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Entries from April 2008

Barack Isn’t Mean Enough

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Remember the buzz about Senator Barack Obama not being black enough to run as the African American candidate for president? Obviously that wasn’t true as the primaries have shown.
But he obviously is not mean enough to fight the same dirty campaign Hillary Clinton would like to draw him into. As Bill Clinton said the [...]

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The State Department Gets Something Very Right

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments

People have taken issue with my blogs because I take so many pot shots at the folks in our Federal government. Part of the reason is that I’m a Baby Boomer and that’s how we see the government … Viet Nam and Watergate. And besides, they keep giving me so much ammunition.
Be that as it [...]

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Christopher Walkin Makes History on SNL

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

As a Chicagoan, I grew up on the likes of John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Gilda Radner who all spent time at Second City here before hitting the stage at Saturday Night Live in the 70s. Way too often I laughed till I cried.
The last ten years or so I must simply be getting old [...]

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Only in Illinois - Cell Phone Jay Walkers Beware

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Only in Illinois, a state that seems to be able to put more governors in the slammer than any other - George Ryan a Republican went to jail this year for corruption - and who knows how many before Ryan - don’t ask about after Ryan, at least not yet - could we come up [...]

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