27 Feb 2008

All Threats All the Time

By Garry Reed

You're listening to WIMP radio, 9.11 on your dial, the All Threat All the Time station where our programming format aims to keep everyone in a perpetual state of fear. So stay in bed and pull the covers up over your heads.

Here are the most important Threat Levels for today:

27 Feb 2008

Illinois Might Consider an Election-Year Rarity: a Tax Hike

By Rich Miller

Normally, a tax hike would be the last thing that state legislators would consider in an election year. Tax increases are usually approved in "off years" to give voters time to forget before they vote. So, you'd think that a large income-tax increase in Springfield would be the last thing being considered.

20 Feb 2008

Past Partisanship: Eleanor Clift, February 20 at St. Ambrose University

By Administrator

Eleanor Clift Political commentator Eleanor Clift's Wednesday lecture at St. Ambrose University is titled "America at a Crossroads - Politics or Partisanship," but many will likely be more interested in inside baseball, particularly considering the unusual uncertainty surrounding the Democratic party's nomination for president.

20 Feb 2008

Evolution Run Amok

By Garry Reed

While some people don't believe in evolution at any speed, other people, such as the scientific types at the National Academy of Sciences, claim that human evolution is speeding up.

20 Feb 2008

All Signs Point to an Early Gubernatorial Campaign

By Rich Miller

The 2008 general election is almost nine months away, but you don't have to listen too closely to hear some of the first shots of the 2010 governor's race being fired.

20 Feb 2008

Best of ... ?

By administrator

I understand that money talks. I understand voters need to be heard. (See "Best of the Quad Cities," River Cities' Reader Issue 671, February 13-19, 2008.)

13 Feb 2008

Is It Time to Consider Impeaching the President?

By Randy Stalsberg

It's been almost 10 years since the House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton for lying under oath when asked during a deposition in the Paula Jones case whether he had had sexual relations with a White House intern.

13 Feb 2008

TSA: Taking, Splurging, and Appropriating

By Garry Reed

In what must be one of the few fun-filled functions in the otherwise beastly boring lives of bureaucrats, undercover operatives try to sneak weaponry through airport checkpoints to test how good Transportation Security Administration screeners are at finding guns, bombs, and knives.

13 Feb 2008

Jones' "Victories" Could Escalate Statehouse War

By Administrator

There could be some loud fireworks the next time the Illinois Senate Democrats meet behind closed doors.

13 Feb 2008

Publish Informed Opinion

By administrator

I was angered by the utterly uninformed op-ed piece by a guest columnist Mark Hendrickson on an issue of great importance to our national security. (See "Should the Senate Ratify the U.N. Sea Treaty?" River Cities' Reader Issue 670, February 7-13, 2008.) For starters: the LOS Treaty gives no substantive responsibility to the U.N. - nor, for that matter, did the U.N. "adopt it" as Mr. Hendrickson's screed erroneously states; "U.N." appears in its title merely because the diplomatic conference that negotiated it was convened 35 years ago pursuant to a U.N. General Assembly Resolution.

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