Who knew that Washington Post columnist-turned-hack David Broder, Mr. “Conventional Wisdom,” was a Nine-Percenter? Doesn’t conventional wisdom usually represent more than nine percent?
I was prepared to write another blog entry about America’s disastrous involvement in Iraq - and why we need to withdraw our troops immediately. Then I started reading the morning paper about the president’s surge strategy and thought a bit about it. I reflected on what I had learned from the recent testimony […]
Today Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel gave a speech at the Brookings Institute. Two things stand out in it for me. The first is the shear volume of Bush Administration disasters and misdeeds. Obviously part of the Bush Administration/Karl Rove strategy is to attack everywhere to overwhelm their opponents, who lack the broad […]
Today’s Daily Herald story “Talk of sex isn’t for school: Two Dist. 204 parents want subject matter left to families” about parental objections to the National Day of Silence (pro-gay/lesbian tolerance) and/or the “National Day of Truth” (anti-gay/lesbian tolerance) recognition days in schools was highly biased (presenting only the anti-homosexual and anti-sex discussion/recognition side) […]
[Hat tip TPMCafe]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried yesterday to explain to the president that his “stay the course” strategy is the wrong course,
“While ten more of our brave men and women died yesterday in one of the deadliest days of this war, President Bush continues to offer more of the same: a failed policy […]
…as in 33% approval rating. Hard to imagine what it would take for our president to become “the Fourth.” It is too scary to contemplate.
From the Obama Blog:
“I strongly disagree with today’s Supreme Court ruling, which dramatically departs from previous precedents safeguarding the health of pregnant women. As Justice Ginsburg emphasized in her dissenting opinion, this ruling signals an alarming willingness on the part of the conservative majority to disregard its prior rulings respecting a woman’s medical concerns […]
Fresh off his recent voyage on the Santa Maria, where he discovered the American continent, columnist Thomas Friedman discovered Barack Obama and wrote about it in yesterday’s New York Times:
“It seems to me that the strongest case one could make for an Obama presidency right now is rarely articulated: it is his potential to repair […]
I really meant to mention Carolyn Shannon a lot earlier - she’s a great woman who has also become a friend, and has been very active in a number of causes (both ones I’ve been involved in - and numerous others). Because of her intelligence, her interest in the community and especially her interest […]
Suzyn Price is an incumbent District 203 School Board member who spent seven years as Director of Grants & Special Projects at North Central College and next month will become Vice President of Advancement at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Terry Fielden is a candidate for the school board who has spent years […]
