Archive for February, 2005
Posted in February 25th, 2005
I’m a bit under the weather–yes still. I need out of Saint Louis is the underlying problem, but IlPundit analyses the political maneuvering of the Administration and for those of us quite critical of them, he points out they are good at this game even when it seems like they are fumbling. I’m backed up […]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2005
Gingrich: “Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk about whether as a historian I can talk about how the Declaration of Independence was written, what Thomas Jefferson stands for, and whether it is good for American families to go on a walking tour of Washington to see historically the absolute fact […]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2005
From Cindy Richards: However, if Blagojevich insists on trying to squeeze school funding out of the already dry well of the state’s general fund, he may be remembered not as a fiscal conservative, but as a man who lacked the political will to finally fix things for kids. So, no mention of Jim Edgar’s lie […]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2005
I love that line: Reclaim democracy one pint at a time, as we speak up, stand up, and lift up our glasses at our weekly Democratic drinking club. 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 […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
Since I created NoLaHood.com in late January, we have received a tremendous outpouring of support from conservatives throughout Illinois and received several offers for donations and over a thousand hits in under two weeks time. I?m very pleased to report the interest in the site has far exceeded my expectations. There has been much speculation […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
Rhodes Scholars are behind the vast environmentalist conspiracy
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
The Leader, ever factually challenged, has screwed up again and this time at the expense of Modern Vertebrate. He can join in the long waiting line of corrections. Of course, I’m on Day 241 of the Leader Correction Watch Concerning Jill Stanek’s column that claimed the Jack Ryan divorce case was sealed since the divorce […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
IlPundit and IlliniPundit are having a discussion on media bias. For many who read ArchPundit, you know I come down as tending to think the media’s bias is more towards controversy and creating a storyline than to a particular ideology, though I’ll admit the underlying bias of reporters is towards being liberal compared to the […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
And makes a good point about how blogging will be reigned in eventually: You finally have a place where you can gas on until you faint. Sooner or later you will either develop a following or expire from lack of air. Maybe you can ascend to talk radio. Maybe you can disappear. Maybe you can […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
While The Blagorgeous is sure to oppose, so will most public transit riders….
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
If I thought he knew about me, I’d swear he’s trying to tweak me lately, Blagojevich vows to veto any income tax increase for education CHICAGO (AP) ? Gov. Rod Blagojevich has said he would veto any school-funding reforms if they included increasing income taxes because he’s not convinced raising income taxes would solve inequities […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
School officials in Wilmette have suspended students for a web site that was developed apparently away from school. I believe Eric Zorn has brought up this issue previously and it is one that concerns me as well. If the behavior did not involve school equipment in the creation of the site, the students should be […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
Negroponte is unlikely to support death squads in the US so he can probably do less harm here than in Iraq.
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
Obviously a favorite of political bloggers, Fox’s poorly promoted Arrested Development is on its last legs. The key would be to get HBO to pick it up (Rhodes needs to get it anyway). This almost happened with SportsNight and HBO needs to do something to makeup for giving George Clooney this much time to cover […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
What everyone seems to have missed is the Blagojevich starve the beast argument that is damn near reminiscent of Grover Norquist: “He said to me, ‘Well, don’t you want the revenue?’ And I said, ‘Frankly, no’,” Blagojevich said. “It’s going to get in the way of the kinds of things that we want to do. […]
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