http://oil.dailyillinois.net What if America was governed just like Illinois? Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:50:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A minor story, that should be a larger indication of what Barack will spend money and how he oversee the use of those public funds, is making the rounds today. Good. One more notch to get people to wake up and realize that Barack Obama is the Paris Hilton of ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/07/11/barack-obama-and-wasted-subsidies/ Access’ Obama Interview Sparks Great Debate - Access Hollywood I don't know that I'd call the debate great, but other media types are talking about it. Its just another flip flop from Obama, saying his family is off limits and then using them like this. And Obama used them well, I ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/07/10/barack-obama-and-maria-menounos/ Jackson apologizes for crude comment about Obama - Pantagraph In a video aired Wednesday night on the Fox News program "The O'Reilly Factor," Jackson leans over and whispers to fellow panelist Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, executive vice president and chief of medical affairs for UnitedHealth Group, "See, Barack been, um, talking ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/07/10/barack-obama-and-being-an-elitist/ Marin says it all - Capitol Fax Blog Odds long for constitutional convention - Chicago Sun-Times Blagojevich hates Madigan. Madigan hates him back. And despises Senate President Emil Jones, who despises Madigan back. All Democrats, all dysfunctional, all the time. Meanwhile, citizens, fed up with being bystanders in this car wreck of a ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/07/09/barack-obama-is-ignoring-illinois-problems/ A lot of money has passed around between Allison Davis and Barack Obama and Mayor Daley and William Moorehead and Tony Rezko. One place the money didn't end up was to fix an iron gate before it fell on a little boy. We get more evidence about my conjecture that ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/07/02/barack-obama-and-accountability-to-taxpayers/ "Curtis Cooper, 3, was killed Friday when a heavy iron gate collapsed and fell on him as he was riding his tricycle." What does that have to do with Barack Obama? The Chicago Housing Authority complex where 3 year old Curtis Copper died is run by Cullen Davis. Son of Allison ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/06/30/barack-obama-and-the-children/ Hyde Park is Barack Obama's neighborhood. The home of the University of Chicago and birth of the atomic bomb. It's also the home of the late Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman, and the Chicago School of economics. Hyde Park "progressives", as they like to call themselves now, have long hated ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/06/29/barack-obama-and-the-neighborhood/ Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy - Boston Globe By Binyamin Appelbaum, Globe Staff / June 27, 2008 This article is on the cusp of, if not at the level of award winning journalism. (Thanks to Reverse Spin.) If only the author was ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/06/28/barack-obama-and-the-poor/ Barack Obama's biggest campaign contributor as he climbed the political ladder in Chicago was Tony Rezko. New files recently released after Rezko's conviction for corruption tells us that "(T)he Illinois senator was the recipient of "straw" campaign contributions made by others on behalf of Rezko..." Yet we have this statement from ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/06/27/barack-obama-and-corruption-2/ Should government take taxes out of individual's paychecks who make less than, say, $25,000 per year? No, they are poor, you say? The government does, in D.C. and Illinois. And if you are self-employed, its usually a lot more than the 7.65% employers are forced to match with equal payment, ... http://oil.dailyillinois.net/2008/06/15/barack-obama-and-taxes/