Archive for May, 2011

Dealing with Israel

I suppose Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thought he was being very clever in rejecting President Barack Obama’s recent call to use 1967 boundaries as the basis for resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.

As a…

Politicians in this historically squeaky-clean state of Illinois finally passed that gambling bill in Springfield on Tuesday, which includes the big enchilada, a Chicago casino controlled by City Hall.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will take the next few days…

An effort is underway in Arizona to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce, the primary sponsor behind a controversial anti-illegal immigration law that a federal court struck down in April.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote down legislation Tuesday that would the raise the federal government’s debt limit by approximately $2.4 trillion without requiring any new spending cuts.

Rod Blagojevich was interested in getting something in exchange for naming someone to the U.S. Senate, but only if it was part of a legal political “horse trade,” the former governor said Tuesday on the witness stand at his retrial.

As his testimony…

By now, people in the United States and elsewhere in the world are familiar with the Tea Party, but there’s a new social movement on the political block — it’s called the “Tequila Party,” and its leaders say the group is serving as a wake-up call to the Latino voting bloc.