Archive for February, 2005
Posted in February 18th, 2005
Her column is one of the best hardhitting political columns in town. Certainly there is some overlap with Kass, but can a paper really have too many good local columnists? The challenger in this race is Larry Dominick. At 57, he too has found opportunity in Cicero. Thirty-four years ago he began his work for […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
Exactly because it isn’t a meta-column about other columnists… First, he covers the silliness of the war on pot for dying people First person who can answer why it is bad for a dying person to smoke marijuana gets a big no prize. Addiction seems a bit pointless given the circumstances. He covers the Maya […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2005
They put me on a nebulizer for some tests and I essentially hyperventilated because my lungs were working well beforehand. Look for stuff over the weekend while I catch up.
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
When you are challenging an incumbent in your own party, errr…you might find a motivating factor other than someone who was probably killed by friendly fire. You might also just use one web address appropriate to the office you are running for instead of a bunch that make it look like you’ll run for anything. […]
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
Serious question–good for them if they don’t, but it’s a bit hard to take The Blagorgeous to task if they are taking it too.
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
Tom Friedman: Democrats do not favor using military force against Iran’s nuclear program or to compel regime change there. September 25th, 2004 Chicago Tribune Obama would consider missile strikes on Iran
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
Lord knows it could only improve the White House Press Corps right now. Given this guy’s extracurriculars who is next in the briefing room? The Hedgehog? (front page is clean, but I imagine there might be some office systems that track this one)
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
Property Rights are threatened so attend meetings. Because, you know, meetings help a lot.
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Posted in February 10th, 2005
I know, it’s like a glowing press release, but he’s done a good job keeping on top of the issue and encouraging the students. For an update on the case, go here. \ I’m jealous of the students because they got to meet John Lewis (D-Georgia), a former Freedom Rider.
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Posted in February 8th, 2005
Via Drum Fun with creationists at the National Review. I bet they get a lot of mail on that one and Derbyshire loses it responding. The notion of the ID-ers, that you can find Him by staring hard at the gaps in our current scientific understanding, seems to me to be a sort of comic-book […]
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Posted in February 8th, 2005
Dan Johnson-Weinberger has been pushing for this bill and it gets signed. Congrats to Dan–this is a good government bill that shouldn’t have been controversial.
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Posted in February 8th, 2005
Joe Birkett is thinking of running for Governor. He’s very, very good to me. Anyone with that much of a sourpuss personality in font of a camera only makes this more fun. First, we start with his handling of the Nicarico murder case. Eric Zorn will be happy for a Birkett candidacy because it’ll let […]
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Posted in February 8th, 2005
Zorn points out that the debate over Social Security is more than one of accounting, but also one of values. The problem is the Bush Administration is selling the idea as being just as secure and so opponents feel the need to point out it isn’t and demonstrate exactly why it isn’t, but I think […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
From comments, more on the Proft/Pascoe brain trust in naming themselves after a character on House of Cards (which I have not seen) Choosing the name “Urquhart” is interesting. In the first of the series, “House of Cards,” Francis Urquhart ends up murdering a young journalist, Mattie Storin, with whom he had an affair. Throughout […]
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Posted in February 7th, 2005
LOL—don’t say I didn’t warn you Eric, but somebody is going to be spending a lot of time policing those. Look at Miller’s comments if you need a hint. Mine get some problems, but generally, not being a big media outlet of any sort, I avoid the worst. The Trib is to trolls what light […]
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