Joe Biden (when it works) recently declared his intent to consider the presidency in two years according to USA Today (via Political Wire).
Biden has been vocal about foreign affairs for a little while now, he may think that foreign affairs (e.g. Iraq) will still be the focus of the nation in 2008, and give him […]
The Bush Administration privatization plan for Social Security is a Snow job. It’s worth taking stock of Paul’s argument, but not taking stock in Social Security privatization.
From today’s Naperville Sun:
“Boards and commissions
The issue: On Tuesday, the council considered a proposal that would require [Mayor George] Pradel to share all resumes for the Plan Commission and Transportation Advisory Board and allow council members to vote on each nominee instead of several in one package. But the motion failed by a 4-4 […]
The Naperville Sun is reporting that the DuPage County Drug Court will now accept people charged with Driving Under the Influence. This reverses a previous decision that was criticized by a number of groups, including officials in Kane County (who accept people with DUI charges in their drug court). Those officials suggested that […]
Read it like your Social Security check may depend upon America understanding it.
There was torture before, and there was torture after reports publicly surfaced about U.S. prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib.
Here’s one key quote from the New York Times:
“[Confidential F.B.I. memorandums obtained by the AP and the ACLU] show that relations between agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and senior military officials at the […]
I’ve said a lot of good things about Tom Cross’s political touch - so one of the things I’d love to hear on his blog is who his favorites are for the new IL GOP Chair that will replace Judy Baar Topinka.
After the RNC convention, Cross had this to say about Andy “i’m lovin’ it” […]
State Senator Kirk Dillard, April 22, 2004:
“My polling shows that only 12 to 14 percent of DuPage County identify themselves as Democrats. If I do my job, it could be conceivably nine to one Republican in this county.
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And, again, [DuPage] county still falls two and a half, to three to one Republican.”
In June the […]
Political Wire cites a Washington Times report that former New York City Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani was the first choice for the Homeland Security Secretary position Tom Ridge is vacating. If the report is true, Giuliani was smart to decline if he has further political ambition - it’s hard to imagine the upside to […]
The “So-Called ‘Austin Mayor’” pointed me to Josh Marshall’s suggestion that “[i]n the coming Social Security debate, Democrats should dust-off Clinton’s ‘mend it, don’t end it’ rhetoric” (read Clinton’s ‘The Job of Ending Discrimination in This Country Is Not Over’ speech here). I admire Marshall, but here I do not agree. Marshall is […]
