… Over at Creative Slips
. It
includes my first submission
. The always perceptive
Andrew Cline of the Rhetorica Network will host
next week.

Jeff Trigg is giving
Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich some credit for two smart vetoes
. I
agree with Jeff. Blago deserves a lot of the heat he gets, but not most
of it. Downstate Illinois newspapers will not give him any credit
because he’s a Chicago Democrat. The editorial /Journal Star/ is fixated
on every perceived slight to Peoria and downstate [...]

Today’s /Wall Street Journal/ editorial page on the Alabama courthouse
10 Commandments controversy :
Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, one of the few state officials
providing some adult supervision on the matter, is unpersuaded. “The
rule of law means that no person, including the chief justice of
[...]

John Hawkins at Right Wing News asked
125 bloggers he considers “right of center” to submit a list of the
worst figures of the 20th century. The rankings are available here
. The headline of
the post is: “Conservative Bloggers Select The Worst Figures Of The 20th
Century.”
It was asked to enter. I did not. Why? /Because I am [...]

Boy, there wasn’t much Peoria news in the PEORIA /Journal Star/ this
weekend. All the reporters must have had the weekend off.
*TODAY*
/*JS:*/ Van Winkle may get task of saving Station 11

Buried in this column is a real news item: Seven of the 11 members
of the Peoria City Council [...]

I’m adding Drug WarRant , an excellent
drug policy site run by Pete Guither. He’s already linking to me (under
the category “political blog,” even though the greatest percentage of my
stuff is media criticism).
Like Guither, Antidotal tweaks Fox News
by incorporating the phrase “fair and balanced” in its template. The
site covers crime issues from a liberal perspective. [...]

I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but I never really liked Bobby
Bonds

as a player. For years, I suspected him of dogging it.
He played sevel years for the GIants, then spend the next seven years
bouncing around the bigs for five different teams.
On June 4, 1981, in his first game after being sold to [...]

From the Washington Post
:
Recent drafts of the Victory Act, which carry the names of Sen.
Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and four other Senate Republicans, would
provide extra penalties for drug dealers alleged to be connected to
terrorist groups and would dramatically expand [...]

Now this is
funny. “Heh” indeed.
Via Caerdroia .

Here’s a link to a rather
large PDF file of the proposed bill.
Via Reason mag’s excellent blog, Hit & Run
. Dead-tree media need to start using
their on-line versions this way. Newspapers cannot print the complete
text of bills, but they sure can post them or links to them on the ‘Net.

When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s vetoed

a provision in a death penalty reform law that would make it easier to
easier to prove officers lied in murder trials and strip them of their
jobs, he said he objected to giving cops less rights than criminals.
Wrong. The bill does no such thing:
Blagojevich wants to get [...]

The Policy Guy

blogs about a report

in the /Chicago Sun-Times/ about how there are signs of improvement now
that Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has control over the city’s school
system.
It makes sense, in a way. Daley has made school quality a campaign
issue, and because lack of progress can’t be blamed on other people, he
will be held accountable.
When [...]

Today’s /Journal Star/ carries an article
about a Central
Illinois school district that buys bread products that are baked by
inmates at the Illinois River Correctional Center in Canton.
Parents aren’t concerned about it. The school district obviously isn’t
concerned about it. But the unionized workers at the prison are
concerned about it.
Lonn Howarter, president of [...]

Today’s post is about my ever growing blogroll and encouraging bloggers
to whom I link to start returning the favor.
I’m not going to name names, but there are one or two tall dogs out
there to whom I link both in my blogroll and repeatedly in posts who
could grant me a permanent link, but choose not to [...]

No, I’m not talking about what my diet has done to the size of my butt
(although I am more svelte than I have been in years). I neglected my
Peoria media survey yesterday.
Here it is:
*Today*
/*Journal Star:*/ Businesses, college take steps to avoid ‘worms’

Reporter Steve Tarter should have talked to me. My inbox is being flooded.
/*JS:*/ Inquest [...]