Archive for January, 2007
Posted in January 30th, 2007
Is calling for a withdrawal from Iraq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDqNcOT1MTA Essentially it’s very similar to what he proposed in 2005 and even closer to 2006 with a couple notable differences. First, it doesn’t allow combat troops to remain in the north as he previously would have allowed–and something a President should have flexibility for in a perfect […]
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Posted in January 30th, 2007
Peter LaBarbera I’m sure Petey will be a repeat winner and it’s somewhat surprising it took him this long: The website eMarketer.com reports a recent Harris Interactive online survey of 2,500 adults (18 or older) shows more proportionate weekly use of the sites Friendster and MySpace, and more hourly time on YouTube and Craigslist. At […]
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Posted in January 29th, 2007
Jeebus, based on a study over six months and only looking at sales, Blagorgeous overturns HB 4050 which required risky buyers to attend financial counseling. Lenders who complained to me about the bill claimed they made it possible for people to get loans whose credit rating made it impossible for them to get loans from […]
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Posted in January 29th, 2007
Either Way Ald. Arenda Troutman (20th) said today she doesn’t use drugs and is “betting my life” that the white powdery substance found in her home was not narcotics, but a dietary fiber she uses to clean her bowels four times a year to prevent colon cancer.
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Posted in January 29th, 2007
Krugman ran an article last week suggesting that Obama’s discussion of partisanship isn’t helpful: But he then went on to say that partisanship is why “we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that’s what we have to change first.” Um, no. If history is any guide, what we need are political leaders […]
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Posted in January 26th, 2007
He gets in on the Halfrican label. Wouldn’t you think people would be embarrassed by miscegenation jokes by now?
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Posted in January 26th, 2007
Tom Roeser is making a good case for people who think he has lost his faculties. A few days ago, Roeser insisted This is the first occasion in modern times when matters of a personal biographical nature have been responded to-not by the candidate nor his official surrogates-but by unofficial media sources. John Kennedy was […]
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Posted in January 25th, 2007
The effort on Facebook by Obama supporters is showing unbelievable growth… For those that might dismiss this–that’s over 100,000 people you can keep in contact with if you are a campaign. And it’s only in a short time.
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Posted in January 25th, 2007
John Gibson himself After it’s clearly been demonstrated that Besuki Primary School was a public school, Gibson suggests the reporter who did the story probably went to the same madrassa. Fair and Balanced.
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Posted in January 25th, 2007
Fox News-–which unless they have changed it, haven’t apologized and haven’t corrected the story instead taking Obama’s response and saying they are just ‘putting that out there’. They called Anderson Cooper the “Paris Hilton of Television News”
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Posted in January 24th, 2007
She even calls out her own paper Let me point out, I screw up and in two particular cases I really screwed up. I try and catch the mistakes and own up to them. I’m sure I’ve missed some corrections as I am one person. All that said, it’s a lot better to apologize even […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2007
Shame on the Blagojevich Administration for attempting to privatize the lottery and both allowing a decrease in payouts and more aggressive marketing. If video poker is the crack cocaine of gambling, the State of Illinois under Blagojevich is pushing the gateways drugs. Fritchey has two excellent posts on the details.
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Posted in January 24th, 2007
I understand that pro-choice groups don’t like parental notification, but as the Attorney General Lisa Madigan is charged with enforcing that weird thing called the law. Now, I tend to think the law is a bit of disaster in the making and would strongly support Fritchey’s bill (something I’m saying a lot of lately) as […]
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Posted in January 24th, 2007
Rich covers several angles and links to my contents on Muckraker. I followed up today–I’m not sure about the Shaw portion so correct me if I’m wrong.
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Posted in January 24th, 2007
Never Back Down from Fox or the Slime Machine To: Interested parties From: Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs Re: Debunked Insight Magazine and Fox News smear campaign In the past week, many of you have read a now thoroughly-debunked story by Insight Magazine, owned by the Washington Times, which cites unnamed sources close to a […]
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