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Super Socialite Desiree Rogers, 46 is President of both Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas. She is also a mother (of one daughter Victoria), a political fundraiser, and highly active on the Chicago Social Scene. Rogers was elected President of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas in 2004 after working in a series of high profile positions in Peoples Energy including Chief Marketing Officer, Senior Vice President of Customer Service, and Vice President of Corporate Communications. She also served a six year stint as Director of the Illinois State Lottery. Rogers is Vice-Chairman of the Lincoln Park Zoo and serves...

Sting: Obama Was 'Sent From God', Critics 'Violent and Full of Fear' By Lachlan Markay Created 2009-10-30 13:58 Many Hollywood leftists consider President Obama a figurative godsend. Some, including Sting, think he was literally sent from God. The former Police front-man told the Associated Press that he believes that Obama is a gift from Heaven, delivered to shepherd the befuddled masses to providence (h/t Ace [1]). "In many ways, he's sent from God," Sting said in an interview with the AP [2]. He heaped praise upon the President for his ability to lead the country though the "mess" in which...

Nothing to fear—yet Gene Lyons Nobody should be surprised to see the nation’s esteemed celebrity news media align with FOX News against the White House, although even a cynical observer like me found the unanimity mildly shocking. Don’t they remember what journalism was supposed to be? Supposedly, the press regulates its own behavior. In reality, that’s been a joke for two decades. “Claiming the moral authority of a code of professional ethics it idealizes in the abstract but repudiates in practice,” I wrote in 2003, “today’s Washington press corps has grown as decadent and self-protective as any politician or interest...

War without end Gene Lyons One of the enduring oddities of American foreign policy debate is that asking the most obvious questions is all but forbidden. For example, how does Afghanistan pose a threat to the United States? Certainly not in any military sense. The impoverished, largely illiterate Afghans have no army apart from the one U.S. and NATO forces, with very limited success, are trying to train, no air force, no navy, no offensive military capacity whatsoever. From the U.S. perspective, Afghanistan is the absolute end of the earth. Indeed, it’s not a nation at all. The idea that...

The parents met in acting class in California?

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Joe Wilson, real name "Addison" presents himself as a hard boiled combat veteran, retired Army colonel and all around tough guy. He belongs to "white supremacist" organizations, fought hard to keep the Confederate flag in South Carolina and, when an aide to the notorious racist Strom Thurmond admitted Thurmond had a half African-American daughter, Wilson abused and threatened the woman in an attempt to shut her up. His real record is Vietnam. Born in 1947, Wilson was prime material for the Vietnam War. After taking deferment after deferment for college and law school, in 1972, Wilson was...

What to make of Ron Paul? The word erratic comes to mind. On domestic spending, he is a righteous guardian of small government, while on foreign affairs he is a dangerous isolationist who believes the world will leave us alone if we just tend to our own knitting. And as far as Sarah Palin and her supporters go, he is a space cadet, apparently. An interview with Politico published today contains this startling assertion from Paul: 'As for soon-to-be departing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Paul dismisses her supporters as "more establishment, conventional Country-Club type of Republicans."' This is odd indeed,...

FReep this poll: what kind of senator will Al Franken be?

......“If there are any tea baggers here, welcome, and white power,” she said to laughs, before darting into a commentary on thongs, Spanx and a 22-hour flight to Australia

CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid @ 5:16 pm by Michael O'Brien CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance. "From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid,...

Liberal retard Jon Stewart opines that President Harry Truman is a war criminal for dropping two atomic bombs, which saved thousands upon thousands of not just American lives but Japanese lives as well, and that events like 9/11 are more preferable then waterboarding 3 scum-sucking homicidal terrorists.

Clintonista Paul Begala says all you unpatriotic, wimpy, whiney Americans out there should just shut up and pay your taxes. "Why are they out there whining with this Tea Party thing? Just a bunch of wimpy, whiney, weasels who don't love their country and don't want to support - there are guys at Walter Reed who gave their legs for my country, and they're whining because they have to write a check?" the political consultant who worked in Bill Clinton's White House told Don Imus.

Last night, I was accosted by my professor due to a question we recieved on our midterm test: A non-partisan, legal organization that defends all individual rights and liberties by the Constitution and laws of the United States is: A: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) B: American Bar Association (ABA) C: Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) D: Association of Pension Lawyers (APL)" Well, on my midterm, I wrote below the choices (E) None of the above. While we were grading, he specifically called me out and told me to defend my point, where I counted SEVERAL ways why the questioning...

Editor: Once again you have allowed Ann Coulter's noxious, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, neurotic screed to insult entire groups of people, in this case, the intellectually challenged, or the "retarded," which is her preferred usage, and teachers, whom she attacks with an irrational ferocity. She demeans public schools, public school teachers and, apparently, all education that is publicly funded. Why? In last Monday's column, Coulter dismisses Nancy Pelosi as "the first elected mentally retarded" Speaker of the House. I can't fault Coulter's abusive, misinformed, morally bankrupt and irrelevant whining. She makes a fortune off of an ever-shrinking bunch of illiterate, unthinking...

If you were dying to know what Gwen Ifill was thinking when the controversy arose about her so-called Obama book and how that might have effected her ability to moderate the 2008 vice-presidential debate - now's your chance. Ifill, the host of PBS's "Washington Week" appeared at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 24 to promote her new book, "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama." The book was a focal point of controversy last fall and questions were raised as to whether Ifill could be an impartial moderator of the vice-presidential debate,...

Celebs letting Obama know he is not alone in his fight for what's right. The video appears on the left margin on the MSN.com web page.

Ronnie Chapman has hidden away his American flag for much of the past eight years. "I felt it was no longer a symbol of the country I love, but of Bush and support for his war," said the 48-year-old pharmacist from Cary. "The first thing I did the morning after the election was take it from my den and fly it proudly in front of my house."

I]t seems to be a win-win for McCain. The Palin obsession — which she has fed by going on a media tour and returning to the Lower 48 for the RGA meeting — obscures the mistakes McCain made in his own campaign (though some would say one of those was in picking the Alaska governor). The central debate in the GOP is not now what typically takes place after a party loses — what the candidate did wrong or whether he ran too far to the left, right or middle.

Hi there! I'm a liberal, and I want to help you guys out. The fact is that neither side was particularly well represented this year, and in the interest of improving the level of conversation between liberals and conservatives, I thought I would offer to answer some questions and give some advice. Read the rest before you ask, please, and if I say something that sounds sarcastic, it probably is, but I mean no offense.

Former beauty queen Sarah Palin has breathed new life into the American frontier legend giving her instant appeal across America. Advertising herself at the Republican convention with the words “We grow good people in our small towns”, Palin has used her fresh face and unmistakable voice to inject a dose of pure nostalgia into the American presidential mix. The continual search for re-birth and newness is a familiar theme in American politics and Palin’s positive reception reminds me of Oscar Wilde’s quip that “The youth of America is their oldest tradition”. Outside of America, Palin’s paltry number of passport stamps...