A Knight in Dragonland

What Obama said to the Muslim world in his inaugural address, he could have just as well said to the Republican Party, “People will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.”

Cenk Uygur, of the Young Turks, at HuffPo.
Like I’ve said before … G.O.P., it’s easy to sit back and fling poo, [...]

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59-0.
About freaking time!!!

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The Pekin Times ran an article today about the Facebook group promoting Frank Mackaman for governor of Illinois. I am a proud member.
Yeah, yeah … Pat Quinn gets the job if Blago gets canned. We know that. But what about Mackaman 2010???

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In my last post I stated that it would be great if Frank Mackaman was chosen as the next Mayor of Pekin.
Forget that!!! I mean, he’d be great as mayor again. However, there’s a much more important office for him to take on, assuming Blago gets his just desserts … governor of Illinois!
Mackaman [...]

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Republicans need to quit this “guilt by association” nonsense brought on by the national focus on Blago and figure out what they stand FOR …
It’s not fiscal conservatism. They supported the most massive expansion of government since LBJ and ran our government by running up the national credit card.
It’s not social conservatism, family values [...]

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Not really … but that’s an entertaining thought, isn’t it?
Illinois is experiencing interesting political highs and lows this year. One of our U.S. Senators is elected president, but then our governor is arrested before he can sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.
I “love” this quote in the Tribune from Robert Grant, FBI [...]

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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and [...]

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I want to share my thoughts on Aaron Schock, and why I won’t be voting for him on Tuesday.
Schock’s story is clearly exceptional. He finished his college degree in two years. He was elected to the District 150 school board as a write-in candidate at age 19. He’s been President of the [...]

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BJ Stone asks … what the hell happened to John McCain?
Answer – hubris, the same tragic flaw that felled Achilles in the Iliad.
John McCain is no Achilles. He didn’t stand a chance against the overwhelming power of his own ego.

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Steve Greenberg Cartoons, Ventura County Star.

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[...] the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 SAT words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban [...]

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What we are witnessing may be the greatest destruction of financial wealth that the world has ever seen — paper losses measured in the trillions of dollars. Corporate wealth. Oil wealth. Real estate wealth. Bank wealth. Private-equity wealth. Hedge fund wealth. Pension wealth. It’s a painful reminder that, when you strip away all the complexity [...]

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What does it say about your presidential campaign when Karl Rove, he of the black “love child” rumors during the 2000 South Carolina Republican primary, thinks you’ve gone too far?

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Everyone who has read my posts knows that I can’t stand the current incarnation of the Republican Party. The modern GOP is a far cry from the Party of Lincoln. Their fiscal conservatism is a joke, and their slide toward theocracy is frightening.
However, I’m also quite disappointed in the Democratic Party, especially in [...]

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Governor Sarah Palin my have signed the final death warrant on the already moribund Ketchikan to Gravina Island “Bridge to Nowhere”, but she still supports a project that would cost even more – $400 to $600 million for the Knik Arm Crossing. This project would benefit … (drumroll) … Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, [...]

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