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Reagan also slashed deductions and tax credits. As self employed, my taxes went up after the Reagan tax cuts.
Obama explains
A reported exchange from the Presidential bus tour: "Emily," speaking to Presient Obama at a town-hall style meeting in Paosta, Iowa: When you ran for office you built a tremendous amount of trust with the American people, that you seemed like someone who wouldn’t move the bar on us. And it se...
I want to see this explained to the child.
"We decided that we didn't want two more kids, so we flipped a coin and you won."
A new, touchy hot-topic in the abortion debate
From Slate: According to Sunday's New York Times Magazine, demand is rising for "reduction" procedures in which a woman carrying twins keeps one and has the other aborted. Since twin pregnancies are generally safe, these abortions are largely elective. Across the pro-choice blogosphere...the ar...
What's the difference between Blago and Quinn? They're both liars, Quinn hands out high paying, do nothing jobs for votes. If he gets campaign contributions from Motorola Solutions, Sears, etc. he will prove to be as crooked as Blago. We can only hope if he does that he will continue the march to prison.
The argument for Blago that Blago can’t give
The best case I can make in defense of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn’t a legal one by any stretch, but it goes something like this: Oh, come on! Our entire, money-choked political system is sustained by the relentless pursuit of self-interest by organizations, businesses ideologues and...
I don't recall Palin filing to run for president.
Tony, Tony, Tony!
It's hard to remember a worse effort at crisis management than the way New York Congessman Anthony Weiner has dealt with his Twitter problem. Salon reports: Reporters predictably found it odd that Weiner -- whose office has said he was the victim of a hack -- refused to answer several basic ques...
Chicago has now taken control of Will county. Our votes will no longer count for at least the next 10 years when it comes to the US rep vote.
Offensive images below
The map, below, of the proposed new U.S. Congressional districts in Cook and collar counties is very disturbing. It was drawn by Democrats in order to make trouble for Republican opponents, for the most part (See Rick Pearson's analysis here) . And though I realize that Republicans would have dr...
That failed mission was not the only reason that Carter lost. He made no further attempts to rescue those people.
The other reasons that he lost were double digit inflation and interest rates. The only people that liked him were retired with CDs.
The worst president of my lifetime.
Webliography: Operation Eagle Claw
Assocrted sources on the failed hostage-rescue mission in Iran in April, 1980, The Atlantic (2006) "The Desert One Debacle," From USA Today: Jimmy Carter: Iran hostage rescue should have worked: Carter mostly blamed his election loss on his failure to win the release of U.S. hostages held capti...
Wendy, you mean the CPS teachers, right? They're the ones who demand to get paid for working 15 more minutes, see the 3/3/2011 note.
On the clock, calendar -- How long have Chicago students spent in school?
News clips from the Tribune archives on the issue of the length of the school day and the school year. (For a Webliography on this issue, click here) Do any of you with long memories recall other changes? Feb. 11, 1954: Supt. Benjamin C. Willis told the board of education he will recommend at i...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/philadelphia-abortion-doctor-accused-killing-babies-scissors-charged/story?id=12649868
One of the right-wing crackpot sites is Abc news.
Dienne, I don't believe that abortion should be illegal because of the back alley options. But I don't understand the problem with sanitary conditions.
Illinois House rejects new abortion regulations
The bill would have required clinics that provide abortions to meet the same standards that apply to hospital facilities that perform outpatient procedures. Republican Rep. Darlene Senger said her bill was simply meant to ensure abortion clinics are safe. But opponents claimed the goal was to b...
Wendy would rather have clinics like the one in Philadelphia. That way you can have abortion and euthanasia in the same place at a two for one sale price.
Illinois House rejects new abortion regulations
The bill would have required clinics that provide abortions to meet the same standards that apply to hospital facilities that perform outpatient procedures. Republican Rep. Darlene Senger said her bill was simply meant to ensure abortion clinics are safe. But opponents claimed the goal was to b...
Do you get paid extra for pushing this multiple times a day?
ZORN REPLY -- No, I'm just promoting it once a day as it launches in hopes of alerting readers to what I consider a pretty useful collection of links in the morning. In part because I am among those who encouraged Jim to make this daily memo public and I want it to succeed.
Morning memo -- Wednesday
Batman dumps Chicago, DWTS dumps Wendy Williams, Chuck Goudie scoop, Diane Sawyer on why she's #1 in Chicago, Top Cars for Teens and how Illinois might be hit by Toyota shutdown As previously: Now you can get a version of the previously internal "Morning memo" sent around Tribune Tower every w...
---Addictions are not diseases. That's just PC nonsense.
Arizona targets obese, smoking Medicaid recipients
From the Wall Street Journal: Arizona's governor on Thursday proposed levying a $50 fee on some enrollees in the state's cash-starved Medicaid program, including obese people who don't follow a doctor-supervised slimming regimen and smokers.... Some companies have insurance surcharges for empl...
Yes Wendy, I believe that administrator's pay should be cut. There should also be less of them. If that was done, there would be more money for students with no need to raise taxes.
Smaller school districts should be consolidated, that's districts not schools. One of the few things that I agree with Quinn.
