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Gas-Saving Moment of the Day: Lose Some Weight
KickingTiresRemember how we told you that added weight in the car could cost you mileage? Well, we're not just talking about the golf clubs in your trunk. In 2006, studies by the University of Illinois and Virginia Commonwealth University determined......Tags: Clubs and Associations, Education, Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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Chinese Part of Mini-Truck Mania
KickingTiresYou may have heard that Chinese automakers are coming to the U.S. soon. In reality, they're already been here for years, in the form of mini-trucks. The trucks are part of a growing trend of people using on public roads......Tags: Passenger Cars, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Heavy Engineering, Standards
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Barack Obama records sealed at Illinois
The Swampby Mark Silva The University of Illinois has refused to release records related to Sen. Barack Obama's service for a nonprofit educational project that put him in contact with activist William Ayers, a 1960s-era radical and now education professor. The......Tags: Charity, Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Interior Policy, Social Issues
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Illinois releasing Barack Obama's records
The Swampby Mark Silva DENVER -- As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, the University of Illinois at Chicago said today that it will release records of Sen. Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization...Tags: Education, Political Candidates, John McCain, Democratic Party, Weather Underground
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Obama campaign confronts WGN radio
The Swampby John McCormick and Steve Schmadeke, updated DENVER -- Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air. "target="_blank"rel="...Tags: Elections, Political Candidates, University of Illinois at Chicago, Radio Industry, Barack Obama
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McCain (Palin) v Obama: 'Uncivil brawl?'
The Swampby Mark Silva It didn't take Sarah Palin long to pivot from the charming "you-betcha'' sort of "hockey mom'' whom Americans welcomed to the contest to a threatening "gotcha'' sort of rough-housing "pit-bull'' apparently willing to say anything to get........Tags: Government, John McCain, Terrorism, Weather Underground, Barack Obama
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What about Todd and the secessionists?
Spin CycleWith the GOP gearing up an attack on Obama over his associations with Tony Rezko and ex-Weatherman William Ayers and Sarah Palin accusing him of consorting with terrorists and not seeing America the way she does, Dems wonder if......Tags: Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground
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Video: Obama didn't know about Ayers?
Spin CycleOne of only a few documented encounters Obama had with ex-radical Bill Ayers was in 1995, when he hosted a dinner at which Hyde Park's outgoing state senator introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Today, on CNN, Obama's chief strategist......Tags: Benjamin Smith (football), Richard M. Daley, Michelle Obama, Newspapers, Regional Authority
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Michelle Obama: 'Demonizing' is wrong
The Swampby Mark Silva Michelle Obama, the candidate's wife, says she isn't too worrried about John McCain's reference to her husband the other night in debate as "that one'' -- as in the one who voted for a pork-laden energy bill......Tags: Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bill Ayers, Barack Obama
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Obama: Thought Ayers was rehabilitated
Spin CycleThe GOP seems to have fired up the kettles of interest against on Obama-Ayers. So, Obama was asked it about today in a radio talk with Michael Smerconish, a conservative radio talk show host in Philadelphia. Audio is at......Tags: Ronald Reagan, Education, Republican Party, John McCain, Bill Ayers
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McCain: Obama 'decent' but 'lied'
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, at the end of a long and tumultuous week on the campaign trail. Republican John McCain appeared to want to have it two ways with his Democratic rival, Barack Obama: At once slamming Obama with a......Tags: Government, John McCain, Weather Underground, Barack Obama, National Government
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'Obama's a Muslim' rumor author exposed
The Swampby Frank James So now we know the genesis of the false Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor. According to the New York Times, Patient Zero in this particular epidemic which has virally spread around the nation thanks to the Internet is a......Tags: Corruption, Florida State University, Parliament, Upper House, Colleges and Universities
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