Political Football

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5664018&ft=print
here is an article on Cook County’s proposal to raise their sales tax from 9% to 11%. Illinois and Cook County in particular are heading toward disaster with their tax structure and unfriendly attitude toward business.

Read these notes from prior links
http://www.politicalfootballblog.com/2007/06/06/rants-from-the-looney-left/

I just remember when Tommy Thompson was in town talking about taking jobs from Illinois after the former Governor Jim Thompson of Illinois took jobs from an overtaxed Wisconsin what he called the “Billboard War”.

At the state’s border Jim Thompson put up a billboard leaving Illinois “when you get tired of paying all those taxes in Wisconsin, Governor Thompson would invite you to move to Illinois” When Tommy took office, he lowered taxes and had an identical billboard saying the same thing about Governor Thompson wanting them to now move to Wisconsin — the other Governor Thompson.

The funny yet sad thing is both of those states with Democrat leadership are taxing their citizens terribly; and Iowa is soon to follow suit. We MUST elect more Republicans to the Legislative and Executive branches of government to stop this madness.

Democrats must understand the money has to come from somewhere, you can’t “force” consumers to buy American and if businesses can make more money outside the shores of the United States it’s their right to move. The picture in my head just now is that of a firing squad formed in a circle READY – FIRE – AIM! The lunatics are in fact in control of the asylum.

http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/09/why_drudge_is_a_disgrace_1.html
Why Drudge is a disgrace? I mean he’s gossipy, and sometimes wrong – the above link wants to show evidence that Matt Drudge is biased.

The horror! (actually I think he’s equality excitable on gossip from either side of the aisle…) Drudge is what you want it to be I guess. But it’s a blog. One of the first and widely read. I tell you what, for every BLOG post / Headline – whatever from Drudge that Mr. Klein thinks shows bias I can show you one hundred from the supposed neutral mainstream PRESS who are paid to write in an unbiased, and fact supported articles about world events. see here and here for starters.

There’s a difference between blogs and news reporting, and I’m starting to believe specific blogs like http://powerlineblog.com and the posters at http://littlegreenfootballs.com more because the owners are “policed” by the viewers and they accept that.  The MSM writes biased reports and expect everyone to accept it as truth.

and did you catch this…. more stories that are not getting much mainstream media coverage…
more successes in Iraq

and something’s going on in Syria who’s telling the truth?
Syria: nothing was bombed
UK paper – Israel destroyed Syrian Nuke site

one week later…
Syria Iranian missle test

a Charles Krauthammer article from 9/21 posted below
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/09/middle_east_volcano.html

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