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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Girl, 2, critical after TV falls on South Side | VIDEO A 2-year-old girl is hospitalized in critical condition after a 29-inch TV fell on top of her, the second such incident this week. Wrong-way LSD driver causes South Loop crash | VIDEO Three people were injured, one of them critically, when an $80,000 sports car crashed on Lake Shore Drive at Roosevelt while going the wrong way. 2 killed in South Side hit-and-run | VIDEO Two people were killed in a hit-and-run crash on Chicago's South Side around 2:45 a.m. Thursday at 95th and Cottage Grove. Chicago settles with war protesters for $6M Attorneys representing the City of Chicago told a federal judge Thursday they have reached a settlement with nearly 700 people detained by police during a raucous 2003 anti-war protest. Semis collide on Tri-State in Lake Co. | VIDEO Two semis were involved in a crash early Thursday morning on the Tri-State Tollway. Students, driver hurt in Zion bus crash | VIDEO A school bus carrying grade school students rear ended a garbage truck in north suburban Zion Thursday morning. MORE STORIES Strange News Butterfingers stunt tweaks Patriots' dropped pass Wis. judge upholds ruling on dispute over cat Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark Ex-CA mayor admits stealing mixer to make pizza Judge: Buy wife flowers, then take her to dinner Consumer Costco tops Consumer Reports survey Tassimo coffee makers recalled over burn risk General Motors SUV has new air bag Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox Wal-Mart introduces 'good for you' label Healthbeat Electrical impulses may help with Alzheimer's Report: Trans fat levels dropping in Americans Teen pregnancy, abortion rates drop to record low Ulcer drugs may have unwanted side effects Spanking may lead to slower development, mental issues MOST POPULAR Wrong-way LSD driver causes South Loop crash Teen defends city sticker design Alyssa Bustamante gets life, apologizes for murder Girl, 2, critical after TV falls on South Side 1 killed, 2 critically hurt in SW Side crash All Most Popular

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Thursday, February 9, 2012 Mortgage Settlement Payout Does Not Begin to Cover Costs, Pain BUSINESS Greek Leaders Bailout Deal To Satisfy Lenders POLITICS House Passes Weakened Insider Trading Bill POLITICS Presidential Candidates, Conservative Leaders Hit Washington TECHNOLOGY Facebook Discloses Mark Zuckerberg's Big Bonus POLITICS WATCH: JFK Intern Discusses Sordid Details Of Affair BLOG POSTS Robert Scheer: Elections Are for Suckers Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year's presidential election, whose outcome will turn on which party's Super PACs gets the most generous bribes from billionaires? Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Obama Administration's Syrian Double Standard If the Obama administration continues on its present course and does not confront the Russian-Syrian arms transfers with tougher resolve, it won't be merely "leading from behind"; it will be turning its back on the growing humanitarian catastrophe. Barbara Becker: The Swastika in Our Neighborhood While walking with my 8-year-old son near our home in Manhattan, he spotted a purple swastika scrawled across a billboard advertisement. As I took in the complexities of the situation, my son uttered words that made my heart break. Hilary Rosen: Have We Really Come Down to a Boys Against the Girls Fight? This public debate on whether or not the Obama administration's sensible policy on covering birth control has turned into a boys against the girls fight. And the boys are out of touch and out of line. Menachem Rosensaft: Holocaust Torah Scrolls Scam: Demanding Accountability It remains to be seen whether Zitelman and others at Save a Torah who kept their heads in the sand long after evidence of Youlus's fraudulent scheme had become incontrovertible will ever offer a public apology for their role in this abomination.

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Thursday, February 09, 2012

The Big Story, By E.J. Dionne What Do Rick Santorum And Clint Eastwood Have In Common? Sorry Rick, you haven't made it yet as an Eastwood-style make-my-day cultural icon. But in different ways, Santorum and Eastwood have demonstrated the limits of both an entirely negative slant on politics and a pessimistic take on America's future. READ MORE

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Featured Column: David Cay Johnston How Romney Would Tax The Rest Of Us With so much attention placed on Mitt Romney's verbal blunders, much less has been given to his written plans for the economy and taxes. Romney would make the Bush tax cuts permanent. But that's only a first step. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Connie Schultz Funny Man, Karl Rove By now, most of you have seen Clint Eastwood's Chrysler ad, if not during its Super Bowl debut then on any number of news and cable shows or on the Web. It's getting a lot of free play because Republican strategist Karl Rove has complained that it was a partisan pitch for President Barack Obama. The thing is that Rove wasn't just picking a fight with Eastwood; he was taking on every American who saw his or her own story in that two-minute ad. READ MORE

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Election 2012 Romney Barely Outpacing 2008 Vote Totals In the past four years, Romney has essentially been running for president non-stop. So what has four years of campaigning and tens of millions of dollars spent by his campaign and friendly Super PACs gotten him? About 100 extra votes per day, so far. according to our calculations. READ MORE

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Housing Mortgage Settlement Near As N.Y., California Sign On New York and California have agreed to sign the proposed settlement between U.S. states and the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses, according to a source close to the negotiations, making a deal a near certainty. READ MORE

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Today In Stupid Sean Hannity: Obama Didn't Actually Want To Kill Bin Laden [VIDEO] Last night on Fox News, conservative pundit Sean Hannity claimed that President Obama did not actually want to kill Osama bin Laden -- and Hannity claims that he can prove it on tape. READ MORE

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