Archive for April, 2003
Posted in April 18th, 2003
Hispanic Lege Members are divided over a bill to impose oversight over Cicero’s finances. The question asked by an opponent who sees it as a slap at Hispanics is: ”Why isn’t Chicago being picked on?" Aguilar asked. "When I go to Mexico and I mention Chicago, they ask me, ‘Where’s your machinegun?’ ” The irony […]
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Posted in April 18th, 2003
The federal government lifted the airspace restrictions over downtown Chicago, thus reigniting the war of words over Meigs Field closure. While I support closing Meigs, I would have preferred it not be done in the middle of the night and for the Mayor to simply say because it is more valuable as park land. The […]
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Posted in April 17th, 2003
Via Unlearned Hand Powell indicates that the US role in the Allende Coup was ‘not a part of American history that we’re proud of‘. This is a gaffe by Michael Kinsley’s standards because it is an example of a politician telling the truth. The State Department ‘put distance’ between the Secretary and the Department. In […]
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Posted in April 17th, 2003
Horowitz is up to his schtick over at Right Wing News Eric Alterman is a charlatan and a fool and the media is obviously left-wing. I can tell you that personally because there is nobody really that I could call at the LA Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and […]
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Posted in April 17th, 2003
So I’ve been wondering, now that we are getting some preliminary information from the Columbia panel can anyone tell me how Congress in an unindicted co-conspirator? I’m happy to criticize Congress on how it funds NASA, and the lack of a coherent space policy, but no change in policy would have removed the shuttle fleet […]
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Posted in April 17th, 2003
But Smith added: "The timing for the president’s visit couldn’t be worse. On Friday, 238 of my members are getting laid off . . . because of lack of work."
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Posted in April 17th, 2003
The Emerging Democratic Majority The resistance to a larger tax cut by two Republican senators, Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and George V. Voinovich of Ohio, was what caused the budget to be constructed the way it was in the first place, with one tax cut number for the Senate and another for the House. […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2003
Atrios points out the utter vapidness of Kyra Phillips. It is one thing to schill for the right wing, but is it really that hard for one to understand that a kid who just lost his family and his arms is angry and against war? One can, and I do argue, that the war was […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2003
Was proving the war could be done with fewer troops really worth losing civilization’s history? War is unpredictable. We all understand that. However, why weren’t more troops allocated to protecting such sites? Looters aren’t hard to deter so adding cultural sites and maybe even a few hospitals wouldn’t be that hard. As for the whining […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2003
Coming soon: Mullets and And Blood Night At YOUR COMISKEY PARK!
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Posted in April 15th, 2003
Jim Edgar is expressing interest in Peter Fitzgerald’s Senate Seat. ?Jim Edgar is the party?s 500-pound gorilla,? with the capacity to preempt the field and avoid a bruising primary, said one source who has spoken with him. Though Mr. Edgar previously toyed with, and ultimately dismissed, becoming GOP party chairman or even governor again, this […]
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Posted in April 15th, 2003
Tim Lambert updates the most recent issues concerning Lott and Reynolds. Lott should have lost all credibility by this point, but what is strange is that Reynolds seems okay getting caught up in Lott’s little games. If Lott was the source for the first article: of them have reputations as being antigun. Steven Levitt, has […]
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Posted in April 15th, 2003
Check it out at the Political State Report Short Handicapping: Jim Ryan is recruited by Rove and Rove tries to clear the field Patrick O’Malley enters the race and creates one of the most divisive primaries ever, beating his last primary challenge to Ryan. Ryan wins, conservatives stay home in the general.
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Posted in April 14th, 2003
Pile on Instapundit. I hadn’t looked at Tim Lambert’s page for a couple weeks–you know the war or something. Anyway, Tim continues a fantastic job on covering Lott’s work. Tim summarizes what appears to be Reynolds contributing to Lott’s efforts to argue the politics and not the merits of his work. It certainly seems that […]
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Posted in April 14th, 2003
Tom Tomorrow expresses his feelings about Jeb Bush for President in 2008. From my point-of-view, Tomorrow is kinda wishy-washy…
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