28 May 2008

Capital-Bill Architects Basically Give Up

By Rich Miller

Back in 1966, with the Vietnam War escalating by the day, Vermont Senator George Aiken famously said that the United States should just "declare victory and go home."

History may have repeated itself last week when the two men assigned by Governor Rod Blagojevich to forge a compromise on a multi-billion-dollar capital-construction plan unveiled a $31-billion proposal for roads, bridges, schools, and mass transit and then quickly left town. Their war was unwinnable.

23 May 2008

Oral Arguments to the Iowa Supreme Court | Botsko v. Davenport Civil Rights Comm - 04/29/08

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21 May 2008

Remaking Rock Island: Armory Park and the Arts Could Revitalize the City's Core

By Jeff Ignatius

Reader issue #685 As it moves toward the biggest reinvention of the city since the creation of The District in 1992, Rock Island is also working to make itself Artist Central in the Quad Cities.

21 May 2008

Impeach Bush If He Attacks Iran

By John W. Whitehead

We have a president who does just about whatever he wants, the Constitution be damned. He has, among other things, asserted unchecked unilateral power, conducted surveillance on American citizens in violation of federal law, and ignored universal prohibitions on torture. And although years from now historians may refer to the "Bush Doctrine" in much the same way that they talk about the Monroe or Truman doctrines, they will most likely not hold it in the same esteem.

21 May 2008

Voters Favor Impeachment of Blagojevich

By Rich Miller

A new statewide poll has found that 59 percent of Illinois registered voters want the Illinois legislature to begin impeachment hearings against Governor Rod Blagojevich.

21 May 2008

Politically Correct Plaque Attack

By Garry Reed

Abraham Lincoln As one might expect in today's virulently aggressive politically correct culture, a movement is afoot to rewrite history, including, according to the Christian Science Monitor, "amending the plaques, statues, and memorials of historical figures to reflect their racist sentiments."

14 May 2008

Lucrative Business Proposal

By Garry Reed

FOR YOUR UTMOST OF PARAMOUNT ATTENTIONS!

It is to understand that you might be of somewhat apprehension because you do not know of me but I ensure I have a lucrative business proposal of mutually interest to share with you.

My name is Hillaracko Bamajohn McClainton. I am the most leading of Candidates for to becoming the Presidency of the United States of the Americas. My Spouse was former President of the U.S. of the America and I am also the Neocon Hero of War and the Great Charisma Leader of The Change.

14 May 2008

Saved by Schindler: Leon Leyson, May 19 at the i wireless Center

By Administrator

Leon Leyson Many of the lighter moments in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List came when the industrialist Oskar Schindler protested to German officials that children and people with disabilities were essential to his wartime manufacturing effort.

Leon Leyson, who will speak Monday at the i wireless Center in Moline, was the youngest person in Schindler's factory, and one of roughly 1,200 Jews that he saved from the Nazi death camps.

14 May 2008

Choose Our Own Adventure

By Rich Miller

Sometimes, you run across something so perfect that you just have to share it.

Last week, an anonymous commenter on my blog composed a thing of pure beauty. The Automated Rod Blagojevich Story Generator is a very funny satire on how our state politics are stuck in a bizarre, ever-repeating spectacle.

The idea, the commenter explained, is to "pick one item from each section to generate a typical Rod Blagojevich story." And here it is.

 

 

07 May 2008

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV

By Jeff Cohen

In the fall of 2002, week after week in debates televised on MSNBC I argued vigorously against invading Iraq. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers - no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated.

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