I can’t go into details, but my impression is that the whole mess started because the governor had been considering appointing a political rival, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, to the Senate so she wouldn’t be able to run against him when he went up for re-election in 2010. Apparently, Obama’s people weren’t happy about the idea of Madigan coming to Washington, and there were some pretty heated conversations between

Claudia Rosett’s take on Blago’s Kipling quotation: If …. Kipling Only Knew If you can keep your job while all about you Are fielding bribes and blaming it on you, If you can duck the Feds while all men doubt you, And bleep-ing show the charges are untrue, If you can fight and not be tired by fighting, Or, being wiretapped, profess surprise, Or argue that there will be no

Over at Power Line, B. Goldwater has the story of a whistleblower blog about ACORN (and SEIU): “According to a meeting held between ACORN staff, and members in Chicago on July 19th 2008, Mesirow Financial was hired by the ACORN Board to ‘conduct a thorough review of CCI’s financial management and controls, make whatever recommendations they see fit….’ “During the 3 day board meeting that began on December 12th 2008

I saw these slippers at Claire’s, where I went to collect my daughter at the mall yesterday (another nightmare that I don’t particularly want to relive), for $16.

Stoking teh star-maker machinery behind the popular blog. OUTRAGE: No Liz Stephans

Australian and New Zealand researchers have used ancient DNA from penguin fossils to make a startling discovery that may change the way we view species extinctions. A team from the University of Adelaide, the University of Otago and Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, has identified a previously unknown penguin species while conducting research on New Zealand’s endangered yellow-eyed penguin, one the world’s rarest penguin species and the subject of an

Today: Hi: 21° Snow developing by late morning. Snow may be heavy at times this afternoon. Snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches. Highs around 16. Southeast winds around 10 mph this morning…becoming light and variable. Chance of snow near 100 percent. Lo: 16° Snow until midnight…then snow likely after midnight. Areas of blowing snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times until midnight. Additional snow accumulation of 2

Larisa Alexandrovna had been communicating with Mr. Connell on a story about potential election skullduggery in Ohio in 2004, and he had reported being threatened. I haven’t read the story in detail yet, but I thought that it was important that at least (another) righty blog post on the subject. Read the story, which in my opinion is balanced, if perhaps a bit paranoid, and rather than snark away, bring

The MSM have decided that the disgruntled al-Sadr and Che worshipping Iraqi journalist “tossed” his shoes at Bush, “tossing” being the functional equivalent of the softball questions typically lobbed at, for example, President-Elect O! Personally, I think he “wung” them at Bush (“hurled” being a little histrionic, don’t you think?), because I like wing-tips. Of course, he might have “flung” them at Bush, and it’s perfectly possible that our Muslim

Steven Chu is Obama’s nominee for Energy Secretary. Here’s what he thinks about gas prices:gas prices In a sign of one major internal difference, Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work. “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Mr.