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Kevin Drum stepped into a firestorm the other day by suggesting that intelligence is a meaningful trait. He suggested two other issues related, but I’m going to primarily focus on that claim because it is at the core of the issue. One can’t continue to argue past that until one understand whether one disagrees that […]
Via Talk Left the Trib reports that Texas is killing people as fast as it can despite numerous examples of problems with Texas’s system. Jeralynn argues that there will be a movement towards a moratorium. I wish I had her optimism.
I think we have enough evidence for some reasonable suspicions as Talk Left points out the crackdown on people selling bongs. Bongs are a big concern? Bongs? Are you kidding me? Next he’ll go after sellers of Cheetos.
In a stunning motion, a coalition of lawyers involved in cases where John Burge is accused of torture are asking all Cook County judges to be disqualified (via TalkLeft. The argument is that too many of the judges have been involved as prosecutors in too many of these cases and an unavoidable conflict of interest […]
Congratulations Peter, you just made the President uneasy when he least needs it. Fitzgerald reported to the Daily Herald that the President said to him that he would order the assassination of Saddam Hussein if it were possible. This is, ahem, a bush league mistake. Let the President make foreign policy pronouncements, not the junior […]
Crain’s picks up the big question that Jesse Jackson Jr. and other supporters of Peotone refuse to answer, why not improve the third regional airport already in operation, that is a closer commute to downtown, covers the southern Chicago region well, and fits the size of the facility needed. Chicago doesn’t need another world class […]
He’d think he’d want a good street brawl followed by a good drink is my guess. Kass laments the lack of opposition in Chicago Politics. I’m not so sure. Certainly Harold would have wanted to see the corruption spotlighted–well as long as they weren’t his pals, but he started the path Chicago is on now […]
And I’m pretty damn sure one can go to Instapundit, USS Clueless and any other host of right wing sites and find really much worse arguments for war than Kevin’s….
It appears the left of the blogosphere is piling up on center-left Kevin Drum at CalPundit for his comments about the war. Essentially Kevin argues that pulling out now would be disastrous sending a signal to the region and specifically Saddam that he can get away with flouting the inspection regime. And Kevin is right. […]
Blagojevich all of a sudden seems to have been smacked over the head by someone and given the Senate Republicans haven’t been able to see him, it must have been Dan Hynes pointing out how close to not being able to pay some bills the state is. Today, Blago ordered a 10% across the board […]
Apparently the House is tired of taking the flak for it and are insisting it get out of the Senate before they bother. Profiles in courage!
The irony of making the Chicago schools relatively solvent is that when the next funding problems crept up, the suburbs and moderately funded downstate schools would be screaming for help from the state when it had been them screaming the loudest about Chicago. I hope those districts teach irony well
Isn’t it strange how all these leaks from Chicago US Attorneys and FBI people go to Kass? Perhaps Patrick ‘the quiet’ Fitzgerald handles his press contacts a bit differently than he portrays in his press conferences.
It appears that Outfit operators are getting nervous as a former Outfit member’s prison records are now unable to be located. Kass points out to those of us with a bit less of clue, this is probably due to entering the Witness Protection Program.