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- The Illinois Senate passed the Death Penalty Reforms with John Cullerton out in front, The Senate voted 56-3 on the bill that makes it easier for murder suspects to defend themselves and gives courts extraordinary power to set aside death sentences. "This is a revolutionary change that will be a model for other states that have the death penalty,'' said Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago), the bill's sponsor. The legislation sent to Gov. Rod Blagojevich Thursday requires juries to consider m... |
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- The State of Illinois is finally taking on Premcor and going after the Hartford refinery environmental problems. While Premcor wasn't the primary owner when the problems started, they are the responsible party now. The RFT did a fairly good job on the issue previously. This is the second refinery Premcor has had a problem with in the Midwest with Blue Island, Illinois being the other. In both cases, Premcor didn't start the problems, but bought problem refineries and failed to adequately c... |
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- Is the first headline I found at Phillip Johnson's new blog. Give him points for catching one's eye. The great thing is he doesn't stick to the Intelligent Design schtick so you get Johnson's ignorance on a whole variety of issues!... |
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Obama News (May 29 2003 20:59 GMT) - In their weekly mailer, a bit stripped from the Capitol Fax gives some insight into who Simmons entry into the Senate race benefits, The recent entry into the Democratic U.S. Senate primary of a wealthy trial lawyer from Downstate should help Barack Obama's chances, according to a number of political analysts this week. The candidacy of John Simmons, who has pledged to spend $10 million of his own money on the race, threatens the chances of Dan Hynes and Blair Hull - two Chicago-based candi... |
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- Bush takes on Sharon (finally) and then Evangelicals start taking shots at his Israeli policy. Pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon regarding his country's position on the Palestinians could incur the wrath of the 50 million-strong evangelical community in the U.S. the president hopes will "turn out in record numbers next year," observes the newsweekly. It describes the evangelical Christian-Jewish alliance as a "typical marriage of faith, principle and convenience," but adds t... |
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- Nuclear Nonproliferation should be the single most important issue being addressed by Washington. Currently the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign is urging people to contact their Senators to ensure several provisions from Curt Weldon are included in the Defense Authorization Bill Among the key Weldon provisions included in the defense bill are two that address what a recent Harvard study, commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative headed by Ted Turner and former Senator Sam Nunn, called... |
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- If Tom Delay prevails in the Texas redistricting, someone should agitate for the Democratic controlled Illinois General Assembly and the Democratic (former congressman) governor to reapportion Illinois districts. They could, for example, put Speaker of the House Hastert in the same district as Don Manzullo, Jerry Weller in with Tim Johnson, and Ray LaHood in with John Shimkus. I'm sure they could rearrange the Chicago area to create at least one more demcocratic district. I think they shou... |
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- First, Lott has gone and gotten himself a blog. I'll be adding this to the links under funny stuff. Second, Lott is interviewed in the Illinois Leader with this quote, Some years ago I was teaching a class that dealt with crime issues. I thought my students would be interested in reading some papers on gun control. I started looking for papers for them to read and was shocked at how poorly done the research was. |
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- In one of two stories today that required some (well, not much) actual reporting, Mike Kelleher confirms that he will not be running for the Illinois Democratic nomination to the US Senate in 2004. While he had not been listed as one of the likely candidates in most places, I had heard persistent rumors and so I asked him. Kelleher, for those who are not familiar with him, ran a spirited race in the 15th Congressional District in 2000 coming within six points of Republican Tim Johnson wh... |
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- Actually tracking down some news--more on that later. The next few weeks plan to be hectic--about the time that Tom Spencer will be getting back from grading AP exams in Texas , I'll be heading to Colorado to do the same. Between now and then I have some deadlines so blogging will be inconsistent, but I have some larger posts in the pipeline so perhaps I'll offer up some quality over quantity. As regular readers can tell, I'm still blogging pseudonymously, but that may or may not chang... |
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- ReutersDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz departed Washington on Thursday on a five-day trip to Singapore, South Korea and Japan to discuss U.S. strategy and military presence with leaders in the key region.Full story »»... |
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- That was my reaction when I read your post, Yoshi. HOWEVER! I talked to my dad about me paying the... |
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- Okay. I'm tired of scouring for links to mobile versions. If you have a mobile version of your blog please please please leave me the URL in the comments of this post. (You can even use hyperlinks! How is that for incentive? |
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- Okay. I'm tired of scouring for links to mobile versions. If you have a mobile version of your blog please please please leave me the URL in the comments of this post. (You can even use hyperlinks! How is that for incentive? |
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- Nullsoft (the Winamp people) today released WASTE, a secure, mesh-network IM/chat/file-transfer system. Looks kinda cool. They even GPL'd the code. WASTE is initially available on the following platforms: Windows FreeBSD MacOS X Notice a particularly popular operating system missing from... |
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- Bill Nye the Science Guy will be speaking at UCLA on Sunday June 1st at 3pm in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.... |
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- OpenACS CVS System (CVS Commits) (May 29 2003 15:55:09) |
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- Peter Marklund (OpenACS Development) (May 29 2003 14:25:00) |
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- Jeff McCombs (OpenACS Q&A) (May 29 2003 14:22:34) |
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- Peter Marklund (.LRN Q&A) (May 29 2003 14:09:52) |
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- PAL PC Tracker is a stealth software application developed by PAL Solutions Ltd. that secretly transmits an electronic signal to an email address of your choice and to an internet server, allowing you to track & locate your computer, anywhere in the world. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- OEA International, Inc. (OEA), the industry leader in 3D interconnect extraction, today announced entering into Agreement with Pivotal Enterprises (Pivotal), a leading marketing and business development solutions provider, to provide EDA marketing and business development expertise into the RF Module marketplace. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- Search technology leader Rocketinfo today released Rocketinfo Desktop, innovative and powerful software for finding and sharing current news and business information. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- Data Connection Limited (DCL), the leading provider of communications protocol software, and Telica, a leading provider of softswitch-based voice and data infrastructure products for today's evolving telecommunications network, announced today that Telica has licensed DCL's DC-MGCP, DC-Megaco, DC-SIP and DC-ATM software for its PlexusTM 9000 softswitch-based switching platform. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- SplashData, Inc., the leading developer of “virtual wallet” applications for mobile devices, announces the launch of SplashPhoto for Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC. SplashPhoto for Pocket PC is a conversion of the company’s popular Palm OS title, recently named “Best Image Viewer” by the editorial staff of Handheld Computing Magazine. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- Duality Software Releases new version of A-book - a handy digital address book that features envelope and label printing, vCards support, 'Save for Web' option and multi-user access over the network. [PRWEB May 29, 2003] |
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- UploadAway brings power and simplicity to website updating. UploadAway is an automated FTP uploading utility. Swiftly update an entire web site with one click. http://www. |
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- Robert R. Coveyou. "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance." |
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- Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal: "I know there are a lot of people out there saying we're lazy bums who don't know what we're doing. We kinda deserve it. The site has been slow on and off a lot lately. But, we are working hard on it, and hardly sleeping. |
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- Προπαγανδιστικό γραφείο στην Εθνικής Αμύνης - thessaloniki.indymedia.org |
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- hier etwas absolut cooles! zahlt sich aus, die arbeit. Das_Geheimnis_von_WORD1 (doc, 51 KB) seit heute wissen wir, warum wir so gerne mit word arbeiten... ;-) |
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- News.Com: "SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated." |
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HELP (May 29 2003 20:56 GMT) |
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- THE SCIENCE TUNNEL From Doug's this good tip: the science tunnel. He's got interesting stuff about Jean Chrétien and Bush too. |
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