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This could be your chance to make the big leagues. After six years of lurid publicity, the defense has suddenly unearthed a surprise witness. After six years of delays, the defense claims a witness called them today, for the first time.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times:
Testimony from a woman who says she had a sexual encounter [...]
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan received bleak news today as the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. According to the Sun-Times:
Ryan was convicted in April 2006 of steering contracts to lobbyists and other friends, tax fraud, misuse of tax dollars and state workers and squelching an investigation of links between bribery [...]
A group of students at Ohio’s Oberlin College are demonstrating leadership in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. With so many efforts to educate the public about global warming being dismissed as political stunts by liberals, it’s nice to see common sense thinking from our young people.
The New York Times highlights one effort at a [...]
The Pittsburgh Channel sent a newsflash indicating that Senator Edward Kennedy was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital after falling ill at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. Kennedy, 76, spent two hours in the emergency room before being transported via MedFlight helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
CNN reported Kennedy had symptoms [...]
Gays and lesbians will soon have the irrefutable right to marry. It’s inevitable. Even John Roberts’ Supremes won’t be able to stop it as a matter of law.
Today California’s Supreme Court ruled that state laws prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages violate state constitutional rights of gay people. The 4-3 opinion came [...]
According to Ilya Sheyman at TrueMajority.org, the U.S. House of Representatives has just voted 149 to 141 to cut off funding for the war in Iraq. According to Sheyman, “This was followed by votes to put significant restrictions on President Bush’s war policy, including a timeline for withdrawal, and creating a new GI Bill [...]
Barack Obama called reporter Peggy Agar “Sweetie,” and now he’s apologizing for it. That bodes well for America. We have yet to hear the first apology from George “Great job, Brownie” Bush.
This is all absurd, yet another sanctimonious diversion from real-world issues.
Saying “Sweetie” is so “Chicago” of Senator Obama.
I moved here from Pittsburgh in [...]
The alerts just started pouring in from the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and others:
John Edwards will endorse Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, a spokeswoman for the Obama campaign said.
This is tremendous news for the Democrats, and should seal the deal for Obama.
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With one grand jury investigation currently investigating the use of Country Club Hills firefighters to demolish a pool house at the home of Mayor Dwight Welch, the Sun-Times reports Mayor Welch continues to turn his nose up at the taxpayers of Country Club Hills with a $27,000 weekend training seminar for “some aldermen, department heads [...]
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 way things are.” When Stroger was running [...]
