The Chicago Sun-Times’ Michael Sneed reports on rumors circulating among Democrats that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is running out of money:
Scoop du jour? Sneed hears major money problems in the Clinton camp may soon become a coroner knocking on her campaign door.
To wit: Word is the cash feeding into Hillary Clinton’s campaign coffers has not only [...]
March 28th, 2008
Categories: Democratic News, Elections, Hillary Clinton . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Good news from Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL). Rep. Foster will be delivering the Democratic Radio Address Saturday, the official party response to the President’s Weekly Radio Address. This in today from Bill Foster for Congress:
Dear Friends,
We have some great news to report: Bill has the honor of delivering the Democratic Radio Address [...]
March 28th, 2008
Categories: Chicagoland, Congress, Democratic News . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
March 26th, 2008
Categories: Democratic News, Elections, Hillary Clinton . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Less than one month ago, Cook County government was struggling, facing a February 29th shut-down. Now, they’re swimming in it, and Stroger has money to give away.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Stroger’s cousin, Donna Dunnings, will get a 12 percent pay increase as part of the 2008 budget.
How nice.
When Cook County Board President Todd [...]
March 24th, 2008
Categories: Chicago, Chicagoland, Democratic News . Author: G . Comments: 4 Comments
Easter Sunday was just another violent day in Iraq, with four American soldiers and 58 Iraqis killed today in violence around the country. The worst was in the Green Zone, above. The four American dead pushes the United States total to 4,000 officially reported.The grim email announcements from various news sources are arriving now.
According to [...]
March 23rd, 2008
Categories: International, Iraq . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
The Chicago Sun-Times carries a story from the Associated Press about a Muslim who converted to Catholicism at yesterday’s Holy Saturday Vigil at the Vatican. From the story:
Italy’s most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday with an Easter vigil baptism by the pope.
An Egyptian-born, [...]
March 23rd, 2008
Categories: Philosophical, Rant, Religion . Author: G . Comments: 2 Comments
With Bill Clinton’s tantrums in the not too distant past, Hillary’s woes magnified this week with reports that her campaign finished February in the red:
Despite a strong month of fund-raising in February in which she brought in $35 million, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton finished the month essentially in the red, once her campaign’s outstanding [...]
March 22nd, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Democratic News, Elections, Hillary Clinton . Author: G . Comments: 2 Comments
Yet another sleazy scandal from the Republican Regime. From WTEA TV’s The Pittsburgh Channel:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the passport files of both Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama were accessed without authorization by employees of the State Department.
News organizations this morning were reporting that Sen. Barack Obama’s passport files [...]
March 21st, 2008
Categories: Democratic News, Elections, Republicans, Strange, White House . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Chicago Alderman Richard Mell stands to take a chunk of a $15 million trial judgment, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Mell is not talking about the case, Cement-Lock v. Gas Tech. Institute, and the Sun-Times had little success turning up anything too specific. Mell’s attorneys, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP, who also [...]
March 20th, 2008
Categories: Chicago, Legal . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
What can I say? I’m told by some that 3,992 American soldiers dead in Iraq is not a bad number. After all, there were many more people killed in World War II. I should just accept that number. Is that a just comparison? Is the war in Iraq at all just?
But this one [...]
March 20th, 2008
Categories: International, Iraq, Philosophical . Author: G . Comments: No Comments