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...bustling towns of commerce to planks and ghosts, and all the while hide your faces behind your masks of metal? Reveal yourselves! I shall at once run straight through any such villain as dares confront me, correcting these deep injustices and winning glory for my good lady Michelle of Chicago...
Michael Steele assumed the Republican party chairmanship barely a month ago, promising vast changes to help the GOP successfully compete in 21st century America. One of his first forays in that quest occurred Friday night, when Steele came to DuPage County, an affluent Chicago suburb of nearly one million, where the largely Republican establishment is battling an increasingly potent Democratic Party. (In November, the Dems took 3 of 18 seats on the county board, the highest in decades in the Republican stronghold...
Indeed, local Republicans are salivating at the prospect of fielding candidates for the seat should it open before 2010. Chief among them is Mark Kirk, recently reelected to a Congressional seat representing a nearby Chicago suburb. Kirk, in fact, is widely viewed as the kind of Republican social-moderate that Steele believes can succeed in Democratic-leaning states like Illinois. However, Kirk's moderate stances on issues like abortion and stem-cell research could prove problematic with social conservatives, particularly in the southern part of the state...
Cass Sunstein would not seem the kind of presidential appointee to get liberal groups up in arms. A professor at the University of Chicago Law School (and this year a visiting professor at Harvard) and prolific author, Sunstein is a reliable liberal on most questions of law and policy. So when President Barack Obama chose his old friend for a very powerful Washington job, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), it seemed safe to assume that the appointment would be treated as good news by the environmental, labor and consumer groups that have been in despair...
...person, for $499 on Holland America and $399 on Carnival; even $699 for seven days in Europe on the more upscale Celebrity. In fact, says Ken Heit, sales director at World Wide Cruises in Ft. Lauderdale, "If you live in an expensive city like San Francisco, Chicago or New York, it might be cheaper right now to spend a week on a cruise ship than to stay at home." (See pictures of the last voyage...