Add this widget to your own blog or website:Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Gitmo Must Be Closed
While they warn that President Obama "must not
simply institutionalize indefinite detention in Illinois," the New York
Times writes that it is "impossible to credibly repair this nation's
justice system while it operates a shameful symbol'" [...]
Click here to read the first blog interview with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's first blog interview, which was conducted by John Hawkins of Right Wing News.Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Terrorists In The Heartland? Chill
When the Gitmo detainees arrive
in Illinois, writes the Tribune's Steve Chapman, "I predict,
Illinoisans will pay attention for about five minutes and then go on
calmly with their lives."
Taking Aim
Environmentalists [...]
Some health care reform ramblings.
The Republicans are crying about having to read a 2,000 page bill. Locally, Republican Isaac Hayes, challenging Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. for Congress, has lamented Jackson’s support of health care reform. In a strange move, on his campaign blog, Hayes reproduces a press release from [...]
(Video below) - Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) is married to a scumbag named Robert Creamer. He, in turn, is married to a scumbag member of Congress. Now, regular readers of this blog know this already, but not many people are aware [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Political Ethics
University of Illinois political science professor
Brian Gaines offers his assessment of the state's new campaign finance
legislation.
Voting Habits
University of Illinois at Chicago
professor Dick Simpson analyzed the recent voting records of the Cook
County [...]
Worlee Glover & JP Paulus will be on the radio today.Blogger Liberty Watchman makes the best of what appears to be a done deal between Governor Pat Quinn and Barack Obama, implementing the Chicago Way on the Thomson Prison plan:
Forget the appraisals, Mr Quinn. Figure out how much we paid to build the thing. Then add every dollar we ever [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
The Road To Redemption
The Huffington Post chronicles the story of
Norris Cooper, an ex-convict from Chicago who is turning his life
around with the help of the Safer Foundation.
Blocked Access
Tracy
Siska of the Chicago Justice [...]
Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, a Republican candidate for governor whom this blog has endorsed, is calling for a series of public hearing on transferring Guantanamo Bay terrorists to the Thomson prison in northwestern Illinois.
Please welcome back to our staff Jamey Dunn, who began work this week as our visiting Statehouse bureau chief. Jamey was an intern for Illinois Issues during last spring's legislative session. As bureau chief, she will be responsible for Statehouse coverage, maintaining this blog and [...]
My good blogger friend is running for Illinois State Representative, 62nd district:
Paul Mitchell picks up Four Group Endorsements
“This morning, everyone here at Paul Mitchell’s campaign office is in a celebratory mood,” said a campaign volunteer.. “The list of endorsements is growing; we’ve just added four conservative [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
The Scholarship Scam
Columbia College undergraduate journalism
students spent the past three months examining the century-old state
legislative scholarship program. Steve Rhodes highlights their findings.
A Careful Revamp
The Sun-Times offers some suggestions for improving the way [...]
This is the conclusion of blogger Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way, who chides the Peoria media for ignoring business ties of the woman who wants to be the Democrats’ choice to challenge Aaron Schock:
A glaring gap in that press coverage needs to be filled. Democratic candidate Deirdre [...]
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon [...]
As a regular participant in the GOP Whip Team blogger conference calls, I'm pleased to see the man behind them, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), is the Republican congressman with the brightest future, according to a National Journal poll.US News' blogger Robert Schelsinger wrote Saturday that Rasmussen's poll revealing that 51% of Illinoisans are opposed to the feds moving Gitmo-detained terrorists to western Illinois' Thomson Correctional Prison is the result of paranoid Republicans feeding irrational fears.
"If Rasmussen's polling is correct, we have a triumph of cheap" [...]
Today's question of the day at the SJ-R's Boiler Room blog:
Did Illinois lawmakers do the right thing by legalizing video gambling in bars and other non-casino locations?As one can tell, Illinois has now legalized video gambling at places other than casinos, i.e., corner taverns, a/k/a everywhere. No more will [...]
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