Call It A Comeback
Operation Turn DuPage Blue gets into the game with Bob Peickert running. At one time this was like running to be king of the ant hill, but there is a real opportunity to make inroads in DuPage. If only someone who thought winning elections mattered was running things instead of someone complaining about all those damn volunteers mucking up the strategy club
I blame a bunch of cowards who listened him. Hell, Cheney probably made it a contest to see how many times he could get the Republican Congress to roll over for a doggie treat.
Next year, “Muhammad” will be the most popular baby boy’s name in England. The radical elements of the Muslim world have been welcomed into European societies that subordinated their sense of self-preservation to an empty-headed commitment to value-judgment free diversity. No need to blow the front door off when it is unlocked.
Not so much. Mohammed comes in at number 22 and Muhammed comes in at number 44. Looking at past years, Mohammed hasn’t cracked number 20 ever. IOW, Dan’s making shit up.
But it goes a bit further. The variants on Mohammed both standout compared to the girl’s list where there are no clearly Islamic or Arab based names on the list of the top 50 meaning there’s something else going on–namely, Muslim parents of all ethnic backgrounds use the name Mohammed far more frequently than any other name. And so the number 22 and number 44 placing of the names don’t mean that there are that many new Muslim babies as much as a very high percentage of the boys are named one or the other.
In Honor From August 20, 2003:
Otherwise, I think his Pundit Patrol will be a great niche to build off of–I’m already using it daily after two days. Zorn makes the most sense of any of the columnists at the Trib because he has a very conversational voice and has expanded that to his own web site. The blog was the next likely choice.
Wanting to take credit for it (like any good blogger regardless of how silly the claim) , I looked around my archives and find that I never did suggest him, though I did suggest the Red Eye incorporating Nathan Bierma as a blogger. Nathan does a fair amount of free lance work for the Trib.
Interestingly, Zorn had said it would be a great honor to get the Tempo slot vacated when the Trib fired Bob Greene. I think he may have found a far better gig in the long run. Especially with his conversational voice he should be a prime example of how a columnist can connect readers to the print and electronic editions of a paper and give readers a personal stake in the publication.
Up DATE: Butchered link and text fixed. Don’t blog on bleary eyes.
Probably won’t post until tomorrow.
CQ (subscription req'd) Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., will not seek re- election next year, GOP sources say. A formal announcement is expected Friday.
Tailwind Sports shuts down the Discovery Cycling Team.
Discovery just took it’s 8 Tour de Frances in 9 years and was incredibly successful in other races. It’s like shutting down the Yankees in their prime.
With nearly everyone in Washington taking a close look at IL-14 whether Denny stays in or not, we get this nugget of wisdom from John Laesch:
The three area Democrats who have announced their intentions to run were not so silent. Of the three, only John Laesch of Yorkville has faced Hastert before, losing to him in the 2006 general election after winning the Democratic primary.
After his 2006 run against Hastert, Laesch ran polling calculations and determined that, no matter how well he could mobilize voters, he would lose a rematch by at least a few percentage points.
Without an incumbent in the race, he said, “it creates an opportunity for a win here in the 14th District,” which stretches from Kane County almost to the Mississippi River. He said he thought increasing anti-war sentiment would contribute to that opportunity.
“Our next poll will probably run Laesch vs. Burns, Laesch vs. Lauzen, Laesch vs. Oberweis,” he said.
You might think about running Laesch vs. Stein and Laesch vs. Foster. Or not. Whatever.
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