edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
In the “I can not make this stuff up” file, the EPA is going to declare CO2 is a “public danger”.
So the stuff we breathe out, and feeds plants so they grow so we can have food on the table is now a danger to us [...]
By Mark Rhoads
In a post on Sunday, I was critical of what I thought was the slow and incomplete coverage of The New York Times to the story of how hacked emails of top pro-human caused global warming scientists compared to overseas newspapers. Well here is one-half pat on the back [...]
December 7 is an unofficial Veteran's Day--and we can never have too many of those. So I just had to snap a photograph the Belleau Wood US Marines monument in Des Plaines, Illinois this afternoon.I've always been a pretty big football fan, but here are two things I do not remember seeing when watching college and pro games 25 years ago an more:
1. The constant attempts to punch or wrench loose the football during tackles. As I recall, fumbles used to be the result [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama's job approval in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking survey today -- 47 percent -- marks a new low for the president's job ratings.
Obama's approval has fallen below 50 percent in recent Gallup tracking, and had reached a low of 48 percentage [...]
by Mark Silva
In the aftermath of the ACORN workers offering tax advice to self-appointed undercover video-cops posing as a prostitute and pimp, ACORN has investigated itself and found that its employees broke no laws.
That may come as little surprise to ACORN's critics.
The organization's director calls the results of [...]
The Daily Herald reports
Cutting Illinois' minimum wage is increasingly becoming a key proposal by Republican candidates for governor as they push ideas to help the state's economy....Andy Mckenna, a Chicago business owner and former head of the Illinois Republican Party...told WBBM's At Issue program on 780 AM Friday that' [...]
Of course there's no concern about opening Thomson to international terrorists, after all, we've been okay thus far with an Illinoisan in our midst that plotted an attack on the Danish newspaper and the Mumbai assault.
The FBI reports today about additional charges on Chicagoan David Coleman Headley, but there's also two other Chicago' [...]
The conservative alternative to Mark Kirk. Running for Senate in Illinois. Give Patrick Hughes a good look.Rep. Mark Kirk's decision to abandon his previous position on cap-and-trade might have earned his U.S. Senate campaign a few extra supporters, but it's certainly angering his former allies in the environmental community.
Over the weekend, the Illinois Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) -- both of whom [...]
Rich Miller's >Question of the Day is similar to a question that occurred to me. News reports tell us that
Public surveillance cameras ... recorded (Chicago Public Schools CEO_ Michael Scott over a roughly 45-minute time period as he drove to the location along the Chicago River where he would,' [...]
URGENT from Life Advocacy Briefing on US Senate action today:
We have just received word from a key Capitol Hill staffer that the Nelson/Hatch Amendment to explicitly exclude abortion from the Senate’s version of ObamaCare is likely to come up in the Senate today – Monday, Dec. 7.
Please contact your two [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue national book-signing tour may be good for more than book sales:
Public opinion of the Republican former governor of Alaska has risen in recent months, according to the findings of a new [...]
At last week's full Chicago City Council meeting, Ald. Tom Allen (38th Ward) opposed Mayor Daley's budget and offered several proposals to raise revenue in the short-term without raiding various reserve funds. Included among them was a one-year pause on the mayor's precious tax increment financing (TIF) system. Later [...]
by Mark Silva
In Washington, there are talking heads, and then there are Talking Heads. And sometimes, both of them are talking about transportation.
The Brookings Institution is playing host to several speakers this week, including a couple with something oddly in common:
David Byrne, [...]
Sen. Dick Durbin had another busy weekend. The Senate Majority Whip is hustling to cut deals on some of the more contentious issues dividing Democrats as they hash out health care reform legislation. We will get to those debates shortly. First, check out this video of the Illinois' senior senator on the floor Saturday' [...]
I hate it when movie theaters put a message on the screen where they threaten to prosecute us for using a recording device. I understand they want to prevent people from copying movies, and I don't plan on any bootlegging, but I don't like doing business with places that treat [...]
below, from the Justice Department.....
CHICAGOAN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY IN 2008 MUMBAI ATTACKS
IN ADDITION TO FOREIGN TERROR PLOT IN DENMARK
Additional charges unsealed alleging retired Pakistani major conspired in Danish plot
CHICAGO -- New federal charges filed today allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in [...]
At a recent gathering that included several parents of teens and young adults, the topic turned toward vegetarianism, a dietary practice that most of the kids we were talking about had at least dabbled in.
The question on the table was, to paraphrase: "What's up with that, anyway?"
It wasn't a particularly [...]
Someone needs to tell President Obama that the presidential campaign ended 13 months ago--he's still playing the news cycles.On Saturday, it was discovered that Kevin Jennings’ organization GLSEN sponsored a youth conference at Tuft’s University in March 2000. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, [...]
It's insiders, not necessarily Democrats or Republicans, who benefit most from Illinois redistricting system, a coalition of government reformers said last week. Illinois' problems run deeper than how campaigns are financed, which men or women present themselves as candidates and the discontentedness of voters. The real problem, says a coalition pushing' [...]
UPDATED: In advance of his Wednesday meeting with business and environmental leaders at the White House regarding the Copenhagen conference, the President will meet with former Vice President Al Gore this afternoon in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.
4:40PM THE PRESIDENT meets with former Vice [...]
7:53 AM, December 7, 1941. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.A mash-up of dialogue from "How I Met Your Mother" and scenes from the classic animated Christmas special. Enjoy:
h [...]
