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Wheatland Township Democrats - News PortalWelcome to the Democratic Party of Wheatland Township News Portal. Access to the top political stories from MSNBC, CNN, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post as well as all the Wheatland Website news summarized for you on one easy to view News Portal. Check back here often as things are changing all the time...
Wheatland Township Democrats - News PortalWelcome to the Democratic Party of Wheatland Township News Portal. Access to the top political stories from MSNBC, CNN, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post as well as all the Wheatland Website news summarized for you on one easy to view News Portal. Check back here often as things are changing all the time...
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Monthly Jobs Report Looms
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9/2/2010 7:58:54 PM By The Page by Mark Halperin
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August unemployment numbers due out Friday morning. Obama to respond in 10:00 am ET Rose Garden remarks. Developing.... 
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Army 'birther' loses ruling on evidence
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9/2/2010 7:30:59 PM By msnbc.com: Politics
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An Army judge rules that proof of President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.
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President mulls new measures to spark economy
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9/2/2010 7:14:41 PM By CNN Political Ticker
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President Obama will shift his focus back to the economy on Friday. Washington (CNN) - After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it's back to the economy for President Barack Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers. Then, Obama is scheduled to give two big speeches next week [...]
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Arizona governor stumbles during debate
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9/2/2010 6:29:00 PM By msnbc.com: Politics
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 Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled and stammered through her opening statement during a televised debate Wednesday night, suffering through an embarrassing, cringe-eliciting pause that lasted more than 10 seconds.
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Anchor Notes: John King and Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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9/2/2010 5:02:59 PM By CNN Political Ticker
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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio spoke with CNN’s Chief National Correspondent John King on Thursday. Washington (CNN) – A defiant Sheriff Joe Arpaio accused the Obama Justice Department of trying to "sandbag" him by filing suit against his office Thursday. On another issue rippling through Arizona politics, the lawman said he has never heard of a [...]
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Mideast negotiators already mull possible third round of talks
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9/2/2010 4:12:26 PM By CNN Political Ticker
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Special Envoy George Mitchell in a trilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Secretary’s Office on Thursday. (PHOTO CREDIT: State Department Official Photograph) Washington (CNN) – President Obama's Middle East peace initiative this week has led to promises of a [...]
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Obama Presser in the Works
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9/2/2010 3:38:03 PM By The Page by Mark Halperin
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President to take questions from reporters Sept. 10 at the White House. 
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Obama to hold news conference September 10
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9/2/2010 3:19:15 PM By CNN Political Ticker
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President Obama will hold a news conference on Sept. 10. Washington (CNN) –President Obama will have a news conference next Friday September 10, his first full-scale question-and-answer session at the White House in nearly four months according to his aides. The news conference will come at an action-packed time for the President, just days after [...]
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Obama and Biden headed back to Ohio
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9/2/2010 3:10:54 PM By CNN Political Ticker
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Obama and Biden will both visit Ohio next week. Washington (CNN) - President Obama and Vice President Biden are both returning to Ohio next week, the fourth White House visit to the politically crucial state in less than a month. The White House said Thursday that President Obama will make remarks on the economy in [...]
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Midwest Tests
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9/2/2010 2:36:49 PM By The Page by Mark Halperin
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Obama to visit Ohio and Wisconsin next week to talk about the economy. 
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Round Two
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9/2/2010 2:00:08 PM By The Page by Mark Halperin
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Mitchell announces second set of peace talks to take place September 14-15 in the Middle East. 
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ON THE SUNDAY SHOWS
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9/2/2010 12:00:37 PM By The Page by Mark Halperin
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Meet the Press: Rubio, Meek debate; Sen. Graham, David Plouffe This Week: Tony Blair 
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DOJ sues Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio
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9/2/2010 11:50:07 AM By msnbc.com: Politics
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In an atmosphere of tension between the federal government and Arizona, the Justice Department today dialed it up some more, filing a lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- accusing him, the county, and his office with failing to cooperate with a civil rights investigation of his office.
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Did Obama's agenda hobble the recovery?
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9/2/2010 11:04:27 AM By msnbc.com: Politics
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 The economic hard times are so persistent that observers who supported the Recovery Act might be feeling twinges of guilt about President Obama's stimulus package.
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First Read: Mayday, mayday
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9/2/2010 8:14:11 AM By msnbc.com: Politics
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There’s no question that this summer has been brutal for Democrats and the Obama White House. What explains the summer slide and where did it begin?
