Archive for January, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s response to the financial meltdown has made it more likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned.

The problems that led to the last…

For the past year, Republicans have been criticizing Barack Obama for out-of-control spending. So they must be pleased that they have forced him, in his State of the Union address, to concede the point by proposing a freeze on outlays of the kind…

A heated race for the Democratic governor nomination escalated along racial lines Saturday as Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes traded charges of incompetence fueled by the scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery and a TV ad featuring the late Mayor Harold…

Chicago attorneys Lewis Manilow and Patrick Giordano don’t pretend to be pulling the strings behind President Barack Obama’s push for high-speed rail. But they do admit to being very persistent.

For more than a year, Manilow and Giordano have prodded two…

There was a time early in his TV news career when Shepard Smith thought it best to clean up his delivery, scraping off the accent now caked onto his Fox News Channel delivery like the mud of his native Mississippi.

“Anything that’s real seems to work…

Barack Obama, I am afraid, sealed his fate as a one-term president Wednesday night. His State of the Union address was an opportunity missed. The speech was a chance for Obama to double-down; instead, he halved his bet. It was a chance for him to…

Students upset about cuts to education funding and groups leery of possible tax increase proposals are among those expected to protest Wednesday outside Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s eighth and final State of the State address.

Weather and other…

The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar…