September 30, 2010 – 2:20 pm
. . . because they created so many of them. **Illinois poverty rate rose 24% from 1999 to 2009 **581,000 more children are living below the poverty line now than a decade ago **2 million Illinoisians are now considered low income, which is 17% of the population **Extreme poverty up 6.0% What is the cure [...]
September 30, 2010 – 1:45 pm
“Should it be determined that any aspect or aspects of [any] legislation were promoted and passed by means of deceitful and untrue representations and means, this legislation will become void, those guilty of misrepresentation in promoting public legislation will be removed from office and imprisoned for a term no less than the intended life of [...]
September 30, 2010 – 1:26 pm
. . . paraphrased: No liberal has standing to call any Republican stupid as long as Phil Hare remains in the U.S. House of Representatives.
September 30, 2010 – 12:01 pm
Maybe stenography “journalism” is sufficient in some cases, but it certainly is not during trying times and heated elections. The Hare-Dispatch provides a classic example of how useless this he said/he said “reporting” really is. The subject is the dispute between Schilling and Hare about a host of issues—Korean Free Trade Agreement, “stimulus”, Cap and [...]
September 30, 2010 – 10:13 am
Snappy repartee from last night’s candidate forum with Democrat Dennis Ahern and Republicans Rich Morthland and Mark Lioen: Dennis Ahern on lawmakers south of I-80 and west of I-39 being “mushrooms: “We’re fed a bunch of manure and , at the end of the legislative season, we’re told how to vote.” This from a Democrat [...]
September 29, 2010 – 11:06 am
Chris Cilliza: “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved time in Davenport, Iowa, and the Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Ill., media markets—likely for Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill). Hare is perhaps the biggest surprise among members the DCCC has spent money on thus far, but recent GOP polling has shown him in the 30s.” I’ll bet it was a [...]
September 28, 2010 – 11:25 am
From Roger Davis at last night’s NAACP forum at the UAW hall in East Moline: “I am the only candidate who wants to be your employee, not your boss.” I wasn’t at this event, but from the H-D account it seems most of the discussion was about “Social Security, taxes, health care, the economy and [...]
September 28, 2010 – 10:59 am
Hare Had Obama In His Basement
September 27, 2010 – 3:11 pm
“Amid the huge backlog of bills and unpaid pension obligations, [Illinois] also has borrowed more than $2.2 billion from the federal government to pay out unemployment benefits to laid-off workers. And now, the bill for that borrowing—an estimated $250 million in interest is about to come due. . .” Convince me why I should vote [...]
September 27, 2010 – 1:51 pm
Delivering a robust answer to the timeless question “what liberal media?”, today the QCTimes presented a front page story headlined: Sex Offender Struggles With New Life In The Q-C In a sympathetic portrait of a confessed and convicted child molester, we learn that he spent 13 years in prison for molesting an 11 year old [...]
