Archive for March, 2007
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
McCain releases a bunch of Illinois endorsements: LLINOIS STATE LEADERS SUPPORTING SENATOR MCCAIN Senator Pam Althoff Senator Dan Cronin Senator Kirk Dillard Senator John Jones Senator Dave Luechtefeld Senator John Millner Senator Dale Risinger Senator Dan Rutherford Senator Frank Watson Representative Dan Brady Representative Rich Brauer Representative Mike Fortner Representative Paul Froehlich Representative Sid Mathias […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
“It’s a major concession from the President’s initial offer to Congress, which was that they go fuck themselves.” When the Daily Show is doing the job of the major news organizations. Not universally true as you can watch this hysterical exchange between Tony Snow and Harry Smith. Smith at the end is priceless. The Daily […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
Yeah, any sense of reasonableness goes out the window when they start saying this garbage: The executive branch is under no compulsion to testify to Congress, because Congress in fact doesn’t have oversight ability. So what we’ve said is we’re going to reach out to you – we’ll give you every communication between the White […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
Rich points out Fitzgerald is indicting Al Sanchez of the Hispanic Democratic Organization (everyone remember to type this out–it’s rather mysterious as just HDO to readers who aren’t familar) (HDO) and Streets and Sanitation Department Commissioner to Daley. The key to me is that Sanchez isn’t a Bridgeport pal and as such may not have […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
Watergate has been used to append gate to all sorts of scandals, but I tend to think that a plan to essentially undermine the checks and balances of the United States government would then be used to modify fairly serious scandals and not, some guy made a web video and is marginally tied to some […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
I’m stealing the line from Rich’s Headline a while ago, but Alexi Giannoulias has been an incredibly pleasant surprise for his performance so far. He finally put to bed the damn hotel deal. He has worked hard on Bright Start—Fritchey covered this as well. And today, he pushes back against the Governor’s really stupid idea. […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
Dan Rutherford pointing out mandating a moment of silence statewide is pointless.
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
To Elizabeth Edwards and the entire family.
continue reading.....
Posted in March 22nd, 2007
The NY Times. From Skeptical Brother Apparently Obama’s pastor wasn’t so upset after all. March 11, 2007 Jodi Kantor The New York Times 9 West 43rd Street New York, New York 10036-3959 Dear Jodi: Thank you for engaging in one of the biggest misrepresentations of the truth I have ever seen in sixty-five years. You […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 21st, 2007
To kick-off the new site, Illinois Reason, here is the first crosspost. From more about Illinois Reason go to the about page. The fine folks at Illinois Review are referring to the newest Insight Magazine for the reference to how ‘wacky’ Obama’s church is. Yes, the magazine run by a right wing cult leader who […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 21st, 2007
Tom DeLay meet Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley meet Tom DeLay [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XvOugoeztB0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 21st, 2007
Mark Kirk loves to point out that he is, himself, a veteran. Mark Kirk loves to brag about the North Chicago Veterans Administration Medical Center in his district. Mark Kirk loves to pose in photo-ops with African-American veterans of World War Two. Mark Kirk loves to grandstand about sponsoring legislation to issue coins commemorating disabled […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 20th, 2007
Patrick Fitzgerald U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted in the perjury conviction of a vice presidential aide, administration officials said […]
continue reading.....
Posted in March 19th, 2007
Sinus Infection—trying to regroup.
continue reading.....
Posted in March 15th, 2007
Thumb dealy The essential idea that 100 percent of students should be proficient summons up the notion of all of the children being above average in Lake Wobegon. The reduction in standards is statistically necessary. Furthermore, as I said back in 2003 small differences in small populations are often used to calculate whether an entire […]
continue reading.....