Obama Attended Rezko Reception For Controversial Iraqi Billionaire
When Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi attended an April 3, 2004 reception for himself at Tony Rezko's home White House hopeful Barack Obama, and hi...
When Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi attended an April 3, 2004 reception for himself at Tony Rezko's home White House hopeful Barack Obama, and hi...
Chicago Tribune | David Jackson and John McCormick | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign released a new set of documents Saturday in its ongoing effort to paint the Illinois Democrat as more open and transparen...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Obama will appear tonight in an interview for PBS. When asked about his connection with indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko, he offers a novel explanation...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
The Chicago Tribune reports that Barack Obama's is pushing this week for greater transparency in his campaign as part of a plan to launch a head-on at...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama waited 16 months to attempt the exorcism. But when he finally sat down with the Tribune editorial board Friday, Obama offered a...
AP | David Jackson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — Presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that he got more political money from indicted Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko...
Daily Kos | First Amendment | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
The vetting of the Clinton's is just beginning. This was a risky strategy by the Clinton's in the first place, because the boomerang effect will expos...
Sun Times | Mark Brown | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
Even I'm a little leery of writing another Barack Obama-Tony Rezko column at this point. After Hillary Clinton's resurgence in Tuesday's primaries, t...
Chicago Tribune | Jeff Coen | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
Antoin "Tony" Rezko is set to go on trial Monday, but the defense is expected at every opportunity to try to put his chief accuser on trial as well. ...
NY Times | MIKE McINTIRE and CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics
Tony Rezko was obviously in trouble. He was a defendant in at least a dozen lawsuits, federal investigators in Chicago were poking around, and his nam...
Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
The name of Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama is likely to brush up against the impending federal corruption trial of Antoin "Tony" Re...
Bloomberg | Timothy Burger | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
The couple who sold Barack Obama his Chicago home said the Illinois senator's $1.65 million bid "was the best offer'' and they didn't cut their asking...
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, banked at least $7,500 in polit...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
Obama won't mention the name of the guy who made his rise to political prominence possible out loud, with the aid of a mostly negligent press.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign for President announced last week that it would give back $850,000 in donations bundled together by fugitive 'Hil...
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
From Media Matters: On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the...
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend. Now comes...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
PARIS — A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people...
The bottom-up political movement that Barack Obama has been so fervently encouraging may have come too...
Chicago Sun Times | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics