I don't know Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, but he has been smart to support the state's whiskey producers like he did yesterday ....

What a great picture, from the Chicago Tribune . Aren't they the perfect reality-TV couple? In case you don't know, that's ex-...

The number may change again before morning, but as I write this four University of Illinois Trustees resigned today. They are Kenneth Schmid...

Once again, Pat Quinn looks like the only straight shooter on the Illinois political scene. (I first wrote about this here .) Three Universi...

My conclusion from the birther debate: Maybe U.S. president is just another one of those jobs Americans won't do.

An essential element of any corrupt enterprise is that participants in it cannot trust each other until all of them have been compromised. A...

An anniversary went mostly unnoticed earlier this week, the 206th anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, a landmark decision of the early Unite...

One very unintended side effect of Barak Obama's election has been the national attention Illinois is getting about the sorry state of o...

It seems like every time Senator Heather Steans (D-7th) sends me a legislative update, I get a blog post out of it. Since Senator Steans doe...

It has been noted that, despite the reputation of Illinois for political corruption, this is the state’s first gubernatorial impeachment. It...

This is about Illinois government. I promise to keep it brief. I got a Legislative Update from my State Rep, Greg Harris. It explains the Ho...

Honesty always is a popular subject during political season. I've been meditating today, not so much about the sociopathic act of outrig...

Back in November, I berated Illinois State Representative Greg Harris for, as I called it, "lying for a worthy cause." I'm no...