Mike Klonsky's Blog

Gen. Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it i...

...IT'S A MOVEMENT 100,000 in St. Louis

Today’s Sun-Times headline : “Outpouring of academic support for Bill Ayers — 3,200-plus sign petition for 1960s terrorist linked to Barack ...

Brownsville, TX As readers know, I’m not a big fan of Eli Broad or the Broad Prize. I've long been concerned about the growing power a...

Caricature of the working class “The plumber” ( Samuel J. Wurzelbacher ) thought he was in line for his “15 minutes of fame” when Maverick...

Reuters Photo from last night

L. Brent Bozell III They wanted to interview me. Shades of O’Reilly . Just what is CNS News , you may be wondering? They are the creation...

John Sydney McCain III had his coming out party last night. He tried his best to make one thing perfectly clear: “Senator Obama, I am not P...

BLAME IT ON ACORN? Quotables Christopher Buckley joins the parade of "real" conservatives bailing on Mav & Sixpack E...

Quincy Adams at The Reality-Based Community offers suggestions to Barack on how to respond to Maverick’s guilt-by-association tactics ...

Community organizer Talbott tells us why John Sidney McCain III hates Madeline Talbott. He’s even using his dwindling campaign funds t...

"If Ayers is a terrorist, then McCain is an adulterer and I am a 6th grader," writes columnist Eric Zorn in today's Chicago T...

“I do too have the nerve to say it to his face…” Is the Obama campaign playing John Sydney McCain III for a chump? It seems so. After th...

Wednesday (Tomorrow) evening, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St., Chicago 5:30 pm‐ Reception and silent auction of signed books (by the ...

The giant investment banks and failing auto industry are getting bailed out by taxpayers. But it's coming at the expense of public educa...

Racist Martin started it A NYT front page story today , is about Andy Martin , or as we knew him here in Chicago, Anthony Martin Trigona. ...

On Tuesday, October 21st, at 7 pm, Teachers College will host "Education and the Next President," a debate between Linda Darling-...

“Guilt by Association is Wrong”, writes Diana Nelson in this morning’s Trib . Diana was a Republican member of the Illinois House from 1981...

Because of its current significance, I am posting this letter from University of Illinois at Chicago Professor William H. Schubert , in it...