As a state legislator, Lincoln tried to play the 'run away' game, too
Events in Wisconsin -- particularly the indignation of Republicans who are now seething at the Democratic state senator's parliamentary trick of running away to avoid a legislative quorum -- prompts me to reprint this passage from "Did Lincoln Own Slaves? And other frequently asked questions ab...
Yea, nothing like a promo about a doctor who's a drug addict.
Are we playing into Groupon's hands?
I thought this promo was the best ad from the Super Bowl, yet it hasn't appeared in any of the best-of reviews Meanwhile, here are the two Groupon ads people aren't talking about: And the one that's been front-page news: ...prompting me to suggest that, just maybe, the planning meeting sound...
Dienne, you are correct. He claimed to have created the internet. See snopes.com.
Space case
Sarah Palin with Fox News Channel's Greta Greta Van Susteren after President Obama's State of the Union speech when the conversation turned to Obama's reference to the "Sputnik Moment." Palin on the "Sputnik Moment" Transcript: That was another one of those "WTF?" moments. When he has so often ...
You constantly leave out property taxes. This is what funds the schools, not income / sales tax. Ours is high.
A little light reading on Election Day
Highlights from FUNDING OUR FUTURE --Reforming Illinois Tax Policy (.pdf), an 84-page report released Friday by the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability: (The) inability of the voting public to connect the taxes they pay to the services they demand and consume is one key reason tax policy ...
What's the difference between Hendon's comments and Obama telling a Hispanic audience that they need to punish there enemies (republicans)?
The Prickly Pair, now with more Phil Rosenthal: Quinn, Hendon & Dish Network
We're going to need a new drawing now that Phil Rosenthal has apparently agreed to join us on a regular basis. Today we discussed Pat Quinn's failure to adequately and, most importantly, quickly repudiate State Sen. Rickey Hendon's remarks when Hendon preceded Quinn to the stage at a Saturday...
ZORN REPLY -- Links, please. I'm using the same internet you are to find these numbers. The total debt and pension burdens are staggering here, we all know that, but even WITH that we're ahead of these states in many meaningful areas.
Please name one meaningful area other than corruption and patronization.
Hoosier daddy Volunteers a strange comparison
Filed under $#*! Bill Brady says: If the viewers are happy with the way Illinois is going, elect Pat Quinn. But if you want an Illinois that looks more like an Indiana or a Tennessee --- a state that can turn the page -- we need new leadership in Springfield....from Wednesday night's gubernatori...
Jim, apparently that includes Mr. Zorn.
Hoosier daddy Volunteers a strange comparison
Filed under $#*! Bill Brady says: If the viewers are happy with the way Illinois is going, elect Pat Quinn. But if you want an Illinois that looks more like an Indiana or a Tennessee --- a state that can turn the page -- we need new leadership in Springfield....from Wednesday night's gubernatori...
Nobody sees satire in this?
Not a serious email!
Food-stamp follow up
Laurel W. of Evanston takes issue with my endorsement of a plan to limit further the sorts of items that food-stamp recipients can purchase: Normally I like your column but this week it made my blood boil. Thanks for wanting to add to my already stressful life being unemployed and the parent of...
--Giannoulias also showed his incompetence in managing the college savings program.
I'm not happy with what Kirk said about his military service but, at least he did serve.
Giannoulias consistently vague about his job at the bank
Democratic State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias was adamant. "There have been no inconsistencies in what I've said," he told the Tribune editorial board during Monday's joint appearance with the three other U.S. Senate candidates in next month's election. "I've said from the beginning that I lef...
--Dienne, do you mean invading, as in freeing Kuwait from Iraq?
'I think the hug lacked dignity. It did not send a message of American power and forcefulness'
The image of the President of the United States hugging another man had conservative scribe Lawrence Kudlow all a flutter. No, not this one: And not this one: But this one: "I think the hug lacked dignity," Kudlow wrote. "It did not send a message of American power and forcefulness...Why ...
Quin is incompetent, a lair (Rod is an honest man) and after seeing the proposed deal to sell / lease the lottery, I'm not sure that he's honest.
Please tell me the benefit of the DOE, both state and federal. It seems like a feel good department that sucks up money that could go to actual education.
You can say that you want to eliminate abortion, but everybody knows it's not going to happen.
Can 'Gov. Cowardly Lion' roar back?
Jell-O just sits there and quivers, timidly waiting until greater forces devour it. Gov. Pat Quinn, in contrast, swaggers boldly into controversy, declaring and thumping his chest. Only later does he begin to quiver and allow greater forces to devour him. This key difference is why I reject ...
And now Quinn is pulling a George Ryan.
Ouch!
The guy wouldn’t recognize a campaign theme if it was bleeding to death on his front lawn.... Rich Miller on Gov. Pat Quinn's political woes Quite a vivid advance on the old saying that X wouldn't recognize Y if it bit him in the rear end. But accurate, I suspect. This campaign looks more and m...
When somebody writes something in a book, it must be true.
Searched
“I detect a strong odor of alcohol,” he says sarcastically. “Looks like you’ve been drinking. Now it looks like I have my ‘probable cause.’ See how that works? Outta the car.”.... author Charles Shaw, describing a 2004 encounter with Chicago Police Dept. officers in the latest installment of his ...
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