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Remember when Kanye West said Bush hates black people? I'm sure he's gonna get nominated for some Grammys. The only way people can hear US talking not WEST is if we boycott his music. How could we notice the Dixie Chicks statement and NOT Kanye West? Let's treat him the way we did the Dixie Chicks!

The best example of Chavez as a sleazy “turnaround when politically correct” leader is his stance on Iraq. While he now occasionally condemns Saddam Hussein’s regime, a few years ago he preferred to act cozy in Baghdad. During talks with the former Iraqi dictator to discuss the oil economy in 2000, he had elaborate photo ops taking a ride in Saddam’s Mercedes and hanging out at the Hussein palaces. “Imagine, he took me on a ride in Baghdad while he was driving the car,” he sweetly told the press. At the rally last week, Chavez named off his political role...

To say that the Chicago Tribune’s front page is coordinated with its editorial page is such a gross understatement. One need only remember the hatchet job of GOP Senatorial candidate Jack Ryan last year. Today, the Tribune’s front page signals an editorial rejection of Justice Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court. Abortion is the theme of both of the stories in the right-hand two stories.

Illinois Leader has ceased to exist. Don't believe me? Visit IllinoisLeader.com. It appears blank.

Wheeeew, came across this on a blog [GapersBlock.com]. That sound was my sigh of relief. I voted O'Malley in 2002, will do it in 2006. I want all Freepers to get on his case to run. I support this fan page. Patrick O'Malley supporters should rally for anything which allows him to win.

Michael Schiavo has said he hopes the autopsy will settle questions about his wife's medical condition, but experts differ on whether that will happen. He declined to comment Friday. Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and Michael Schiavo spent Friday planning separate funerals for the 41-year-old woman, who died Thursday -- nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed.

What is the picture you paint of a young conservative? hat about your idea of a young liberal? The ideas that most people would visualize are far off. Today, Republican young people not only exist, they are more different than you would imagine.

The two remaining members of the inactive Illinois Gaming Board took their complaints about Gov. Rod Blagojevich to state lawmakers Thursday, blasting the governor for hampering the board's work. Board members Gary Peterlin and William Dugan told a House gambling committee that Blagojevich's administration has repeatedly interfered with the board. The administration has handed out contracts and hired board employees without permission, they said. They also complained that Blagojevich used friend and adviser Chris Kelly, who is not on the state payroll, to control negotiations over the fate of a defunct 10th riverboat license. "You're seeing the independence of the...

A judge on Friday extended for three weeks a court order keeping Terri Schiavo's feeding tube in place, the latest in a series of legal developments in the bitter right-to-die case. Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer made his decision after pleadings from the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, that they need more time to pursue additional medical tests which might prove their brain-damaged daughter has more mental capabilities than previously thought. The woman's husband, Michael Schiavo, says he is seeking to carry out his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially.

IL state representative Paul Froehlich has some insights in election fraud in his Reagan Review piece-