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Posts tagged "Barack Obama"

Watch ABC-7 News' political reporter Charles Thomas on Web/Cable discuss Obama, the Economy, State employee pension problems, low income people and much more

This week’s Chicago Suburban edition of Public Affairs, featuring ABC-7′s Chief Political Reporter in Chicago, Charles Thomas, debating and discussing the key national, state and city political issues with show host Jeff Berkowitz airs tonight in 24 North and Northwest Chicago suburbs at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 19 or Cable Ch. 35  (See, below... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 1, 2012 at 8:55 pm
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Watch Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on Cable/Web: Obama, Gas Prices, School Choice, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations and oh, so much more.

Is the Illinois Policy Institute (liberty and free market based), reinvigorated in the last few years under the leadership of its CEO, John Tillman, now one of the two most influential public policy think tanks in Illinois? The answer has to be “Yes, it is.”  Major events hosted by the Illinois Policy Institute in the... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm
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Better than Sex: Berkowitz debates Illinois Policy Institute's Tillman on Obama, Gas Prices and School Choice, Web and Cable

Is President Obama responsible in large part or no part for gasoline costing $4.50 gallon? Is President Obama hypocritical for sending his kids to private school (30K/kid) and rejecting school vouchers-school choice for DC kids ($7500/kid) ? Can the Illinois 2012 tax hike be repealed, the state budget balanced and the 7 billion dollars in unpaid bills... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
April 9, 2012 at 8:28 pm
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Watch RCP’s Bevan explain on Cable/Web how Daniels, Christie or Bush may become the next President

Tom Bevan, Co-founder and Executive Editor of Realclearpolitics.com, seemed to hit the nail on the head when he taped our show, Public Affairs, last Sunday.  He said that Mitt Romney has about a 65% chance of winning the Republican Party Presidential nomination, with former PA Senator Santorum and former House Speaker Gingrich at about 10%... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
February 20, 2012 at 8:53 pm
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Five Easy Pieces: Five Republican tickets punched coming out of Iowa

No. 1, Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum [The hardest play of the Five Easy Pieces]. Former two-term U. S. Senator Rick Santorum was the big winner in last night’s Iowa Republican Party Presidential caucus.   He lost the top spot to Mitt Romney by 8 votes, with each candidate garnering 25% of the vote.  Santorum was able... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
January 4, 2012 at 11:55 am
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Five easy pieces: Five happy winners in last night’s Sioux City Presidential debate.

1.  Mitt Romney Mitt Romney was the big winner last night, almost as big a winner as Jack Nicholson, four decades ago. The former Massachusetts governor and son of the Michigan governor who said he was brainwashed about Vietnam has been running for the Presidency since 2006.  He seems to be hitting his stride. The... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
December 16, 2011 at 11:05 am
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Laura Washington goes toe to toe w/Berkowitz on Cable and the Web on high tech lynchings, helping minorities and Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Laura Washington [Chicago Sun-Times and ABC-7]: We’re talking thirty-forty years that this has been going on, and this has been happening in every community in the country.  Not just in Chicago.  We’ve had Republican Administrations; we’ve had Democratic Administrations over the last thirty-forty years. [Watch Washington v. Berkowitz  here]. Jeff Berkowitz:  Not in Chicago. Laura... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
December 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm
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Watch on cable and the web WBEZ's Wildeboer and Ex- Fed prosecutor Polales dissect, with Berkowitz, Rod Blagojevich's second trial.

Today’s City of Chicago edition  of Public Affairs features two consecutive episodes of the TV show, ”Public Affair with Jeff Berkowitz,” focusing on the federal Chicago retrial of former Illinois Governor, Congressman and State Rep. Rod Blagojevich.      The arrest, impeachment and conviction of Blagojevich, following on the heels of the arrest and conviction of  George Ryan.      ... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
June 18, 2011 at 3:19 pm
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Public Affairs-Blagojevich marathon on Cable and internet-- can Rod avoid more prison time?

Today’s Blago-Public Affairs marathon    Today’s Public Affairs-Rod Blagojevich marathon features four consecutive episodes of the TV show, ”Public Affair with Jeff Berkowitz,” focusing on the federal Chicago retrial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich,  54.  The case went to the jury (eleven women – including three minority jurors and one man) last Friday. The  jurors, after... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
June 17, 2011 at 1:37 pm
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The John Wyma-Rod Blagojevich relationship: A retrial winning argument for Blago?

John Wyma, now portrayed as a D. C.  lobbyist, perhaps knew Rod Blagojevich as well as anybody as Blagojevich rose in political power and Wyma became wealthy from that connection.  After working and socializing with Rod and profiting from his relationship with him all those years, Wyma decided to cooperate with the Feds.  But, did... Read more »
By Jeff Berkowitz,
May 15, 2011 at 6:10 pm
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