Archive for February, 2004
Posted in February 19th, 2004
Holy Cow! Daley is certainly not his father, but damn, this mornings Sun-Times reports on his support for gay marriage, but also his support for a possible San Francisco style protest with Cook County marrying gays and lesbians. "They’re your doctors, your lawyers, your journalists, your politicians," the mayor said. "They’re someone’s son or daughter. […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2004
Don’t Screw It Up Hendry Trib runs the Season Preview today too
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Posted in February 18th, 2004
From American Institute of Biological Sciences The administration’s fiscal year 2005 budget request includes a 17.9 percent cut to the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate. Overall, the directorate would lose $167.62 million, putting the FY 2005 total request for the directorate at $771.36 million. The majority of this cut (-$139.17 million) […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
No change. Scroll Down. I have more important things to do. Poi Dog Pondering to be exact.
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
1) Hull takes the one spot. Ahead in the numbers. Ahead in money. Ahead in future ad buys. One wild card is whether the press takes an interest in his background or not. Reportedly already has slick anti-attack ads to counter any other candidates. Importantly, they don’t name others and they focus on Hull’s positive […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
The Lockhorns are just a worn out stereotype of men and women from the 1950s. Zorn probably likes Prince Valiant too… But really, I think I offer a story of hope. Despite all evidence of past strips, I continue to read the Lockhorns, hoping they will finally amuse me. This is in contrast to Cathy […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
(ICFST==Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team===Illinois Republicans) Rich Miller points out their most recent hijinks
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
When he advocated the Metric System< Winning a close race is more than a matter of feet and inches. Just ask Howard Dean, who, during a question-and-answer session at a Spokane, Wash., rally, endorsed pushing Americans to embrace the metric system. "We are attached to feet and so forth," Dean said. "I’m a doctor. I […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
over at Eric Zorn’s. Can you beat a current St. Louisan who only lived in the burbs for about a year? 103–I missed some of the media questions. I’m never good at media questions. I aced the politics, of course. Also, scroll down and notice the snarky comment about the Lockhorns. I’m a fan of […]
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Posted in February 17th, 2004
On February 13th, Rich Miller published a full run-down on the Survey USA in the Capitol Fax (sorry, but you have to subscribe to the actual fax for this one–see site for how). The gist of the story is that not only is Blair Hull taking a lead, but he is doing it in almost […]
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Posted in February 16th, 2004
Cubs increase their offer to Greg Maddux For those of you who aren’t baseball fans, this will be a painful blog from now until the end of the World Series. (Peoria Pundit linked to it first)
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Posted in February 13th, 2004
Every Presidency does it, but really now, shouldn’t they learn that stonewalling only makes you look like you have something to hide? Even if there is an explanation you look like it is bad. Josh Marshall reprints Scott McClellan’s Who’s On First performance Here is the way to make the issue go away–release the records […]
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Posted in February 13th, 2004
in the Republican Roll Call. No one even seemed to notice. I think that makes the point.
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Posted in February 13th, 2004
I’m hearing (nice passive way to avoid who the source is) that the internal polling for Hull is even better. Now, all internal leaks should be treated skeptically. That said, there is a back story why those polls might not be the normal push polling. Hull is a stats geek and we (the statgeeks of […]
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