Archive for October, 2007
Posted in October 23rd, 2007
Eaton whines: Frankly, his conclusions are logical for his system of belief about beginnings, which rejects the notion that an Intelligent Designer had anything to do with the way things are on Planet Earth. Wrong, and I pointed this out: Nothing Watson said on intelligence is demonstrated by the scientific literature. And, in fact, his […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
I swear this belongs on the Colbert Report, but no, it is real. The winners? Thom Mannard and… State Senator Dan Kotowksi. I hope they give him a plaque. He can put it up in his office and be proud. Tom Roeser is upset too. It appears someone didn’t know who he was and Dan […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Many regular readers will remember Dennis Byrne yelling GET OFF MY LAWN to the Illinois Democratic Network, well Mark Kirk just joined in to a bunch of folks at a town hall meeting. Ellen of the 10th (Doing bang-up work in the 10th) reports: After the stage show I described last night, the questioning finally […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Hawks to put home games on cable.
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Henry addresses Sully’s vapidness…. The nut of the argument is here from the article Henry links to: To summarize what follows below (“shorter sloth”, as it were), the case for g rests on a statistical technique, factor analysis, which works solely on correlations between tests. Factor analysis is handy for summarizing data, but can’t tell […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Eaton over at Illinois Review jumps on James Watson’s rantings about evolution and insists that since he’s a racist, evolution leads to racism. This is equivalent to arguing because Fran is a moron who doesn’t understand logic or the scientific theory of evolution, believing in Christ makes you a moron. The most basic problem with […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Carol Marin argues that Jay Footlik’s challenge to Seals for the Democratic nomination in IL-10 creates a problem for the general election. On the issue of money, it is an issue because both are going to spend a fair amount in the primary, but at the same time, it gives them incentives to build up […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
McQueary has a very good column on the Lipinski PAC All-American Eagle Fund Former U.S. Rep. William Lipinski formed a political action committee years ago called the All American Eagle Fund to support kids programs, in theory. But Lipinski instead spent most of the money on office telephone bills, auto leases, parking tickets, an Art […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2007
Interesting the guy defending Lipinski is a Republican. Again. Jim Tankersly of the Trib does a good job of discussing netroots support of Mark Pera in his primary challenge to Dan Lipinski in Illinois 3 Last Line: Kirk gives Lipinski much better odds. “Netroots generally always fail,” he said. “We all remember the administration of […]
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Posted in October 18th, 2007
VIa Rich Dan Hynes sums it all up The Illinois Legislative Session of 2007: A Fable. “Once upon a time, in a Land of Lincoln, a Governor presented a budget in a lovely town called Springfield. This Governor was great and generous and had a tremendous head of hair. And the wise and diligent people […]
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Posted in October 18th, 2007
Via Rich: He’s hanging around for a bit From NBC’s Mike Viqueira The halls of the Capitol are rife with reports of former Speaker Denny Hastert leaving Congress before the end of his term. These reports are only kind of true. I just spoke with Hastert, who calls the reports a “rumor,” and that he […]
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Posted in October 17th, 2007
The Hill Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is expected to announce Thursday that he is resigning his seat in Congress effective later this year, eventually setting up a special election to succeed him, knowledgeable GOP sources said late Wednesday. UPDATE: Blagojevich has to set the special in 115 days after Hastert’s last day. That could […]
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Posted in October 17th, 2007
Lauzen is employing Jon Zahm in the IL-14 race. I imagine the local sheriffs have increased the number of process servers to handle the load.
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Posted in October 17th, 2007
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Nst-aXvdrR4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] And from defunk blog Polis, the definitive take on the commercial: Those Oberweis copter commercials may be the funniest thing on tv these days (save Arrested Development). Forget the fact that his numbers are said to be way off, just having him spout off that anti-immigrant rhetoric over the […]
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Posted in October 16th, 2007
Desperation is in the air–though I’d still give the strong odds to Roskam in this race. Morgenthaler in the IL-6 race gets hit with a faux positive mailer received by many in IL-6. Download the file here–it’s jpg The link goes to here It appears to be a site that collects thoughts of soldiers serving […]
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