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The U.S. Supreme Court overruled a lower federal court’s ruling and said that absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s April 7 Spring Election must be postmarked by Election Day in order to be counted. The Court did not change the April 13 deadline as the final day for counting absentee ballots.

.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj-xqbMdrSY This is what we have to think like Thunderstruck.

This is the garbage going out on a daily basis from OFA This is what we are dealing with Myles, a 7-year-old from Milwaukee, wrote Vice President Biden a letter to suggest that if guns shot chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt. The Vice President wrote back. Take a look at his response, then share it with your friends: Dear Myles -- I am sorry it took me so very long to respond to your letter. I really like your idea. If we had guns that shot chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier....

Dear Speaker Boehner To paraphrase Dean Wormer in Animal House: "tan drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

HAMMOND | Former Lake County Clerk Thomas Philpot was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday for stealing thousands of dollars in public child support incentive funds over which he had control. Philpot, who also served as Lake County coroner, was ordered to surrender April 3 to a federal correctional camp in Pekin, Ill. Federal defendants usually serve at least 85 percent of their sentence, which means Philpot likely will spend at least 15 months in prison. Senior U.S. District Court Judge James Moody asked himself out loud, why did Philpot, an intelligent, well-trained man familiar with the proper workings...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNtJ41A_rLA Can anyone overlay a Gadsen Flag on this video?

Chicago, August 11, 2011 – This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservative reporter – me – showed up to ask an embarrassing question. Namely, “Senator, you’ve blamed the tea party…but do you bear any responsibility for this downgrade crisis?” Video at link posted

| A Schererville woman who was shot in the head Sunday on Chicago's Southeast Side died at the hospital Monday morning. Her father was placed in intensive care after suffering a medical problem while he was en route Sunday to where she was hospitalized. Holly Hieber, 26, was shot a little after 9:15 p.m. Sunday in a garage in the 11100 block of South Ewing Avenue, Chicago police said. She died Monday morning at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., the Cook County medical examiner's office said. Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/schererville/article_6e641594-9cb7-5b65-ac2d-8e181beb4e20.html#ixzz1S2pZQFqA

Buh Bye Foster Another Obamacare dembot.

Time to pump it up The "Ultimate Tea Party Starts 11/02/10 Message below for "Esteemed Sens. McConnell, Lugar, Graham. McCain, Snowe, Collins, Scott ad nauseum.. NO MORE Listen Below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1LXhgXPWs

Battle of the sewer rats going on. Kirk has edge since Gianoulias is real slime

Daley announces he will not seek re election

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Pres Truman Thank you for the hard decisions that allowed my grandpa to live

Reports Bob Probert has passed away Rest in Peace 24

Given the pressures and volume observed, does this blowout indicate a significant find?

HAMMOND | Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said Tuesday he is running for U.S. Senate and may already have backing from at least two of the party leaders whose support he will need to be named the Democratic nominee for Sen. Evan Bayh's seat. Bayh, D-Ind., announced Monday he won't run for re-election, and no Democrat met Tuesday's deadline to submit the 4,500 signatures necessary to get on the primary ballot. The 32-member Democratic State Central Committee will meet sometime before June 30 to pick a nominee to run against the Republican primary winner in the fall. Three of those committee...

Computers with Blagojevich evidence stolen from law firm

The public is being warned to avoid downtown Chicago expressways after pavement was damaged during construction work on the northbound Kennedy Expressway at Adams Street. "We're advising people to stay off the downtown expressways for the next 24 hours," said Marisa Kollias, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Transportation. "This is a major crisis." Workers were pumping concrete into an underground freight tunnel this morning when "pressure made the road erupt," according to an IDOT dispatcher. Two right lanes of the northbound Kennedy have been closed. It was not known how long the lanes would be shut down. The...

HAMMOND | Early voting satellite centers in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago will remain open following a Wednesday ruling in Lake Superior Court. In her ruling, Judge Diane Kavadias-Schneider struck down Republican efforts to have the satellite voting locations deemed illegal and shut down. The judge granted a petition by Democrats and the United Steelworkers union to keep the sites open on grounds the centers provide better access to early voting to minority communities, which don't have the time or transportation to reach the early voting center