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  • Saturday morning update

    Capitol Fax

    * Gov. Pat Quinn will sign legislation today rolling back the veto override threshold on the Cook County Board. The legislation moves the minimum required vote down from an insane four-fifths to a far more reasonable three-fifths. Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is opposed to the legislation, but as I [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:52am EST
    by Rich Miller
  • ObamaCare Saturday and a tea party

    Marathon Pundit

    The House of Representatives is in a rare Saturday session, where it is poised--or not poised--to vote on its health care reform bill that will see federal government eventually take over one-sixth of our economy.

    Meanwhile, in the heart of the district represented by Dan Lipinski [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:14am EST
  • GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - November 7, 2009

    ILLINOIZE

    Articles of interest to Illinois Republicans recently posted by ABC7, NBC5, CBS2, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago News, Suburban Life, Pioneer Local, Southtown Star, Rockford Register Star, Bloomington Pantagraph, Peoria Journal Star, Springfield State Journal Register, Belleville News Democrat, Southern Illinoisan, Illinois Review, Public [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:55am EST
  • House health-care compromise reached

    The Swamp

    by Noam N. Levey and James Oliphant

    With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill today, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to settle a long-simmering debate over how to restrict federal funding for abortion.

    The deal appeared to clear the way for a vote [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:30am EST
    by Mark Silva
  • Obama honors Fort Hood's fallen

    The Swamp

    by Mark Silva

    President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades today in a weekly address that also honors the [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:15am EST
    by Mark Silva
  • Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st Century Issue

    illinoisreview

    Number of comments: 0

    by Phyllis Schlafly

    No sooner had we celebrated the exit of Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, because of his Communist connections, another off-the-wall Administration embarrassment surfaced. President Obama nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy.

    We [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:32am EST
    by IR
  • Roadhouse Bar and Grill

    Elginite.org

    Number of comments: 1
    Roadhouse Bar and Grill is the new establishment that will open in the Grove Theater/Prairie Rock space in downtown Elgin. I have nothing to add beyond what has been posted in the thread on the Prairie Rock closing, but wanted to designate a thread for anybody posting information about this [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:30am EST
    by RS
  • Bears Game Signatures

    Second City Cop

    A bright idea from our brain trust:
    Petition signatures at the Bears game SundayThere are going to be 65,000 or so people there. Figure a sizable percentage of the fans are city dwellers and a significant number of them will be registered to vote in Chicago. A bunch of dedicated [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:01am EST
  • Climate change hang-ups: Copenhagen

    The Swamp

    by Jim Tankersley

    Perhaps nothing illustrates the challenges of government efforts to curb global warming more than the chain of events that unfolded this week on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

    In Washington, the Senate environment committee approved sweeping limits to the United States' emissions of the heat-trapping gases scientists blame' [...]

    Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:10pm EST
    by Mark Silva
  • Schaumburg Township Republicans Unanimously Endorse Dodge

    illinoisreview

    Number of comments: 12
    Dodge

    from the Dodge for Comptroller campaign

    Thursday night, the Schaumburg Township Republican Organization unanimously endorsed Jim Dodge, Republican candidate for the Office of Illinois Comptroller.  Michael Adelizzi is the township chairman.

    “An official nod from this highly respected organization over my opponents (Judy Baar-Topinka and Bill Kelly) is more [...]

    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:09pm EST
    by IR
  • Dugan punts

    Change of Subject

    Evidently serial sex killer Brian Dugan is taking a pass on the opportunity to testify at his own sentencing hearing. Tsk. After he tried so hard to speak out at one of his court dates, after he had a note slipped to the media, after he tried to arrange for [...]

    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:03pm EST
    by Eric Zorn

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