Obama can “do the right thing” if he chooses. I met Barack Obama shortly after his 2004 landslide election to Illinois’ U.S. Senate seat. He was standing in the parking lot of the Rockford (IL) Register Star’s News Tower, alone. He’d just come down — likely to sneak a smoke — from his meeting with [...]
View PostIf the Susan G. Komen foundation board can reverse its tone-deaf decision to pull grant funding from Planned Parenthood, then the Obama administration can say “oops, we goofed” and rethink its decision mandating religious organizations include contraception in their employee insurance plans. I think health insurance plans — public and private — should cover contraception. [...]
View PostIllinois voters ought to be able to tell the nation a couple of things about governance by charisma, ego and brilliance run amok. After all, we danced with Rod Blagojevich for a lot of years before the ex-governor flamed out while selling Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. None was better than Blago in front of [...]
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