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It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump associate who oversees federal housing programs in New York. Ms. Patton told a leader of a tenants’ group at the New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authority’s buildings, which have long been in poor repair. Four tenants soon assembled in front of a video camera and were interviewed for more than four hours by Ms. Patton herself. Three of the tenants were never told that their interviews would be edited into a...

On Tuesday, ISIS terrorists beheaded American journalist James Foley. President Obama responded by bombing the fourth green during his long vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. He also lectured ISIS on the true meaning of Islam: “ISIL speaks for no religion…ISIL has no ideology of any value to human beings….One thing we can all agree on is that a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.” The faculty-lounge insult approach has proved ineffective. ISIS is now threatening to kill journalist Steven Sotloff. They reportedly hold two other Americans as well. And they will undoubtedly seek to kidnap more Americans...

President Obama on Thursday night will appeal to Congress to "stop the political circus" and help him get the economy moving again with a package of spending and tax cut initiatives expected to cost $447 billion. "The people of this country work hard to meet their responsibilities," Mr. Obama will say before a joint session of Congress, according to his prepared remarks. "The question tonight is whether we'll meet ours. The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy." Calling his economic package...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has twice vetoed legislation to unionize grandmas, but the Democrats in the Legislature seem to think he might now change his mind and sign their latest bill to do just that. He shouldn't. Senate Bill 867, now on the governor's desk, is part of a nationwide plan by organized labor to unite family child care providers into a single entity in each state that would bargain collectively to set rates rather than allowing community standards to prevail. The bill is aimed at the grandmothers, aunts and others who stepped into the breach when the state forced more...

WASHINGTON, March 9 — Over the next few weeks, the new Democratic Congressional majority will try to translate public discontent with the war in Iraq into actual policy, with a series of votes on the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq — the party’s most consequential votes yet. Skip to next paragraph Doug Mills/The New York Times A TV camera viewfinder caught Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, right, who, with Senator Charles E. Schumer, spoke to reporters about the war in Iraq. But the Democrats face some extraordinary political and institutional hurdles, which explain why Congress wades so reluctantly —...

Subject: Democratic Convention Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:29:10 -0500 7:00 P.M. Opening flag burning. 7:15 P.M. Pledge of allegiance to the United Nations. 7:30 P.M. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 7:30 - 8:00 P.M. Non religious prayer and worship(mostly to selves) == Jessie Jackson & Al Sharpton. 8:00 P.M. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 8:05 P.M. Ceremonial tree hugging. 8:15 - 8:30 P.M. Gay Wedding -- Barney Frank Presiding. 8:30 P.M. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 8:35 P.M. Free Saddam Rally. Cindy Sheehan -- Susan Sarandon. 9:00 P.M. Keynote speaker: The proper etiquette for surrender – French President Jacques...

Hartford -- Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot. Staffers for Lieberman, who lost the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, called both efforts dirty politics. The senator filed as an independent candidate a day after the loss, running under the new Connecticut for Lieberman party. A group whose members described themselves as peace activists asked Sharon...