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Meanwhile, Illinois Reason is viciously attacking Ann  Leary for viciously attacking Barack Obama. Leary argues that Obama encouraged gang violence when he voted against extending the death penalty to cover gang murders. As a libertarian who is AGAINST the death penalty, I agree with Argus that Leary has gone a little too far with this [...]

From Barr’s Blog:
In a survey commissioned last week by the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, seven percent of likely voters responded that they would vote for the former Georgia congressman for president if he were on the ballot in November. Shortly after Ross Perot announced he was re-entering the presidential race in October 1992, [...]

Barack Obama is the candidate of hope, but most of us have been a little confused about what that means exactly. Now Obama is slowly lending some substance to the rhetoric, by giving away free concert tickets to Ben & Jerry’s favorite band: The Dave Matthews Band. Does Obama plan on giving Dave a cabinet [...]

This is the first in a series of post on races where a good free-market candidate is taking on the left. Consider it a serious version of Colbert’s “Better Know a District.” The first is Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional district, where Chris Hackett is trying to take back a traditionally conservative seat from Chris Carney who [...]

Rick Pearson isn’t the worst reporter at the Tribune.  But his coverage of Foster’s victory over Oberweis in the 14th is a little incomplete. It certainly paints  a bleak picture for Illinois Republicans, but that part is indisputable.  However, Pearson didn’t provide enough context about how having  successful presidential campaign machine in Illinois impacts a [...]

The Chicago Sun-Times shocked everyone by endorsing the Republican, Jim Oberweis, for Congress. They should be applauded for it. Not because Oberweis is a Republican, or because he is conservative, but because they were willing to cross party lines to endorse who they felt was the most prepared for the job. In an age of [...]

John Kass writes: “When the parish priest does right by the patronage boss to protect the mayor who gets endorsed by that great reformer Sir Barack of O’bama, that’s the Chicago Way.”

I haven’t found a link to this yet, but MSNBC was covering on Morning Joe this morning. Hillary is finally taking Obama head on. Her new line of attack? Paraphrase: “I have a lifetime of experience to bring to the White House, Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to bring to the White House, [...]

Did winner-take-all primaries cost Romney (and conservatives) the nomination? A buddy of mine put together a pretty good chart demonstrating that they did. Download a PDF of it here.
If Republican delegates had been assigned proportionally, Romney would have actually led McCain by 8 delegates on Feb. 7–the day he suspended his campaign. Instead, McCain [...]

So I’m really starting to like the idea of a Ron Paul Independent candidacy. This is not because I would vote for the guy necessarily, but because we desperately need some intervention in our existing party system.
Can you imagine a three-way race between Clinton, Paul and Huckabee. Believe it or not, Paul would actually have [...]