Archive for January, 2003
Posted in January 24th, 2003
In the interest of promoting discussion, let me point out Bill Hobbs site that is the center of the ongoing discussion concerning controlling spending and a Taxpayer Bill of Rights. He has some interesting stuff and points out that Colorado has managed its spending limits pretty well (IIRC they have a slight surplus this year?). […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
The details concerning the alleged plot to kill a federal judge came out during Court yesterday. While Hale clearly wanted the Judge killed, he was pretty cagey in the language so far. This does not appear to be an open and shut case.
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
Funny thing about legal agreements is that the other party expects you to uphold them. Yesterday, the SLPS and VICC sued the State of Misery for not living up to the obligations of the Desegregation Settlement. Accounting tricks are nice, but they don’t actually solve public policy problems. In this case there is an legal […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2003
Kieran Healy responds to Kevin Drum’s question regarding whether Lott’s results could have happened. Kieran is correct in that weighting could plausibly have created the results. If one weights the respondents, all sorts of oddities can arise in the total numbers and with only two firing a gun as a DGU, then wacky results aren’t […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
Over at Crain’s. Nothing surprising, but it isn’t pretty.
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
In addition to Dick Cunningham, there are many other good people in Illinois fighting the good fight, Talk Left discusses Thomas Breen, a former Chicago Prosecutor who is seeking the release of two men he convicted.
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
The day that George Ryan commuted the death sentences of all Illinois death row prisoners, Lawrence Marshall mentioned a man in his introductory remarks that few are familiar with. That man was Dick Cunningham, an attorney formerly in Illinois’ State Appellate Defender’s Office. Marshall said of Cunningham: Where would we be today without the scores […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
Calpundit and South Knox Bubba are discussing state constitutional limits on spending. As always, the devil is in the details, but here in Misery, this has been pretty much a disaster. While it limits profligate spending, it also makes it really hard to deal with budget cycles. If Misery had been able to bank some […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
He has the utmost confidence that hostilities will begin by the 1st. I’m actually trying to get someone elso to go there so I can get the Readers’ Digest version instead of having to wade through his prose and see how he explains being wrong.
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
A promising new blog came to my attention: Center Point. He has some parodies of James Taranto that are pretty good. It looks like he still has some work to do on converting his site from the template he took from Josh Marshall though. Whenever the hell I get around to updating the blogroll, he’ll […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
A promising new blog came to my attention: Center Point. He has some parodies of James Taranto that are pretty good. It looks like he still has some work to do on converting his site from the template he took from Josh Marshall though.
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
The most recent Joyce Morrison tract is up and it lives up to her reputation. Written to an anonymous Mr. Greenshoes it has one funny bit about hemp shoes, but otherwise descends into paranoia and rather bizarre stereotypes. Other than amusement, this may seem pointless, but let me point out who she is affiliated with: […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
The County Board in DuPage County changed its position regarding O’Hare Expansion and drew the wrath of Pate Philip. This is indicative of a lot of changes taking place in the DuPage GOP currently (and the subject of my next post on Political State Report), but it is interesting that the spat comes as Daley […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
Michael Sneed captures a couple interesting tidbits today: Dershowitz may file a brief on behalf of Betty Loren-Maltese to keep her original incarceration date. Two, is too rich to paraphrase: Rumor is Jerry Clarke, a former top aide to the beleaguered House Minority Leader Lee Daniels, is in line to run the re-election campaign of […]
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Posted in January 23rd, 2003
Kevin Drum tries to understand John Lott’s weighting of responses in the 1997 survey. Kevin is not trusting his internal bullshit detectors–actually they may have malfunctioned from an overload. Overall, the survey is large enough to produce decent results, but one must remember that focusing on respondents within the sample reduces the sample size one […]
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