Federal prosecutors intend to ask a federal judge to sentence former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to a 15- to 20-year prison term.Not a good end at all, but what can be said. Do the crime pay the time and at that don't do it publicly like he seemed to have done. Made all the wrong moves.
Judge James Zagel is scheduled to sentence Blagojevich on his corruption conviction next week. The sentencing hearing begins on Tuesday.
Embattled presidential candidate Herman Cain stayed on message in a foreign policy address in Michigan Tuesday night, pledging to restore America’s place in the world by firming up the economy.
And following the speech, Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon said that Cain was not dropping out of the GOP presidential contest and was “in it to win it.”
Right before the speech Tuesday, Cain sent out an e-mail to supporters asking them to “Stand with me.” The missive sought to assure supporters that White was “troubled” and that her story was “completely false.”
“Let me assure you, I am not deterred,” Cain insisted, despite the fact that aides candidly said earlier that the campaign was reassessing its position in the GOP race.
I THINK MOREHOUSE BROTHER HERMAN CAIN IS GOING DOWN UNFORTUNATELY! Another woman has come forward alleging a sexual relationship with Cain:Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is speaking out against another allegation of sexual misconduct, this time before the woman has been able to make the claim publicly.It appears that story has aired on the ATL FOX affiliate. Just saw clips of this interview on FOX's Special Report!
There will soon be "another accusation that I had an affair with someone, a woman," Cain said on CNN today.
Fox News' Atlanta affiliate, Fox 5, has been promoting an exclusive report about "new, local allegations against Herman Cain."
Cain said he expects a woman to accuse him of having a long-term affair with her. Cain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he did know the woman for 13 years and considered her a friend, but emphatically denied any affair.
Wall Street executives are bracing for the possibility that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will take over as the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee after Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) retires.Via Newsalert!
Waters is in line for Frank’s spot and could become chairwoman of the panel if Democrats retake the House. Frank announced Monday that he will not seek another term in the House.
The California liberal is considered left of Frank, an architect of 2010’s Wall Street reform bill, on financial issues.
While banks and other financial institutions often battled Frank, he was seen as someone they could work with. Wall Street views Waters as more of an opponent.
“She's not a good face of the issues,” one financial executive said. “She's too much of a bomb thrower.”
Citing the political challenges he faced because of congressional redistricting, prominent Democratic Rep. Barney Frank on Monday announced he will not seek re-election in 2012.
"I don't want to be torn [between] a full-fledged campaign... and my obligation to my current constituents," Frank said from the Newton, Massachusetts City Hall.
Conventional wisdom dictates that keeping transit fares as low as possible will promote high ridership levels. That isn't entirely incorrect. Holding all else constant, raising fares would have a negative impact on ridership. But allowing the market to set transit fares, when coupled with a number of key reforms could actually increase transit ridership, even if prices increase. In order to implement these reforms, we would need to purge from our minds the idea that public transit is a welfare service that ought to be virtually free in order to accommodate the poor. Concern about poverty should drive welfare policy, not transit policy. Persistent efforts to keep public transit fares as low as possible are a big part of the reason that public transit ridership in North America has hit record lows. To increase ridership, transit agencies have to convince people who can afford to drive that transit is a better option. Convenience, and not lower prices, is the key.I could look at it this way, those with the ability to pay for it will use it whether or not they're rich or poor. I would point the finger at those who have jobs especially they should be able to pay their fares. And perhaps higher fares could result in a better level of service. You know I remember I complained about high fares a few times.
In September, a 53 year-old woman named Vivian Joy was stopped for a broken tail-light in Champaign, Illinois. And then, because the cops discovered that she still hadn't paid $2,200 to a collection agency, she was cuffed and carted off to jail.This article concludes that since companies don't go to jail when they default on debts then neither should people. Makes sense to me!
I wonder if that young man who knocked that homeless man on the L knows that his face has been shown on FOX news! Not fun and games anymore!Of all places this young man's face from the video above was blasted in a screen shot on The O'Reilly Factor!
But Frank Rich and his ilk have been unable to wrap their minds around that fact for nearly 50 years.What fact?
The cold, hard fact of that day in Dallas is this: Whether Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman or by a conspiracy that included others, Dallas’ “climate” had nothing to do with it. Dallas was the scene of the crime but wasn’t responsible for it. Lee Harvey Oswald was not a mainstream Dallas man. He would not have been a Tea Partier. Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist. He had defected to the Soviet Union, become disillusioned, and returned. He had tried to travel to Cuba and failed. If hate was Oswald’s motive in Kennedy’s killing, the hate lived in the chest of a man who had failed at life, had rejected the freedoms of his country, and used bullets to write himself into the history books. Lee Harvey Oswald was an America-hating leftist.I placed the last two sentences in bold. And ya know, I can't believe people could deny this fact. You don't have to be right-wing or left-wing to see this.
The point was made that there are very few African Americans being funded for technology start-ups in Silicon Valley. It is obvious that creating a vanguard of technology CEOs begins with the education that we give to our young people.
Quincy Alderman Mike Rein (R-5th Ward) has a non-binding resolution before the Quincy City Council tonight that asks the City to support a Concealed Carry handgun law.I think a Chicago Alderman needs to make a statement like this but none seem willing to stick their neck out on this issue.
“It’s unfortunate that this is necessary,” said Rein, who is an avid outdoorsman who teaches hunting safety classes. “The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. But in Illinois, our state lawmakers have decided to violate the law of the land.”
Illinois is the only state that doesn’t allow Concealed Carry. Rein says he realizes this is only a first step.
