Illinois, From the Colder Prairie Now
John Pavich Biographical Sketch Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, John Pavich accepted a post with the Central Intelligence Agency, specializing in counterterrorism. He felt an obligation to serve his country and to give back to the country that had given him so much. As an intelligence officer in the CIA?s Directorate of Operations […]
The earlier news on his large donations to his church and related non-profits go hand-in-hand with this bit of idiocy he shares with Guitierrez: Two Chicago Democrats, Reps. Bobby Rush and Luis Gutierrez, did not file any trip records since 2000 with the clerk of the U.S. House. After being contacted by the Tribune, their […]
Bill Clinton pulled it off because he was so damn likeable–G-Rod is good, but he’s not good enough to pull off these stunts: Late to a ceremony honoring fallen police Late to an opening of a Pipefitter training center
Aaron Chambers identifies Madigan’s principles for a budget: SPECIFICALLY, HE SAID his team would not use borrowed money to cover the state’s operations, would not spend more money than the state collects and would not engage in balloon financing — a type of borrowing championed by Blagojevich that involves putting off principal payments for several […]
Rich Miller’s weekly column has some fascinating info. I had low expectations for Lisa Madigan going in, and she has surpassed every expectation I would have had if I had high expectations when she was elected. It appears that she’s on the radar of the US Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove because they fear […]
Charles Taylor writes in: I couldn’t help reading your story about the bailiff who was confused with the Dictator of Liberia, Charles Taylor. My interest in your story was two fold. First, the hell that he went through to prove he wasn’t the Dictator and second, the hell he is still going through to make […]
Looks like Denny did something right. From the National Coalition for History On 28 April 2005, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) filled the decade vacant post of “Historian of the House of Representatives” and announced the appointment of University of Illinois at Chicago historian Robert V. Remini to serve in that position. In making the […]
Take Bobby Rush’s entanglement of campaign finances, family employment and social service and religious organizations, and Bobby Rush is essentially taking money into his campaign fund and paying it out to organizations that provide significant benefits to members of his family and supporters. In Rush’s defense, the organizations do good work, but why do the […]
Blagojevich gets credit for ending the IPAMs contract and starting to take this seriously, but the entire idea of fighting Holland was stupid. Rich Miller said this: Whoever came up with the “let’s fight Holland” strategy ought to be fired for rank incompetence. And we know who authorized looking into the Auditor’s operations because he […]
LOL–a new blog Illinois Shadow has the goods on Rummie’s chair. BTW, obviously I’ve been updating the blogroll, but the full update isn’t up yet–I have the second page done, but not added and it’ll be a bit more comprehensive of active Illinois political blogs and include some non-political, but interesting other blogs. The blogroll […]
Peter O’Malley has his web site up and running I’ll have some more on Peter in the next few days. For those wanting to ask Christine Cegelis questions for a video interview, go here I currently have a fundraising link up for Christine and may add one for Peter. While I do endorse in primaries […]
Aaron Chambers asks the question that seems to get a response of non sequiturs from the Blagojevich Administration. Notwithstanding, I did my best to take seriously the agency’s pleas that I consider mounds of paper it called evidence of savings. On Wednesday, the day after the audit was published, three top agency officials led me […]
While I disagree with Cardinal George (hence I’m a Protestant), I have to say his style is refreshing compared to Archbishop Burke of St. Louis. The problem with what he said: “I don’t think that what is as morally questionable as creating embryos to destroy them for scientific purposes should be funded by public money,” […]
Why won’t Daley ever retire: A colleague and I were speculating whether Daley would decline to run for another term, or even resign, should the scandal reach the 5th Floor of City Hall. “He’ll never quit,” I said. “They’ll carry him out. He’s a machine designed to be mayor of Chicago. What else is he […]