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"It's a done deal, and I'm about 90 percent sure that's the job he's getting," said one Alabama operative.

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Leo Strauss had Donne Trotter's number. Strauss was the University of Chicago professor who coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum .

Excerpts from letters to U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Wilkins, regarding the sentencing of Jesse and Sandi Jackson: "I have known Jesse Jr.

Robin Kelly , who gained national renown due to the millions of dollars spent on her race by a SuperPAC operated by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.... "MADE N NY" license plates on a Volvo ... Kelly obtained the license plates for her car in 2011, long before she ran for on's seat.

Today's arrest of Illinois State Sen. Donne Trotter by authorities at O'Hare International Airport for having a gun in his carry-on bag is a revealing look at the hypocrisy of anti-gunners, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. failed to file the required disclosure form required by federal ethics laws after his resignation, records show.

Newly-elected 2nd CD Congresswoman Robin Kelly - who replaced former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr - made an embarrassing national questioning debut today in the heavily-watching congressional hearing on the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012.

Rep. Marcia Fudge asked a judge to go easy on Jesse Jackson Jr. WASHINGTON -- Rep.

Asking for mercy for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to a federal judge last month calling Jackson intelligent, charming and entertaining the "highlight of our karaoke nights." The correspondence from Rep.

South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, who said Friday that he intends to help send Indian-American Republican Gov.

"They betrayed everything we worked for," says Jocelyn Cooper, 84, her delicate voice firm with rage.

Brad Martin , the newly appointed interim president of the University of Memphis who once hired Gov.

After receiving several e-mails with a "Chicago" theme, I decided to post two of the best.

To paraphrase the late Ronald Reagan, there they go again. Reagan, who used that line in a completely different context against Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984, could not have imagined a time when another Democratic politician would join a list of bad actors in attributing his atrocious behavior to mental illness, specifically ... (more)

There have been 441 shootings and 100 homicides in the city of Chicago so far this year, according to a blog that tracks crime in Chicago.

Two former Illinois Democratic Party officials have been convicted on multiple counts of election fraud, in a case that puts a strange light on President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in the Land of Lincoln.

What is happening to us? We've had an overabundance of low-integrity events over the last year.