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9/2/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
It was just about a year ago that we were hearing stories about President Obama's intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Again. The president's most ardent defenders insisted that we shouldn't listen to unnamed and anonymous sources, and should instead wait and see what happened. And then when he escalated, pretty much as had been reported, we were told that it was the right move, and we should support it. The same dynamic played out with the public option. For months, while it became increasingly apparent that the president wouldn't fight for a public option, we were told that he kept saying he supported one, and we didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. When the public option was punted, we were told that it never had been all that important, anyway, and the health insurance bill that was passed was all kinds of wonderful, so we should just be appreciative and grateful. |
| | - Krugman: It’s Witch-Hunt Season - | |
8/30/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administration to unrelenting harassment — at one point taking 140 hours of sworn testimony over accusations that the White House had misused its Christmas card list. |
| | - The Illustrated Man- | |
8/29/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Our maddening times demand that the truth be forthrightly stated at the outset, and not just that the president has nothing in common with the führer beyond the possession of a dog. The outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he wasn’t born outside the United States (the tabloid “proof” has been debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his policies are not “socialist” (he explicitly rejected advice to nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a “warmonger” (he promised in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the killing of more “high value” Qaeda targets in 18 months than his predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that’s just the short list of lies. |
| | - Estimates Say Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge - | |
8/29/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Nothing is more important to Republican politicians these days than jobs and the deficit—at least according to Republican politicians. As House Minority Leader John Boehner put it in a " major economic address " on Tuesday, President Obama is "doing everything possible to prevent jobs from being created" while refusing to do anything at all "about bringing down the deficits that threaten our economy." Elect Republicans in November, Boehner assured his audience, and we will put an end to this insanity. |
| | - Kirk gets $3.4 million campaign boost from Republican committee -- | |
8/28/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Mark Kirk's campaign Friday confirmed that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will be committing major funds toward his Senate bid.
The committee plans to give Kirk, of Highland Park, $3.4 million in the race against Chicago Democrat Alexi Giannoulias - double the amount usually allowed. The Politico website reported that the committee indicated it would take advantage of a technical ruling in order to commit that much money to the race.
U.S. Judge John Grady has ordered two separate elections on the November ballot for the Senate seat, formerly President Barack Obama's. |
| | | - America Is Better Than This - | |
8/28/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Beck is a provocateur who likes to play with matches in the tinderbox of racial and ethnic confrontation. He seems oblivious to the real danger of his execrable behavior. He famously described President Obama as a man “who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
He is an integral part of the vicious effort by the Tea Party and other elements of the right wing to portray Mr. Obama as somehow alien, a strange figure who is separate and apart from — outside of — ordinary American life. As the watchdog group Media Matters for America has noted, Beck said of the president, “He chose to use the name, Barack, for a reason, to identify not with America — you don’t take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify, with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?” |
| | - Will County to welcome new judges in 2011 -- | |
8/27/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
JOLIET -- Early next year, there will be three new associate judges serving Will County.
On Aug. 3, Will County Associate Judge James Garrison announced that he will retire Dec. 30. And two other associate judges -- Bobbi Petrungaro and Robert Livas -- are running unopposed in the November election for positions as subcircuit judges.
In Will County, the circuit and subcircuit judges are elected by voters. The associate judges are then chosen by the circuits and subcircuit judges. |
| | - Tainted water claims at Midwest Generation -- | |
8/27/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
JOLIET -- Environmental groups contend the water around Midwest Generation's Joliet station is being contaminated and state regulators aren't doing anything about it.
The local groups and Sierra Club held a rally Thursday in Joliet as part of a national campaign calling for tighter regulations over the disposal of coal ash from power plants.
While the groups contend the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is ignoring its own findings of groundwater contamination, an IEPA official said the agency has not found any significant threats to water supplies from the Midwest Generation operations. |
| | - Kirk, Giannoulias agree to Senate debates -- | |
8/26/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias have agreed to participate in two debates and could hold more.
Representatives say the U.S. Senate candidates will face off on Oct. 10 on NBC's "Meet the Press." They've also agreed to participate in the Oct. 19 League of Women Voters' debate on Chicago's WLS-TV. |
| | - Economy has pantry in scramble for donations -- | |
8/26/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
As the economy continues to struggle, so too do many Naperville area residents who never thought they'd find themselves turning to a community pantry to meet their basic needs.
But the number of first-time users of the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry is climbing, said Jody Bender, community relations director for the facility. From July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2010, Loaves & Fishes saw a 220 percent increase in first-time users. Last month, 141 new families signed up, the largest new enrollment since September 2009. During July, groceries were distributed to 5,243 people including 440 single moms, 537 senior citizens and 2,174 children. |
| | - Pradel, Miller still considering run for Naperville mayor -- | |
8/25/2010 Democratic Party of Wheatland Township | |
Naperville's longest-serving mayor hasn't decided yet, but he has made hints that it might be time to turn in his gavel.
"I'm not really announcing that I'm going to run for the mayor yet, but I am intending to pull a packet today or tomorrow," said Mayor A. George Pradel on Tuesday.
Petitions for candidacy for the mayor's office and four seats on the City Council were made available in the clerk's office Tuesday morning. The terms of Pradel and council members James Boyajian, Robert Fieseler, Richard Furstenau and Grant Wehrli expire in 2011. |
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