtha, a decorated war veteran and national leader on defense, called for...

My father-in-law Lenny is dead. 81 years old and very ill. He spent the last year of his life in hospitals and nursing homes suffering from heart failure, kidney failure and other ailments too numerous to mention. He spent his last days gasping for oxygen until virtually every organ in his body gave out. Physically, Lenny was a small man, perhaps five foot six. You had to be small to fit in the belly of a P-38, which is how Lenny spent much of 1944 and 45. Lenny was an aerial reconnaissance photographer in the US Army Air Force in...

This presidential election is essentially a referendum on the war in Iraq. If John Kerry wins, the world will believe that his victory was the result of the war. More specifically, the world will believe that the insurgents in Iraq, by killing large numbers of American soldiers and beheading hostages, sapped American resolve and defeated George W. Bush. The insurgents in Iraq will be seen by everyone as having won a major victory. Kerry, in fact, has encouraged this perception by using the deaths in Iraq in his campaign. He has spoken of the beheadings of hostages and the deaths...

Reaction to debate seems positive for Bush on Tradesports

Anti-Zionism (sic) Hollywood Legend Brando Passes Away (snip) Brando has frequently warned that Israel was a conspiratorial and invisible enemy of the United States . Interviewed by CNN’s Larry King in April 1996, Brando said Hollywood was run and owned by Jews. "We never see the mockey Jew on TV or in the movies," he told King. "It [ Hollywood ] is owned by the Jews they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering." The Jewish lobby has launched a ferocious campaign at the legend actor and, of course, accused him of being anti-Semitic....

Born in northwest Illinois where his boyhood home is now a monument. Spent part of his life in Iowa. Republican office holder. Had a failed marriage followed by a long successful one. Spent time in Hollywood and worked in the movies. Died in Los Angeles. Remembered as a legendary American. This describes Ronald Reagan and who else?

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Jewish money: Bush raising Jewish funds from Republicans and Democrats By Matthew E. Berger When Fred Zeidman raised money in the Jewish community for George W. Bush's presidential run in 2000, several Jewish supporters asked to give their donations in cash, afraid of having a public record of their transaction. But this time around, Zeidman is not encountering timid Jews. He said many Jewish donors are eager to leap onto the Bush-Cheney bandwagon. "The difference is night and day," said Zeidman, whom Bush appointed as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council in 2002. "You can't believe how easy it...

I am having a debate in another venue and I need links to articles detailing the use of schools, hospitals, ambulances, etc. by Saddam Hussein's army for illegal military purposes. I seem to remember quite a few articles about that posted here during the war.

This lineup is ... ah ... By Molly Ivins Creators Syndicate Oh, good. It looks as though we're going to have as big a fight over postwar plans for Iraq as we did over the war itself. Just what we need -- more of everybody being at everybody else's throat.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems prepared to run the world, favors one Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile-emigre group, as postwar leader (read figurehead-puppet). Chalabi is bitterly opposed by both the State Department and the CIA.According to Knight-Ridder's Jonathan Landay, American military planes flew Chalabi and 700...

Iraqis hope Bush Jr. unlike Bush Sr.Baghdad | Reuters | 15-Dec-2000 Iraqis expressed hope yesterday that it would not be a case of "like father like son" when it comes to the Iraq policy of U.S. President-elect George W. Bush. Iraqi authorities did not rush to comment on the election victory of Bush, but they had said it would not matter if he or Vice President Al Gore won as both would maintain the hostile U.S. stance towards Baghdad. The news also broke too late in the night for the Iraqi official press to report it or to comment...