Archive for January, 2005
Posted in January 24th, 2005
I have a radio appearance at 7 PM CST tonight and I’m refreshing my tank on what I need to know. For those interested in school reforms discusssions, I’ll be on KDHX’s Collateral Damage on 88.1 in the Saint Louis area or at kdhx.org. The other guest is Peter Downs who is a critic of […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2005
Pete Giangreco left a comment the other day about Donnie Fowler: Take a close look at my friend Donnie Fowler for DNC chair. Here’s a guy is been on both ends. He was grassroots before grassroots was cool — worked in 14 states including state director for Kerry in Michigan. He’s also done the national […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2005
Da Speaker nor any staff will be charged in an investigation that investigated claims that staff did political work on state time. While Madigan is aggressive in using statehouse employees for constituent work, from everything I have heard he has a sharp line that is not to be crossed in terms of political work. There’s […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2005
ith a bitter chill in the air, What way to better warm spirits Than good friends, good beer, And a little Progressive banter? Drinking Liberally Chicago Promoting democracy one pint at a time Each and Every Wednesday Night @ 8:30 pm The Red Lion, 2446 N Lincoln, 2nd Floor Just around the corner from the […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2005
ople’s Inaugural Info: If you didn’t get tickets to the Bush inaugural ’cause: a) you’re not a billionaire who has exported thousands of jobs overseas; b) you’ve struggled to pay your bills, find a job, buy your medicine, orput your kids through school; c) don’t have a fortune invested on Wall Street or within the […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2005
In an article on using the Q’ran to evangelize to Muslims this quote shows up: A Messianic Muslim is an Islamist who has accepted Jesus but refuses to be referred to as a Christian and chooses to stay within the Arab community. Lots of Arabs in Michigan would find the above a strange sentence. In […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
The Copy Guy from SNL is in my head, What can I say.
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
Kevin McCullough will be up for another month in a day or two. When you visit, feel free to disagree, but be polite. Kevin and I have little in common, but it’s always fun to read the ‘other’ side. And then say why they are wrong–but politely people. And Bill Dennis has decided I need […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
Drop your questions for folks there or any information you’d like to hear about in comments. MyDD and Driving Votes have gotten me credentialed for the meeting. I’m unclear where eveything will appear, but expect to at least find links to it from here. I’ll be at Dean’s event this evening as well. Or if […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
And I haven’t been able to sum up why it is such bad news for Blagojevich until I read Carol Marin who gets to a big point at the end: Even today’s reality TV junkies who feast on the sorrows of others, even hard-hearted cynical politicos, don’t want to learn that the governor’s wife and […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
Not so cool with it unless it’s an ad or disclosed, but Markos disclosed so I’m unclear on what the controversy is. I think it’s a bit naive to think that reporters and bloggers aren’t the targets of attempted influence through different means. Disclosure of money for services should be the standard and I have […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
Capitol Fax is all over it, but make sure to stop by and vote: It’s silly and stupid, but annoying the Leader folks is all in good fun.
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
I don’t have a favorite yet, though I am going to Howard Dean’s event tomorrow night here in St. Louis. I lean toward Rosenberg or Dean. I’m strongly against Roemer who would be a disaster all around. Not even because his positions are more conservative, but because he seems to have little idea of how […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
Couldn’t you find someone better than Armstrong Williams? I mean, if you are going to misuse my tax dollars couldn’t you do it effectively?
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Posted in January 14th, 2005
See, Barry heard of me through a friend of mine from college. Brad teaches with Barry and Brad and I both went to Nicaragua in 1991 for a short, but incredibly packed trip meeting with the coalition government at the time and the opposition Sandinistas. Brad then went on to teach high school in Latin […]
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