From the 12/23/08 Huffington Post With the Obama transition team set to release an internal report regarding the extent of its interactions with embattled governor Rod Blagojevich, one of the key figures in the mix is heading out of the country.Incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel left on Tuesday for a “long planned family vacation in Africa,” a transition official confirmed to the Huffington Post.
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The threat of Carol Moseley Braun becoming mayor…running second in the polls…beckoned me to support Rahm Emanuel as the only recourse to allowing Chicago to become another Detroit under the erratic Ms. Braun. But now that threat has been dispelled.It was dispelled for all practical purposes last Sunday when at a church function, the wild-card Ms. Braun turned to Patricia Watkins, the other African American candidate in the contest and said the only reason Watkins hadn’t heard what Braun...

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Q. What’s this? Just when he looks inevitable Rahm’s threatening businesses which cooperate with Chico? A. Yep, this is the same old Rahm who can’t stand prosperity. The dead fish in the opponent’s bed, the plunging a steak knife into a table to show what he will do to his enemies. When Gery Chico tried to hold a news conference at a gym to underscore his belief that Emanuel’s tax policy on so-called “luxury services” the forces of the Little Weasel threatened the gym owner and...

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On Saturday while at the Americans for Prosperity conference in San Diego, I got a few minutes to talk to Andrew Breitbart about the story and the scandal of the Pigford settlements. It’s a very complicated story, as Andrew explains in this 20-minute interview just before an hour-long presentation to the conference, which has made it difficult for some to follow. His efforts at Big Journalism have turned up a slew of documents and depositions from an earlier FBI probe into the Pigford I and Pigford...

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From the Rockerfeller institute of Government Illinois tax revenue increased by 2.7% between the periods of Q3 2009 and Q3 2010. Indiana tax revenue increased 6.9% and Wisconsin tax revenue increased 5.5% in the same period. HT Newsalert
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In response to our observation that Gross Private Domestic Investment actually declined 5.8% in Q4 of 2010, we asked our contributor Brian Wesbury for a further explanation of the drop. This nominal drop is highly misleading. Gross Private Domestic Investment (GPDI) includes 4 major components. 1) Residential Investment (mainly housing), which was up 5.3% at an annual rate. 2) Non-residential structures (plant, warehouses, office buildings, etc.), which was up 4.1%. 3) Non-residential equipment and...

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