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Anyone care to wager or speculate on whether Gov. Walker of Wisconsin will win another term. I can't help but feel that he's absolu...

The intrigue in Wisconsin these days is interesting in the extreme, and the reaction to it is even moreso. I will be baffled until my dying ...

Scattered pictures, Of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another For the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then?...

Obama gave a barn-burner of a non-state of the union state of the union address last night, as you no doubt are aware. The speech was roundl...

The Moline Public Library is featuring a local professor in a presentation about the New Deal era works programs Works Progress Administrati...

With all the Republican theatre of the absurd lately over their "Just say no" campaign in trying to stymie and delay any attempt a...

Local Congressman Phil Hare scored quite the media coup Friday evening by appearing for an interview with Rachel Maddow, whose show on MSNBC...

Yep. Seems we did. Why? Apparently on the grounds that nobody in the legislature liked him, and in light of the fact that his nemesis, Speak...

OK, the story so far... Federal prosecutor Fitzgerald rushes a criminal complaint full of juicy allegations and stuff from wiretaps on Gov. ...

I realize the massive inauguration days in D.C. are nearly old news in our short attention span culture, and I've been tardy in doing th...

With the din of the crowds still ringing in their ears, the Obama administration hit the ground running. High level staff were driven in van...

Stuff I noticed while watching endless hours of coverage of the Inauguration festivities, mostly on MSNBC. - Chris Matthews is whacked. What...

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