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by Matthew Hay Brown
House Democrats expect bipartisan support today for a bill that would suspend new shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
By reducing demand on the global market, Democrats say, the move could cut the cost of gasoline by as much as 24 cents per gallon.
Wishful thinking, says the [...]
by Mark Silva
As President Bush takes off for a weeklong journey through the Middle East today, with a goal of helping Israeli and Palestinian leaders seek a "common ground'' in peace talks, Lebanon once again is embroiled in deadly civil strife.
Bush, making just his second visit to Israel as [...]
Good morning.
Here are a few Washington events of note for Tuesday, May 13.
President Bush is departing on another Mideast trip.
The Congressional Human Rights Caucus is holding a briefing on "Human Trafficking from Conflict Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa."
The [...]
While it’s despicable that GOP “leaders” such as Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would choose to slice out only the few phrases that would make the presumptive Democratic nominee for president look bad (and they have to actually ignore those phrases’ real intent even [...]
A student teacher who uses a service dog for his epilepsy has had to leave his position early after a Muslim student [...]
'This is an emergency," Gov. Rod Blagojevich did not say last August.
"Children are being shot and killed," he did not add.
Nor did the governor insist to reporters that "for lawmakers to say we can't [fund an anti-violence initiative is] exactly the reason why there's so much violence out there today. And [...]
You are a clear thinker and logical in your reasoning. You are ambitious to learn and better yourself. You enjoy good literature and music and like artistic surroundings. You need an unusual amount of love and understanding and are demonstrative in [...]
H/T to the Jawa Report
Nice to see that they didn't loose the White Man disease and still can't dance
Nice ot see them act like normal guys. Making fools of themselves. I think that maybe they can make the Jihadis laugh themselves to death.
A reader commented:People tell me I should be more understanding of what Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is going through.
The media has been relentless. The Chicago Sun-Times today ribs Stroger’s choices for a new county hospital board: Hospital board slights suburbs.
They tell me we have to understand “the [...]
Poblano is all the rage right now in the progressive blogosphere. By combining and rating polls and pollsters and then applying census data and fancy math Poblano is running rings around the primary prediction game.
Of note here in Illinois is our own Progress Illinois. Both outfits run a tight professional [...]
Our “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” can be awful odd sometimes.
A report out of Iowa from the Associated Press tells the story of a college student who was arrested when he allegedly struck an officer with some M&Ms:
Sean McGuire was arrested early Sunday [...]
A reader clued us in to a post on Rogers Park Bench, which highlighted WLS radio host Jerry Agar'sby Matthew Hay Brown
House Republicans unveiled a new slogan today to go with their long-anticipated rebranding effort for the 2008 elections. And as several bloggers now have pointed out, it turns out it's already being used - to market an antidepressant.
"The Change You Deserve" is a trademark used by [...]
by James Oliphant
LOGAN, W. Va-- Little Logan got the full Hillary Monday.
Speaking to a crowd of close to 1,000 people in this mountainous West Virginia coal town, Clinton delivered a kitchen sink of a speech, conflating all of the various themes she has employed during this extended Democratic presidential [...]
Let's hope Obama can park a van better than the clowns driving this van on May 9 and 10 in Rogers Park, Chicago.CHICAGO--That Atlantic article (see post below) about Obama and Israel triggered an attack fro GOP House leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Release from Boehner.....
..Also, provided below is a statement by Rep. Cantor. Thanks.
“It is truly disappointing that Senator Obama called Israel a ‘constant wound,’ ‘constant sore,’ and that [...]
On [...]
by Rick Pearson
LOUISVILLE -- "It's been awhile since I've been to Louisville," Sen. Barack Obama said Monday night in his opening remarks to several thousand people at a rally at the Kentucky International Convention center.
Indeed, it was only days after Obama announced his presidential candidacy in Springfield, Ill., in [...]
This is a letter to all of those on the Campaign For a Free Media in Yemen on Facebook. He has been jailed in Yemen for writing about the government and in Yemen they have no Freedom of the Press and the government can throw people in jail for [...]
by James Oliphant
CHARLESTON, W.Va.-Here's an interesting passage from the speech Barack Obama gave today on helping America's veterans.
Some of the most inspiring are those you meet at places like Walter Reed Army Medical Center. They're young men and women who may have lost a limb or even their ability [...]
