ArchPundit (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Apparently, housing terrorists in Illinois will lead to the Sears Tower being targeted, seriously… “If your Administration brings Al Qaeda terrorists to Illinois, our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist plots, recruitment and radicalization…As home to America’s tallest building, we should not invite Al Qaeda to make Illinois...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam and Mark Kirk, along with Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman will discuss a new study commissioned by the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) detailing the economic costs of Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page, $1.055 trillion, health...
Election Addict (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Chicago Daily Herald reported on Tuesday that Republican Senate candidate Patrick Hughes was making a trip to Washington to seek the support there of major conservative action groups. Additionally, Hughes is hoping to win the endorsements of two potential Republican Presidential candidates: former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The Herald writes: Hughes,...
Election Addict (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
While Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias trails leading Republican hopeful Mark Kirk by just three points, Democratic rival David Hoffman - who trails Kirk by seven - still claims to be the more electable of the two. The Hoffman campaign released some of its own polling data on Tuesday and The Hill reports that Hoffman believes Giannoulias' lead over him to be solely down to name recognition,...
Election Addict (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Republican Rep. - and Senate candidate - Mark Kirk introduced in the US House a few days ago a provision that would require a Federal assessment of security measures at key Illinois locations such as Chicago O'Hare Airport and the Willis Tower if plans go ahead to bring Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois. The Lake County News-Sun reports: Kirk ... noted that federal...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Below, Coulson release.... REP. COULSON TO MEET WITH RNC CHAIR NORTHBROOK (November 19) - State Rep. Beth Coulson, Republican candidate for Congress in the 10thDistrict, today announced she will meet with RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Friday in Chicago. Coulson will join Illinois' House Minority Leader Tom Cross and Senate Minority Leader Chris Radogno, as well as Illinois Republican Chairman Pat...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: U.S. lawmakers are all in a lather over plans to transfer detainees from Guantanamo to the U.S. mainland where -- golly -- they might end up in a prison in Barack Obama's own backyard. This outbreak of “not in my bailiwick” has been touched off by news the federal bureau of...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Earlier this month, when Rep. Mark Kirk accused Trita Parsi, the Iranian national who heads the oddly named National Iranian American Council, of being a "regime sympathizer," NIAC accused Kirk of making a "slanderous allegation." Yet internal emails reveal that Parsi certainly did not see himself as an opponent of the regime in Tehran. In fact, Parsi was confident that an affiliation...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
We realize that the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to American soil is a complex problem and that people can object in good faith. But some of the rhetoric from the right on the issue has gone from NIMBY to just plain DSM-IV . Here are four of the stranger quotes from public officials: --In light of this weekend’s revelation that a large number of prisoners may be transferred to a supermax...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Again, Steve Benen: The prospect of transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a maximum-security prison in Thomson, Illinois, generated an interesting response from a Republican state lawmaker who represents a neighboring area. Representative Jim Sacia of the state’s 89th District accused Republicans in Washington — including Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) — of risking...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Obama administration is finally getting serious about closing Guantanamo. The main obstacle to closing the military prison has always been that it wasn't clear where to put the approximately 200 detainees still being held there. But now the administration has floated the possibility that it might move them to American soil. Last week, a delegation from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons inspected a state-of-the-art...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There certainly is not a ton of 2010 polling today, but there is an interesting variety of polling data, at least. There are also a small handful of intriguing political headlines. With that in mind, let's put Tuesday to bed with this edition of the Wrap-Up. IL-Sen: Candidate Poll Suggests Frontrunner Is Vulnerable in 2010 Take this with a couple of pounds of salt, as it is the result of two fairly...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
CHICAGO — As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts. The nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in the western Illinois farming town of Thomson is the latest potential candidate being evaluated to hold detainees after President Barack...
PrairieStateBlue - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Dear David H. Hoffman , Sorry I can't catch you at the Tenth Dems meeting (scroll down to November 17, "Meet the candidates, David Hoffman"). I have a conflict. I decided to write my feedback on and questions for your campaign in the form of a letter. I request you respond online. You announced your campaign on August 26, 2009. It's now November 17, 2009. You're slightly more than halfway...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk may or may not accept an endorsement from conservative talk show host Glenn Beck -- he won't say either way. After word broke that the self-described moderate Congressman was seeking kind words from Sarah Palin on behalf of his Senate bid, Think Progress caught up with Kirk and asked whether he would be open to an endorsement from the Fox News host, similar to the one...
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