Archive for August, 2009

After myriad television appearances, radio shows and news conferences since his arrest on corruption charges, the seemingly omnipresent former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has made the case for his innocence again, this time in a 259-page memoir that offers small…

With the FBI knocking on his door, Rod “Dead Meat” Blagojevich was about to be the first sitting Illinois governor hauled from his house in federal handcuffs.

Yet even in this time of abject panic and fear — as he writes in his new autobiography –…

Here is Rod Blagojevich’s take on several key figures in his political career, according to his new book, “The Governor.” Following are the responses from the individuals.

House Speaker Michael Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan

“I believe the two…

Barbra Streisand may make beautiful music, but she rarely listens to it.

“I don’t understand today’s music,” Streisand acknowledged, adding that she does enjoy some contemporary artists. “I saw John Mayer recently. My God, what a great guitarist and…

Back in April, the U.S. government snatched Raymond Azar out of Afghanistan.

His waist, wrists and ankles were shackled, he was stripped naked and photographed, made to wear headphones, blindfolded, hooded and stuffed into an executive jet and flown to…

Politicians learned long ago that one of the privileges of power is rigging the system to help your party and hurt the other. What they never seem to learn is how easily that trick can backfire. The shackles you fashion for your opponents can wind up on…

Limit guns
I am an African American who voted for President Barack Obama, but I vehemently support gun ownership providing gun owners have no history of felony convictions, no documented history of mental illness, and a brief training period in firearm…

A U.S. military contract that drew fire for creating profiles to rate the output of journalists as well as coverage of the Afghanistan war is being terminated, according to U.S. military officials.