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Back at Ms. Schakowsky's town meeting a few months ago, when she was
trolling for a few moderate votes to head off the Greenie challenge, I
asked Ms. Schakowsky whether she was going to support the Colombian
Free Trade Agreement. She said no, citing paramilitary actions against
union members. ([...]
On January 28th Rep. Melissa Bean (D-8th) signed a letter with 21 other
Democrats urging Nancy Pelosi to move the bipartisan FISA legislation
forward.
This legislation is urgently needed to protect us from terrorist threats, but the trial lawyers lobby is apparently more important.
Melissa Bean has been unwilling to actually [...]
Quite the taxpayer watchdog, that Jeff Schoenberg. Fresh from tyrannizing the citizens of Northfield, our feckless Democrat state Senator belatedly swoops in, now that Rezko's deals are front page news. Tribune:
"It
looks like we should terminate the lease and ask for the $3.4 million
since it was [...]
Most party leaders in Washington are stupid – detached, played out, stuck in the wisdom they learned when they were coming up, in '78 or '82 or '94. Whatever they learned then, they think pertains now. In politics especially, the first lesson sticks. For Richard Nixon, everything came [...]
Just wanted to say thanks for helping to keep an Illinois ex-pat (91st & Western, Crestwood, Park Forest, Steger, Morris in Grundy Co. and Clifton in Iroquois County) now living in a small Georgia town near Savannah reasonably free from being too homesick. Sure I miss the snow, rush hour [...]
The following statement was posted at the IL Republican party website yesterday by Jason Heffley, Executive Director, Illinois Republican Party. Info on registering for the event is here.
[...]I just returned from the first performance of “Secret Language: A new play addressing race and class in our community” We had two members involved in the creation of this piece by Next Communities.
Alan Borg made thoughtful contributions to the [...]
Team America's 10th District Blog has a good post on the GOP nationally and here in Illinois. Read their thoughts here.
[...]The Oistrach Symphony Orchestra is presenting its 2008 Spring Open House concert at the De Paul University Concert Hall at 800 W. Belden Ave, in Lincoln Park, Chicago 60614 under [...]
Phyllis Wallace, host of the nationally syndicated radio program Woman to Woman is back on the air after a few years away. Her program, produced by Lutheran Hour Ministries returned this month and this time she has a website to complement her shows.
Phyllis is a woman of great [...]
During tonight's graduation ceremonies at Concordia Seminary, Roger Wehrli, former Mizzou and St. Louis Cardinals football player who was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2007, will be the recipient of this year's Christus Vivit Award.
Many St. Louisans will remember Wehrli as part of the Big Red-Cardiac [...]
As long as we're on the subject of Lutheran doings this morning, here is a YouTube video using a song by Lost and Found to run through a list of notable Lutherans. One notable Lutheran not mentioned is Congressman John Shimkus of Collinsville.
Thanks to Quincy Pundit for this [...]
Friday, May 16, 2008.
[...]That was the response of more than one expert I talked to in the last week about the costs of obtaining our Certificate of Need and subsequent work. That's even after some of the complicating issues. Of the $600,000 that we have paid Duane Morris, approximately $400,000 was related to [...]
That was the response of more than one expert I talked to in the last week about the costs of obtaining our Certificate of Need and subsequent work. That's even after some of the complicating issues. Of the $600,000 that we have paid Duane Morris, approximately $400,000 was related to [...]
GOPUSA Illinois Daily Clips for May 16, 2008 includes news and commentaries on the following topics:
Grow up in a Taft-Republican home and Senator Borah's not such a bad guy. Obama sure sounds like he's channeling Borah today. I've heard the voice many times growing up.
A Navy SEAL completes a water jump during a Special Boat Team 12 maritime craft air delivery system training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo/Seaman Matthew Syberg)
-By Warner Todd Huston
She claims that her students violated her civil rights. She says student’s “anti-intellectualism” made her life a living hell. So, this ex-Dartmouth professor is threatening to sue her students for the temerity to have doubted her hairbrained theories on “ecofeminism” and the “French narrative theory.”
Oh, professor [...]
-By Warner Todd Huston
Of course, no one could expect less of organized labor but to attack Republicans, even John McCain. But the amount of money proposed to be spent to destroy McCain really makes one wonder if every last union member would approve of such vast expenditures of their dues [...]
Relatives, witnesses and friends of a 19-year-old man shot and wounded by [...]
-By Thomas E. Brewton
New Orleanians born and bred in the welfare-state seem honestly believe that they are not required to do anything to help themselves.
A large number of people, most of whom apparently are residents of New Orleans, have favored me with four-letter-word denunciations of [...]
I repudiate my BBQing days when I thought that was what you called a group of people grilling and tilting cold ones, nope it is pulled pork, ribs and brisket the actual chow that is BBQ. Fine. Plus Kev cops to a crush on David Archuleta and reports on Iranian [...]
You have great ability and natural aptitude. You are a constant reader and enjoy only good literature. Observant, critical, shrewd and cautious, you are a competent social leader. You are a loving parent and the direct source of all happiness in [...]
