Vince Demuzio of Carlinville passed today. He was the longest currently serving Senator.
Illinois, From the Colder Prairie Now
Vince Demuzio of Carlinville passed today. He was the longest currently serving Senator.
Thank goodness Jeff puts up a summary, because his transcripts are long–though very useful. He has a great interview with Patrick O’Malley–my favorite Republican because if he were to win the gubernatorial nomination he could guarantee Democratic control for years (joking see below about party competitiveness being a good thing. Two things stand out–O’Malley is […]
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via Oneman: Leader Message Board takes up Confederate Heritage My take on it–if the Southern States want their flags back we’ll have ’em across the highway from Comisky. Come and get ’em. Note to Oneman–having grown up in Normal, little Jacob would have been taken around to Lincoln sites until he got it. The South […]
From the Capitol Fax: QUOTE OF THE WEEK ”We never really say anything negative about our opponents, we’ll keep that throughout the general. I think voters want that. They want to hear about what issues you care about. How you want to change America and Illinois for the better. They don’t want to hear negative […]
A site I check in on every once in a while is Russ Stewart’s. He does a weekly column on Chicago/Illinois politics–not quite a blog, not quite a regular news column. But one that caught my attention (and was mentioned in comments) was his column on the Obama/Ryan race. The key graphs to me reflect […]
The Join Cross Site is pushing Tom Cross’ plan to deal with medical liability which in at least Metro East is out of control. Madison is a judicial hell hole and I’m generally not much for the overstatements on both sides in tort reform. The challenge for reasonable tort reform is to create a situation […]
back to the grind. And by the way–donate to Obama–to the right. While I might have a new advertiser in the next couple days there are three slots open and another about to open up. From here on out I’ll be rotating the slots daily so they go from top to bottom moving one slot […]
Matt Hale will be joining the incarcerated for a long, long time. And that is undoubtedly a good thing.
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The Wire has taken over from Homicide LoTS as the Best Damn Show on Television and it appears to be ready to get better as David Simon indicates he has hired some of the best noir writers out there for Season 3. No word on the premiere.
“The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’ That’s too bad. They’ve been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism […]
A little slow here as I regain my composure from a long weekend. Most of it is off the record, so I won’t go into details, but it entailed me drinking like I was 22 again and the body isn’t happy about it. I was going to give a few people a call if I […]
Contribute to Obama at the right. Justin has paid for that ad out of his own hard earned money, let’s make sure he gets bang for the buck! Or as the campaign is putting it. let’s turn Illinois Obama Blue! Obama-Ryan by the numbers: Illinois^^^ Post-Primary Report 2/26/04-3/31/04 1stQ 1stQ 1stQ Cash Raised Receipts Spent […]
Well those results make it easy. Looking at the other Democrats challenging no one is putting up even moderately respectable numbers. Want to donate? Give to Bean or to Renner. I’d like to say donate to Bagwell, but we have no filing. We have to conserve money and Bean should be a top priorty with […]