Barring catastrophe, I will be moving to Texas next week so this will be my last post. Over the weekend, I will be shutting down completely. When I started QCE over four years ago, my expectations were modest; I figured I would provide a forum for a few like-minded people who were disgusted and disgruntled [...]
Yet another Democrat wise Latino has announced his candidacy for congress in the 17th CD. Today Greg Aguilar said he was running because “I know the struggles the working class has…” Yes, Greg is a member of the downtrodden by virtue of being director of Augie’s “Multi-Cultural” Services. He makes a point to mention his [...]
…hilarity ensues! A Cook County Circuit judge granted Three County’s request to delay payment of the 2% raises to public employee union members that an arbitrator says is due them as of July l. OK, make sure you don’t have any liquid in your mouth when you read this rationale from Quinn as to why [...]
Stuff White People Like: Republicans; GOP Gaining With Young And Poor Whites
Barack Obama: Franklin Roosevelt was “pretty fiscally conservative”. On the other hand, maybe it isn’t ignorance of history that is Obama’s problem, it could be that when he compares himself to FDR, Roosevelt really WAS “pretty fiscally conservative”.
July 22, 1861: “The excitement in our streets on Monday night in regard to the sad news from Manassas exceeded anything we have ever seen. The crowd was determined to have the news before it went to the printing office.”
In what would normally be a mundane story about the quest for the small town of Carlinville for federal funding to dredge the Carlinville Lake, turned into a full-blown political drama which centers on Carlinville’s public works director Mary Beth Belln, Carlinville’s economic development coordinator Beth Toon and a Bobby Schilling staffer. Bernard Schoenburg dishes [...]
Even though local Democrats like Mike Jacobs and Pat Verschoore crowed that their massive individual and corporate tax increase was “the right thing to do”, clearer heads are seeing this for what it is—a massive job killer. In order mollify the business community, Quinn administration officials and lawmakers (probably not Jacobs or Verschoore) are holding [...]
Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp, a Democrat who is running for 17th CD congressman, explains to the Hare-Dispatch how he expects to win the nomination: “Mr. Gaulrapp said he is glad there are at least two Quad-Cities Democrats running since that should create a better chance of winning for someone in the outlying portions of the [...]
Number 22 on Don Surber’s Daily Scoreboard: 22. From the Atlantic: “There Really Is No Good Way to Advertise Douching Products.” Politicians seem to have no problem.
