Archive for February, 2008
Posted in February 27th, 2008
His ads got pulled off of the local television stations for violating disclaimer rules in political advertising. That Bill Pascoe sure is on top of everything: From the Foster Campaign Oberweis Ad Pulled Off Local Stations In continuing pattern of breaking the law, Oberweis’ TV commercial violates FCC regulations (Geneva, IL) – A television commercial […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Is this law and order breaking out? BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus near Mosul on Tuesday, killing nine passengers near Iraq’s main northern city which is regarded as an Al-Qaeda stronghold, a security official said. In another brazen daylight attack, a group of armed men kidnapped 21 […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Dan Curry appears confused about Willard Romney’s faith: I don’t recall AP jumping this quickly to the defense of Mitt Romney and the many smears of his religion. Willard isn’t a Mormon? Because for the comparison to make any sense, Obama would have to actually be a Muslim. BTW, most of the attacks on Willard […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
For those who were around when this blog started, the blogosphere was a very different place where liberal and conservative blogs tended to talk amongst each other and link accordingly. That changed as the wingnutosphere went batshit insane. One of those early bloggers who I remember having relatively interesting exchanges with is Bill Hobbs. Now […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Dan Zanoza helps underscore the race baiting going on with Obama over at Illinois Review: I don’t think there’s any problem with using Obama’s middle name. It’s part of his heritage. It’s part of who he is. And, if that heritage, combined with some of the recent comments made by Obama and his wife, Michelle, […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
I would normally say that it was that he got several facts wrong, but instead of asking questions that illuminate a position, he tried to ask gotcha question after gotcha question after gotcha question. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3nCwv57H_2g” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] It wasn’t good questioning because it didn’t allow for clarification or nuance instead insisting on […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Michael Berube (I can’t do the accents in any reasonable amount of time) answers the important questions from the important people: Mister Answer Man, Greg Sargent seems awfully flip about this. He seems to think that Obama is now completely off the hook, and that the question itself was “inane.” I’m not so sure. Aren’t […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Or why understanding transitive relationships should be taught in Journalism 101. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/nJkU1e-_r3w” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] What the fuck was that? What do you do to assure…blah, blah, blah. Timmeh took his cue from Richard Cohen in the Washington Post column: Barack Obama is a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Its […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
DCCC Release: Jim Oberweis, the Republican Congressional candidate in IL-14, appears to have broken federal election law by triggering the Millionaires’ Amendment without notifying his opponent as required by law. This would not be the first time Oberweis broke the law or tried to deceive voters. “Jim Oberweis has a disturbing pattern of violating federal […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Going back to October, a poster at Illinois Review argued that such groups as Pharmacists for Life unfairly are tagged with being extremists by Planned Parenthood. How could anyone think that This is how toxic these loons are.
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Eaton tries to lie herself out yesterday’s lie. She claims the below proves that Ginsburg thought the ERA would eliminate survivor benefits for women who choose to stay home. “Congress and the President should direct their attention to the concept that pervades the Code: that the adult world is (and should be) divided into two […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Hiram: Jim Oberweis Believes In Health Care For Cows – Not People Jim Oberweis supports health care for all cows in his business. But the Chicago Tribune points out Jim Oberweis is against employers providing health care insurance for people – he says employees should go it alone. Cows get guaranteed health care while people […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been performing some updates on the site. I moved to a new host and am very happy with it, but I also put some maintenance in on a bunch of features including the feeds which are much improved and now includes a comment feed. You’ll also notice […]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
Check out the tag scum I cannot wait to visit on March 5th.
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