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Opinion: Stimulus Plan Stimulates Trouble for Obama
By John Merline - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- When President Barack Obama promised in February that the $787 billion stimulus bill would unleash "a new wave of innovation, activity and construction," he probably didn't have tidying up gravestones in mind. But that is what some of the money has paid for, along with frozen fish sperm, Taser guns and an ongoing political headache that Obama easily could have avoided. As reporters start to pore over the details of the stimulus spending reports the White House released a little more than a week ago, they're turning up lots of gems like this. In addition to the above, reporters at ...
Burris Vows Not to Resign Until Every Illinoisan Is Humiliated
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyBefore we go any further: Yes, "Illinoisan" is a word. There's even a newspaper with that word in the title.And if that paper's readers weren't embarrassed enough by getting their news from an entity that just brazenly rewrites the dictionary like that, well there's someone out there to pick up the slack...Their state's junior senator, Roland Burris.Burris, who has been told to resign by Governor Pat Quinn, Senator Dick Durbin, the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, and local political goon Bill Daley, refuses to heed their calls. U.S. Senator Roland Burris, under pressure to resign after ...
Chicago Tribune, Washington Post Call on Roland Burris to Resign
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyTwo weeks ago, the New York Times had their way with Tom Daschle, convincing him to withdraw his HHS nomination within hours of a reproachful editorial.Jealous that their proverbial big brother took down a former Senate majority leader/one-man savior of American health care, the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune have set their sights a bit lower...On a lame duck political appointee who's been on the job for all of three weeks.From the Trib:The benefit of the doubt had already been stretched thin and taut by the time Roland Burris offered his third version of the events leading to his ...
The Chicago Tribune Takes on Charlie Weis
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsAnd it ain't pretty. Perhaps sensing an opening to take shots at the Notre Dame coach after the new athletic director had to issue something resembling a vote of confidence this week and Jason Whitlock took to calling him college football's "Pear Bryant", the Tribune fired off several more volleys at the ego of the Irish coach.The Tribune's college football writer Teddy Greenstein delivers a virtual treasure trove of anecdotes and quotes hammering at Weis' seemingly limitless ego. An appetizer:When [Jeannette PA football coach Ray] Reitz told Weis that [recruit Terrelle] Pryor might attend a ...
I'll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCall it a new era of transparency. In the past week we've seen a veritable strip-tease by the Democratic candidates for president. Not that they'd been hiding all that much, mind you, but the modus operandi of the race up until this point had been to batten down the hatches, stay on-message, and brace for whatever potential scandal that might rear its head. Of course, a top-down, carefully controlled campaign also has its down sides. The media grows restless covering the same old shtick day after day. So it starts digging. Whispering campaigns are launched on blogs like this one. Surely there ...
Ozzie Guillen Would Like To Keep His Beer, Thanks
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsIn the wake of Josh Hancock's death last week, the Cardinals decided to ban alcohol from their clubhouse. A lot of teams have begun to adopt this philosophy, and some even wonder whether or not baseball should make it a universal rule.It's not necessarily the kind of rule that Ozzie Guillen is against, but he's not very happy that his name keeps coming up in these discussions. In a column that ran in Wednesday's Chicago Tribune, Guillen feels he was singled out for no reason. That is, unless they happen to play for the Oakland A's. Billy Beane, as progressive of a GM as there is in baseball, ...
Would The Twins Trade Johan Santana?
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsI have to say that the idea of the Twins trading Johan Santana has never crossed my mind, but it's definetely swirling around in the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rogers' mind. From his column in Monday's paper: Before contract talks broke off between Johan Santana and the Twins, baseball's best pitcher is believed to have had put the team on notice that he wants a contract at least as long as Barry Zito's eight-year deal with San Francisco. Why wouldn't he? "I'm going to be honest," Santana told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I would like to stay here forever. Now, how many years would they be ...
Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field Not So Friendly Anymore
By Eamonn Brennan - AOL NewsThere are plenty of stereotypes among and about Chicago's baseball fans. For example, Cubs fans are yuppie idiots who go to Wrigley Field to get soused on Old Style, not to watch baseball; and White Sox fans are "ghetto" or "low class" or any of the other far more insulting words used to describe Chicago's less affluent south side. It's no big surprise such stereotypes are usually bogus. There are plenty of "blue collar" Cubs fans, just like there are plenty of "suburban" White Sox fans. What's more, today the Chicago Tribune reports that the "Friendly Confines" of Wrigley Field -- long seen ...
Trade Speculation Is Fun: Carlos Zambrano for Ichiro
By Eamonn Brennan - AOL NewsSome things in baseball are more fun than others. Not fun: a long, scientific and sociocultural discussion about steroids' lasting effects on the game of baseball. Not fun: Craig Biggio. Not fun: Joe Morgan broadcasts. Fun: unfounded trade speculation! The Chicago Tribune's Phil Rogers weighed in on the Carlos Zambrano contract situation a couple of days ago, and says if the Cubs can't reach a deal with Zambrano eventually, Cubs GM Jim Hendry could consider a trade: Hendry would need an iron fortitude to deal Zambrano, no doubt about that. But there are ways that could work out. The Cubs ...
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