Politics
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Chicago Clout List
I know that this PDF is available over here at the Tribune (thanks, Second City Cop), but they’re notorious for linkrot, so I wanted to post it here to make it available for all. Looking at it makes me think of the poor humans who maintained the damn thing– fun w/ Excel! Chicago Clout List
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Cameraman Paul Douglas is my Final Straw
I really can’t stop thinking about Paul Douglas, the CBS cameraman killed on Memorial Day in Iraq. He is a horribly typical victim of this worthless war. StrongPaul Douglas “had the broad shoulders and thick legs of an American football tight-end or British rugby lineman. But he was quick and agile, and could (and often…
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Dan Rather on His Colleagues Who are Dead and Injured
Dan Rather, a completely unappreciated newsman, recounts his work with two people who died and one who lay in critical condition. This war is taking many. On the outskirts of the city, we had made our way through a maze of trenches, then through dense woods and finally to an overlook to record some heavy…
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The Twenty Percent of Us Who Need to Make Amends
It’s easy for people (like me) who have always disliked our current President to be gleeful at the current news that he has a a 31% approval rating. To me, though, it points out a gaping need for 20% of us to take action and make amends for a mistake made nearly 2 years ago.…
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