? /Journal Star/: Namesake city may build giant Lincoln

/A towering 305-foot monument of the 16th president - as tall as the
Statue of Liberty - has been proposed in this namesake city of about
15,000 people, which Lincoln christened years before his rise into
[...]

… and Phil Luciano lets him get away with it, and disrespects his employee and a colleague at the same time.
Apparently, the national media — at at least Matt Drudge — has picked up the story of a solider who charged with resisting arrest when he refused to give his camcorder to Peoria Police Chief [...]

From a national defense standpoint, John Kerry is the least offensive of those Democratic candidates who have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning the Dem nomination. Joe Lieberman is, of course, not particularly offensive at all on this issue, but he will not be the nominee. Clark is a tool for Hillary Clinton. And [...]

At 7:53 p.m. Central time, with roughly one-third of caucuses counted,
Howard Dean has just 17.7 percent of the vote in Iowa. John Kerry has
37.1 percent, followed by John Edwards, with 33 percent.
That couldn’t possibly be true! Dean is the Annointed One!
Could the media have been *gasp* /wrong?/
Numbers via Des Moines Register .

http://www.angelfire.com/blog/peoriapundit/images/geller.jpgFrom E!
Online :
/Psychic Uri Geller defending Jackson on Sunday, telling Israel’s
Army Radio that his popster pal denied allegations that he had
sexually abused children after being hypnotized. “He answered me
under deep hypnosis that he had never touched a child in [...]

… over at Romenesko , here
and here
.
If you want to know why Black’s employees were so miserable, read this
:
/I never laid eyes on Lord Black on his infrequent visits to our
city and this newspaper.
I seem to recall once spotting his wife, Barbara [...]

So my page is taking a little too long to load today. Sorry about the
wait. Their Website isn’t even up.
*UPDATE:* Yes it is, and my site loads quickly now. We now return to our
usual programming.

Journal Star: Soldier arrested while filming fight
Army Spc. DeMarcus McNeil called the profanities he lobbed at a man demanding he turn over his camcorder during a fight at a high school basketball game Friday night a reaction.
He didn’t realize he had just cussed out Peoria Police Chief John Stenson.
Now he will return to military duty [...]

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It seems so, according to this BBC Online profile
:
/The Barclays seem to be prudent proprietors, however.
They do not intend to sit on Hollinger’s board, and have in the past
always been willing to cede management control to trusted
professionals.
[...]

http://www.artoosnews.com/images/kirk-spock.jpgPriceline.com has hired
Leonard Nimoy to join William Shatner
to tout the company’s new services in a
series of television ads. Why?
/”Star Trek” fans have long debated which actor was more responsible
for the show’s success. The commercial aims to send the message that
with Priceline [...]

Here is what little information I could find about the potential new
owners of
Hollinger International and the /Chicago Sun-Times/. Their biggest
newspaper appears to be The Scotsman .
I couldn’t discern any overt political stance or bias in the newspaper
from my quick reading of their front page or their editorial page.
/Financial Times/ has this

to say:
[...]

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? /Chicago Tribune/: Hollinger hits Black, with suit, pink slip

/Newspaper baron Conrad Black was fired Saturday night as chairman
of Hollinger International Inc. after the board of directors filed a
lawsuit alleging that he and top deputies looted the company that
owns [...]

? From rodeo to hockey, Civic Center kept busy

/Starting last weekend, an estimated 75,000 people were expected to
attend Civic Center events over 10 days.
From sporting events to the symphony to David Copperfield’s magic
show on Tuesday, those headed to the [...]

It’s been far too long since I linked to a post from the Anti-Idiotarian
Rottweiler. This post about the difference between Windows and Mac OS
users is worthy
of linkage.
/I’m a Windoze user, and you’ll find me bitching, kvetching and
pissing all over the place over the bugs, user-unfriendliness and
[...]

I hear that /Journal Star / Publisher Public John
McConnell distributed free copies of Bernard Goldberg’s new book
“Arrogance”

in the newsroom.
“Arrogance,” like Goldberg’s previous book “Bias,” portrays the media as
biased toward the so-called left.
I didn’t read the book, so I can’t judge it on its merits.
I don’t dismiss it as do Goldberg’s detractors. I don’t embrace it, [...]