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Daley: It's Time for Me, Chicago to Move On

After 38 years of public service, 21 of them as Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley announces he will not seek a seventh term.

NHS in Wales faces £380m cutbacks

The Welsh NHS faces making £380m worth of cutbacks by April next year, with managers saying it is the biggest challenge they have faced in 20 years. BBC Wales research shows savings targets have been imposed on staff pay and changes made to hospital...Source: BBC News

The Sin of Indulging Your Guilty Conscience

Bruckner, a Paris-born intellectual with a gift for aphorism, takes deadly aim at Europe’s self-hatred — the spirit that pervades the continent. “Europe sees its history as a series of murders and depredations that culminated in two global conflicts,”...Source: National Review Online

Why the Right Fears Transforming America

The “us” are conservatives. The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plans for America was his repeated use of the words “fundamentally transform.” Some of us instinctively reacted negatively — in fact, with horror — at the thought...Source: National Review Online

Americans Wake Up to Islamism

But no, something more symbolic roiled the body politic — the prospect of a mosque in close proximity to the World Trade Center’s former location. What began as a local zoning matter morphed over the months into a national debate with potential...Source: National Review Online

Inherited from Whom?

No president of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress before...

Obama seeks biz equipment write-off

President Obama has a new proposal allowing companies to write off their investments in equipment. Obama will lay out the proposal, which the White House says could be worth nearly $200 billion over two years, during a speech in Cleveland on Wednesday.

At State, Clinton gains stature

Hillary Clinton seems to have hit her stride in her partnership with President Barack Obama. This year is different. In many ways, when Clinton gives a foreign policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, it will be coming as she...

One-Seat Majority Is Democrats’ Bottom Line

House Democrats have one goal, and only one goal, when it comes to Nov. 2: Hold on to a bare majority. Democrats have long acknowledged the challenges they face this fall. But with the economy still teetering and voters unhappy with Democratic...Source: CQ Politics

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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 06: The Marine One helicopter with U.S. President Barack Obama aboard lands on the South Lawn of the White House on September 6, 2010, in Washington, DC.
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