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[29 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]

Via Jim Bowman, the incumbent media is creepily unoriginal in it’s coverage of the Restoring Honor Rally.
From Google News search for “overwhelmingly white”:

At Beck rally, strong but vague feelings
Salon – Mark Benjamin – ‎3 hours ago‎

Tea parties “overwhelmingly white“? A term that a peculiar number of articles seem to be using … but no evidence of liberal collusion in the media here. …

Restore country’s values, rally told
The Spokesman Review – ‎5 hours ago‎

… Sarah Palin and other speakers at the “Restoring Honor” rally exhorted a …

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[27 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]

Guess what? The Washington Post says Obama advisers are looking to Ronald Reagan for “comparison and inspiration.” The Post says both presidents had, “big and bold plans – Reagan with massive tax cuts, Obama with a massive stimulus package and national health care. Reagan’s goal was to shrink government. Obama’s efforts have enlarged government.”

A deep recession knocked Reagan’s approval rating down and Republicans took a beating in the 1982 mid-terms. But he won a landslide second election in 1984 anyway.
President Obama hopes to repeat this feat and …

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[24 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

The following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.

Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.
Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
Iraq …

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[23 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

From the BBC
If Rod Blagojevich serves jail time, he will be the fourth Illinois governor since 1960 to be sent to prison on corruption charges. Why are officials from Illinois and its largest city, Chicago, so often shady?

Political corruption and Chicago go together like fashion and Milan or surfers and Sydney: the association is deep, and it has shaped the city.
Most Illinois historians date the corruption back to 1869, when three county commissioners were convicted of fraudulently awarding a contract to paint City Hall with expensive long-lasting paint.
The contractor instead …

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[13 Aug 2010 | 7 Comments | ]

Illinois’s premier political info warehouse Capitol Fax Blog is managed by Rich Miller who has a column for the Chicago Sun Times. Today Mr. Miller laments the lack of statesmen in politics – well there are statesmen but they are all too often crooks like Charley Rangel, the late Dan Rostenkowski, and so many other talented ‘sharp’ guys and gals.
Miller weeps -
“It’s tragic for Illinois that true statesmen such as Ryan and Rostenkowski turned out to be crooked. Their nefarious behavior led directly to Rod Blagojevich’s rise to …

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[6 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]

Folksy liberal Edward McClelland who writes the Channel 5 NBC blog Ward Room is filled with unsolicited sucker advice for the Illinois GOP. My question: Ed, anent your helpful suggestions to the GOP, when was the last time you voted for one of its candidates? Was it 2008 for McCain? 2004 for Bush? 2000 for Bush? I thought not.

Anyhow he just got up yesterday morning and decided to give the party a lot of gratuitous and unsolicited advice. This is from the same outfit that …

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[5 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]

Tribune (as it calls itself, not The Tribune) is the latest publication to feature an angry woman railing at the boys in Rome for blocking feminine access to the Roman Catholic priesthood. Knowing the caution of Tribune, I presume it studied the response Carol Marin got in her column the other week in the Sun-Times and gingerly put a toe into the pool. Only a few letters to the editor and one octogenarian blogger objected—so why not? The marketing advantage is self-evident. American women are taking…not …

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[31 Jul 2010 | 11 Comments | ]

In a circle of lame journalism only challenged by the Tribune’s breathless expose of Mark Kirk’s boating skills,  Edward McLelland at The Channel 5 Ward Room stokes up trivial story about *gasp* a date that didn’t go very well for a low level Young Republican in town.  Big Stuff (as Rich Miller says)?  Or a story that bores most everyone (as Tom Roeser says)?
McLelland did type in one interesting part of the story, a group of the usual suspects Sara Feigenholtz, Karen Yarborough and Iris Martinez in this case, are trying …

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[29 Jul 2010 | 7 Comments | ]

Just when Republicans have a chance to win, Capitol Fax blog sighed yesterday, hiding its inward grin, this happens! What is it? Big scandal…tremendous. Ranks right up there with Mark Kirk’s 1976 boat accident. The Cook county Republican party’s executive director resigns! Great God of mercy! Can the republic stand this earthquake which shakes the very timbers of western civilization?

After weeks of trying to sell the story, a newsletter formed to promote the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton finally hit pay-dirt when The Huffington …

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[24 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

Some of the lamest journalism ever recorded (outside of the immediate vicinity of where you are now), The Journolist pictured here.  More at I Own the World
H/T Jim Bowman