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Now that Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich is custody, and under indictment, the Illinois Governor's job will devolve, at least temporarily, on his Lieutenant-Governor, the easy to spell Pat Quinn.
Today's FBI bust of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges is for me bittersweet news.
On the one hand, I am ecstatic over the fact that Illinois' favorite "son of immigrants" is going to have to answer for attempting to "auction" Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat and other sorted shenanigans that include trying to line up an ambassadorship for himself as well as a better-paying job for his wife.
Tony Leys writes in the Des Moines Register
How much more would consumers have to pay for meat if the United States deported all illegal immigrants and clamped down on the flow of legal immigrants?
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Well-known illegal immigration enthusiast Governor Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic Governor of Illinois, has been arrested on charges that he was trying to sell the appointment to the Senate seat about to be vacated by Senator Barack Obama.[FBI Arrests Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich,, Blago
Brenda Walker's blog Diversity Hiccups in the Obama Shape-Up opened a matter which we are going to have to face more and more:
Have you noticed that when a politician wants to pass the buck on a problem often the response is to order a new government study?
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12/08/08 - A North Carolina Reader Exposes A New MSM Low—The Same Immigration Sob Story Twice!
From: Henry Houston (e-mail
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