Courting Hispanics…In Bloomington
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It is not a joke. Well it is, but it isn’t.
2003
A Perfect Vignette of the Ryan Years
In pleading not guilty, Arthur Swanson gives us an insight into how politics has long been done in Illinois
Swanson, 77, joked with a reporter about being out of cigars as he arrived at court, promising to bring one for his next appearance.
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And Mayer’s lobbying division was involved. Perfect.
Fat Kids
I was one of them. But the Sun-Times misses an important thing Illinois does right–Physical Education every day, every semester. I think there is still an exception for a Health and Driver’s Ed class, but I think those count.
While many PE classes aren’t that useful, they can be an essential tool to teaching exercise and health to kids and a good teacher can even motivate kids to enjoy exercise. As I grew older and tired of being slow and huge, I worked out on my own, but later PE classes certainly reinforced those habits.
We won’t talk about the last two years…
Kass is Pretty Much Right,
But Brown was more right. He didn’t go on O’Reilly. Kass takes on Jackson Sr. for selling out. Ironically, he didn’t sell out to Harold Washington. Why not? Harold kicked his butt out of Chicago. Under Harold, Sr. would have been better taking a job as the toll collector.
Private Peotone?
The Peotone saga becomes a bit stranger with proponents seeking private financing for the airport.
So no airlines are going to buy in? Yeah. Sure.
Peotone may not be a bad third or fourth airport site. First, Gary should be examined for what extra capacity it can handle and then Peotone will probably be necessary to relieve growing traffic at O’Hare and Midway, both of which will be full not long after the O’Hare expansion. The fifth part of the plan should be exploiting Rockford for freight flights.
The sixth part of the solution is a downstate airport between the five main towns in Central Illinois. Currently, all five operate their own airports. And for small personal aircraft that works. But each city (except Decatur) have a growing desire for easy air travel. A centralized airport would provide significantly more options for the consumers in the area and bring down the high costs associated with only small commuter flights. The problem is that the Congressman from each city don’t want such a plan because civic leaders view even a small airport as a point of pride.
Seventh, is high speed rail to reduce the number of short flights. George Will has written a fair amount on that. But part of the initial deal includes Missouri and Missouri isn’t going to pay.
Joe Conason On the Radio/Internet @ 2 PM
Joe Conason will be on a local St. Louis Radio Station WGNU @ 2 PM today. For a hoot tune in @1 for Dr. Pat–sort of a manic Dr. Laura. You can listen in on-line. He’ll be talking about his new book
Democratic Roll Call
Given the posts today, I thought I’d start a second thread for comments on the Democratic Field.
Also,
Miller’s two articles on the primary fields,
The Dems\
Thanks to Jeff, it was easy tracking them down again
Updated Blogroll
To the Left you’ll notice some new links,
Most importantly,
Greg Easterbrook probably my favorite environmental writer and a man of incredible Breadth has started a blog at The New Republic. He writes Tuesday Morning Quarterback at ESPN.com, and a column at Beliefnet (which appears to be dormant) as well as his normal work at TNR and Atlantic Monthly.
The post that stuck out was his post concerning the ignoring of Bob Riley’s motivation for calling for a tax increase. Greg argues it is due to anti-Christian bias in the media. I’m not so sure. I think the media is very uncomfortable with reporting religious matters unless it is salacious—pretty much like most stories. Religion isn’t purposely ignored, but it does not usually fit into a neat soundbite.
To make matters worse, no matter what they report, the media is blasted for it.
Other additions (some are recent),
TNR Primary
Open Source Politics
Drug War Rant
The Right Christians
Real Live Preacher
Musclehead
Pacific View
MC Master Chef
The Left Coaster
And at the bottom of the page, the expanded blog roll
Tyler Goes to Phonak
After a stunning Tour de France, Tyler Hamilton is going to Phonak Cycling Team
And now, some of you may be scratching your head asking why I would leave the comfort of CSC to go to Phonak. And the answer why, is almost the same as when I left the U.S. Postal Service. They have offered me the opportunity to challenge myself on a new level. Phonak is an up and coming team that has been growing little by little each year. Next year, they are serious about wanting to compete in the Tour de France for the first time. They have restructured their entire team around this goal, and they have asked me to be their leader. It’s every rider’s dream to have this kind of support and this kind of opportunity. The Phonak roster is being overhauled with the Tour de France as the central focus. You may not recognize all the names at first, but there are some strong guys coming on board who will lend big talent in the mountains and in events like the team time trial. And they are all signing on with a clear understanding and motivation toward the team’s vision for next season.
Who was the last American to go to a mediocre team and lead it to victory?
Okay, so Tyler’s a bit older.
In other cycling news, Fred Rodriguez came in 4th today and two Postal Riders are in the top 5 overall:
1 Isidro Nozal (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 33.57.41
2 Igor Gonzalez De Galdeano (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Eroski 1.48
3 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 2.01
4 Dario Frigo (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.05
5 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 3.28
What’s interesting is that the 19th stage includes two tough climbs and then a time trial. This race should be close to the end and Postal has two climbers near the top.
Lotta Clusterf&%#ing
Instead of trying to catch everyone up on John Lott’s latest nonsense myself, Kevin Drum has nicely summarized the more recent developments in Tim Lamberts’ righteous crusade to unmask Lott’s prevarications.
The simple question to Lott is why did he stop correcting for clustering in the observations. Hear the silence?