Posts from ‘October, 2008’

I have seen this ad multiple times the last few days:

OK, so Marty Ozinga’s concrete company apparently donated about $25,000 to Rod Blagojevich’s campaign the last eight years. That’s bad. Of course, we could question whether Ozinga was simply a victim of Blago’s pay-to-play shakedown.
Still, I have to agree that I agree with [...]

Barack Obama says the credit market’s collapse is proof that free markets don’t work without the government intervening (pay no attention to government intervention that made credit looser than it should have been).
John McCain doesn’t make a strong case that Obama is wrong. Because of that, every employee on McCain’s staff (and McCain himself) will [...]

Via Michael Miner’s “News Bites” comes news that a Chicago-area entrepreneur is working on a short film about Mike Royko.
The film is not set in Chicago, but Bohners Lake, Wis., where Royko and his first wife owned a summer home.
It is also the subject of one of Royko’s greatest columns (if not his greatest).  If [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel wrote a must-read column today looking into Obama’s campaign claims and how they are incredibly unrealistic.
It would be nice if Obama’s opponent could be a little more aggressive and question how Obama’s vision just does not add up. Strassel says it much better:
 We’d like to thank a few people [...]

This upbeat-sounding, although not-entirely-complimentary Randy Newman song blares over the PA system at Dodger Stadium after each home win. Here’s to the real Cubs showing up at Chavez Ravine instead of the pale imitators wearing pinstripes at Wrigley Field the last couple of days.
It’s difficult to stay upbeat when the Cubs haven’t given much [...]