There's been a lot of action since our last update on the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Here's the latest:
Over the weekend, Gov. Pat Quinn received the endorsement of both Citizen Action/Illinois and the Sierra Club. The campaign posted this video from a chilly lakefront press conference announcing the latter:
Quinn is scheduled to [...]
by Jim Tankersley
COPENHAGEN -- With strident appeals for action and sharp rebukes of their critics, diplomats from around the world launched a two-week negotiating summit in the Danish capital today, in hopes of producing a new agreement to curb climate change.
"The time for formal statements is over," said [...]
The Chicago Tribune has posted responses from candidates in the February 2010 primary. The answers are in the candidates' own words. You can browse for your favorites HERE.
Don't jump to conclusions if your candidate hasn't answered yet. Proft, the only GOP gubernatorial candidate shown as not responding, tells' [...]
by Mark Silva
This is "a date which will live in infamy,'' as President Franklin Roosevelt told the Congress the day after Japan unleashed a devastating surprise attack on American naval and air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.
"The United States was at peace with that nation,'' [...]
by John Brown's Ghost
Some times I write things just to be funny. Some times I write about things that are an outrage. Today, I get to do both - all in one article.
This week, the UN Climate Change Conference is being held in Copenhagen. To [...]
Midnight's the deadline for this year's Songs of Good Cheer contest, which Mary Schmich described this way:
This year we’re asking the clever and trivia-minded to create one or more questions related to holiday music. The questions should be multiple choice, preferably with four answers. The question should be amusing, maybe mildly informative, [...]Below, from House Homeland Security Committee....
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 2pm
311 Cannon House Office Building
Full Committee Markup
Meausures:
H.Res. 922, Directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the House of Representatives all information in the possession of the Department [...]
Illinois Prison Likely To House Detainees
Following a briefing Friday with large portions of the Illinois
congressional delegation, officials from the White House are signaling
that Thomson Correctional Center will likely become the new home for
dozens of detainees currently housed at the U.S. naval base at
Guantanamo Bay.
by Mark Silva
The Obama administration is holding a workshop today on open goverment.
It's closed to the public and press.
The workshop is being held by the Justice Department's Office of Information Policy for the public liasons at federal agencies who field requests for records filed under the [...]
[Article syndicated from TomRoeser.com. The views expressed do not necessarily represent those of IR.]
Kass
My favorite newspaper columnist John Kass' interview of Andy McKenna was superbly subtle which eluded some media critics. In the latest in a series of interviews which he's doing on candidates for' [...]
December 7, 1941..."a day that shall live in infamy," President Franklin Roosevelt grieved. Over 3000 American soldiers and civilians were killed that day in Hawaii, the first attack of its size by a foreign empire on Americans. The second was September 11, 2001.
Lest we forget...
RNC Chairman Michael Steele issued the following statement [...]
The Politico is reporting that "Dick Durbin, one of Barack Obama's closest allies, doesn't sound convinced that the president's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan would help stabilize the country. 'I’m skeptical about whether 30,000 more troops will make a difference,'" said Durbin on Fox News Sunday
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 6, 2009
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and the Economic Daily [...]
by Jim Tankersley
COPENHAGEN -- The Obama administration has finalized a declaration that greenhouse gases endanger public health, a senior administration official said today, opening the door to broad new regulations that could affect the largest segments of the American economy.
Under the so-called endangerment finding, the Environmental [...]
ThirdWaveDave remembers December 7, 1941 today on the 68th anniversary of the terrible attack on our nation.by John Bambenek
You'd Never Vote for a Democrat... So why would you support letting only the Democrats draw the legislative maps?
Sound extreme? That’s exactly what you get with the Fair Map Amendment. It doesn’t end gerrymandering… it will ensure that Mike Madigan unilaterally draws the maps and there is no' [...]
This clip has been around for over a year, but if you haven't seen it, you should. Rock musician Ted Nugent succinctly explains his commitment to the Second Amendment, and clarifies any question why he holds that position. Is he too extreme, or is he dead-on?
Your thoughts...
by Sam Pierce
In the age of "Climate-gate" and "Crasher-gate" we may have a scandal that shares the common thread of a break-in with Watergate... that is if the Obama-media would do its actual job and not its duty as propaganda organs of the administration. Some voices spoke of "Chicagogate" after [...]
by Travis Akin, E.D., Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch
Whenever I travel the state and talk about the need for lawsuit reform, most people immediately bring up Madison County. After all, Madison County has had a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation’s worst “Judicial Hellholes.”
Thankfully, Madison County residents took a stand [...]
by Mark Silva
First Lady Michelle Obama sat next to "the Boss'' last night.
Seated on her other side at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington was the president of the United States, there to oversee the honors for singer Bruce Springsteen - a Rock and" [...]
When Mayor Richard M. Daley traveled to Abu Dhabi in February, his office announced that the trip was intended to sell Chicago as a place to do business. Left unsaid was that that' [...]
With forecasts of snow expected to affect rush hour traffic Monday morning, and a winter storm predicted for this week, some Chicagoans decided it would be a good idea if they spent part of their Sunday shopping for salt and snow blowers.
According to [...]
The court-appointed monitor tapped to clean up hiring practices at City Hall has issued another stinging report detailing "the most significant instance" yet of city foot-dragging when reporting apparent violations of [...]
Maybe this would work for Chicago? BBC: Japanese hotels near stations are trying to attract train spotters with rooms marketed as having a "rail view". They throw in a timetable. Would it work for the El? The Blues Brothers view.Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.
Don't make the same mistake twice.
Stand when greeting a visitor...
Don't be rushed into making an important decision. People will understand if you say, "I'd" [...]
ABC7Chicago:The FBI is expected to provide Indian authorities with reports of Headley's and Rana's cellular telephone and e-mail communication with potential Mumbai attack suspects. Federal agents collected computers, records, cell phones and other evidence during raids on numerous Chicago and northern Illinois [...]
