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Robin Kelly #IL02 — Candidate of Chicago Machine and Big Out-of-State Money

Posted by Mandy Nagy on March 21, 2013 10 Comments

As the special election heats up in Illinois’ 2nd district, issues such as gun control have elevated the race to one of national significance. Since her primary win, Democratic candidate Robin Kelly’s been MIA, no doubt assuming she’s got this race in the bag. Paul...

Ready to unload

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2013 30 Comments

I should have gone away these few days of the CPAC conference in a deep sea diving bell. CPAC has been a disappointing spectacle to watch from afar, in more than one way. I can’t tell you what it’s done for others, but for me it’s been a real...

Repeat after me again and again: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2013 19 Comments

I just saw a movie review in The Washington Post from last fall regarding Hating Breitbart. I haven’t seen the film (but Anne did, her review is here), so I can’t comment on the review itself, although it does bear an unmistakably snide tone to it,...

Patriot PAC’s Operation Black Storm endorses Paul McKinley in #IL02

Posted by Anne Segal on March 13, 2013 12 Comments

Prior endorsements included Ted Cruz, Allen West, Mia Love, and Tim Scott

Talking smack

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2013 14 Comments

Team Breitbart: We’re going to smack Politico across the face and expose Buzzfeed: Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro took a more bellicose tone, declaring that Breitbart News writers would challenge not only the existing mainstream media for their biased coverage, but also the newer online outlets. “You’ll...

Chicago media’s attempt to “reconvict” Paul McKinley may be backfiring in #IL02

Posted by Anne Segal on March 06, 2013 19 Comments

Paul McKinley never has run from the fact that he is an ex-con. He has been upfront about it, and his story of repentance since he was released in 1998 is part of his narrative of “an ex-offender trying to prevent the next offender” and...

Was SNL’s mocking of Obama’s sequester hysteria a sign of change?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 06, 2013 16 Comments

Or just the lowest hanging fruit of the week?

Paul McKinley launches “Walking Tour of the Machine Destruction” in #IL02

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 02, 2013 14 Comments

He's up against the Chicago Machine, Bloomberg's SuperPAC and Daily Kos fundraisers

#IL02 GOP nominee Paul McKinley’s story of repentance has Chicago Machine worried

Posted by Anne Segal on March 01, 2013 13 Comments

For what they say is a “sure-thing” race for the Democrats, the Machine sure is expending a lot of firepower to attack Republican Paul McKinley in the IL-02 special election coming up on April 9. What are they afraid of? Media outlets are issuing hit...

Republicans nominate reformer ex-con running in #IL02 district famous for electing pre-cons

Posted by Anne Segal on February 27, 2013 8 Comments

It's one Man versus The Chicago-Bloomberg Machine in #IL02

We have Symposiums, they have LOLcats

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 19, 2013 20 Comments

I’m glad that my post, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals, has garnered a fair amount of attention. Mandy Nagy at Breitbart.com, has an interesting history, in response, that we all should consider, Why LOLcats Matter in...

NY Times digital trolling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 15 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting article in this Sunday’s magazine, Can the Republicans be Saved From Obsolescence? There is much to learn from the article about how much more open Democrats are to the digital era, how insular Republican leadership is, and how...

Obama Opens new Campaign with “Organizing for Action”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 13, 2013 15 Comments

I talked to my mother last night, a long-time Democrat who voted for Obama this November. She said that she had tuned out the State of the Union address to pour a class of wine, because it was more of the “same, nasty rhetoric” she...

If only the NY Times paid this much attention to Benghazi

Posted by Anne Segal on February 11, 2013 27 Comments

The New York Times has now mapped all the ways Chicagoans, who arguably have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and only recently were allowed to possess them, get their guns. The maps and accompanying article are an attempt to spin the...

Alan Dershowitz — Point Man

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 20 Comments

I’ve written about Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz before, Alan Dershowitz, Praised: Charles C. Johnson (no, not that that CJ) has a post at Big Government, In Praise of Alan Dershowitz. It’s worth the read, but hardly does justice to someone who for generations...

The real Robert Menendez scandal emerging

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2013 11 Comments

It’s not just about Dominican prostitutes (which he still denies). It’s about questionable business connections, as reported by Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com, The Corrupt Origins of the Melgen-Menendez Dominican Port Security Deal: The saga of the Dominician port security deal that has embroiled Senator Robert...

The Machine revealed: Jesse Jackson Jr “facing significant jailtime” in plea deal

Posted by Anne Segal on February 07, 2013 11 Comments

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. may be “facing significant jailtime” if he accepts a plea deal currently on the table, according to a source quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times. Jesse Jackson, Jr. resigned from Congress last November after a bizarre months-long absence accompanied by rumors...

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