Chicago gulps first foie gras conviction

It is a great day in Chicago, as city officials can place Hot Doug's a Northwest Side hot dog stand on it's conviction trophy case.

Last summer, Ald. Joe Moore, the anti Wal-Mart crusader, pushed through Chicago's City Council a ban on the serving of foie gras--a duck liver delicacy--in all city restaraunts. Before the passage of the bill, it was believed a grand total of a dozen or so eateries were serving foie gras.

Doug Sohn, owner of Hot Doug's pleaded guilty to serving the dish, and he agreed to pay a a $250 fine.

Chicagoans can now sleep peacefully at night--Hot Doug's is now a foie gras-free zone.

For more on Joe Moore, visit Rogers Park Bench and start scrolling.

Related post: Ald. Joe Moore, retail genius

Thanks for the link: Third Wave Dave

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Surrender-crats and two RINOs vote for defeat in Iraq

With the excecption of Joe Lieberman, all of the Senate Democrats plus two Republicans-in-name-only (RINOs), Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon, voted to set a timeline for the withdrawal of our combat troops from Iraq.

Alabama Republican Richard Shelby summed things up this way:

Surely this will embolden the enemy and it will not help our troops in any way.

Thanks for the link: Flopping Aces

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Welcome to Chicago, Ron Rosenbaum

Pajamas Media blogger and columnist Ron Rosenbaum is moving to Chicago for while, as he's accepted the Vare Fellowship on non-fiction writing at the University of Chicago, one time stomping ground of Sen. Barack Obama, the late Milton Friedman, and Enrico Fermi.

From his Pajamas Media post, it appears Rosenbaum will be living near the U. of C. campus. The lakefront running trail is great, and there are a lot neat little books stores in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Parking is a problem though, and Ron, you can forget about finding a decent supermarket to shop in nearby.

Chicago has two baseball teams, one of which is professional, the Chicago White Sox who play a few miles to the east of campus.

And Ron, if you have any health-care issues, just contact Barack Obama's wife Michelle, who is the vice president for community and external affairs at the highly-regarded University of Chicago Hospital.

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Hillary succeeds Carol Moseley Braun in receiving NOW endorsement

Hillary Clinton and her followers are whooping it up this evening because the New York senator's presidential campaign received the endorsement from the National Organization of Women.

From AP:

Asked if she viewed herself as a feminist, Clinton said by the standard definition, yes.

"If you look in the dictionary, the word feminist means someone who believes in equal rights for women in society, in the economy, the political process — generally believes in the equality of women. And I certainly believe in the equality of women," she said.

Her response was met with enthusiastic cheers from the crowd.

The New York senator and Democratic front-runner has launched a nationwide outreach to women voters, who are a majority of the electorate. The NOW endorsement was expected, and the Clinton campaign hopes the group's membership will strengthen the ranks of campaign volunteers and supporters.

Let's get into the way-back machine, back to the summer of 2003:

Today, Women's Equality Day, the National Organization for Women's Political Action Committee is proud to announce our endorsement of former Ambassador and Senator Carol Moseley Braun for President of the United States. I'm pleased that the National Women's Political Caucus also is announcing their endorsement this morning.

Roselyn O'Connell, president of the National Women's Political Caucus (left) and Kim Gandy, chair of the NOW Political Action Committee (right) jointly announced their groups' endorsements of Carol Moseley Braun on Aug. 26. With our endorsement comes access to NOW's hundreds of thousands of contributing members and over 500 chapters across the country—and the support of thousands of volunteer activists who are dedicated to supporting feminist candidates with their contributions and volunteer time.

The NOW endorsement did nothing for Carol Moseley Braun, whose pathetic campaign on a good day crossed the one-percent barrier in nationwide polls back in 2004.

Moseley-Braun even went as far to hire former NOW president Patricia Ireland to manage her campaign. (Ireland achieved national prominence as a chief apologist of then-President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.) But it didn't matter for CMB, before even the 2004 Iowa Caucuses, Moseley-Braun withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, disappointing dozens. Braun threw her "support" behind Howard Dean, and we know how he ended up.

Hillary will do better than the hapless Moseley-Braun. But it won't be because of today's NOW endorsement.

Thanks for the link: Blogmeister USA.

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Iran to Britain: Admit "mistake" of crossing border

Here is the latest insanity from Iran:

Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that Britain must admit that its 15 sailor and marines entered Iranian waters in order to resolve the standoff over their

"First they have to admit that they have made a mistake. Admitting the mistake will facilitate a solution to the problem," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told The Associated Press in an interview in Riyadh.

Hello mullahs: Just release the sailors and the marines.

Oh, the rulers of Iran really are nuts. Here's a post of mine from last year:

The Iranian regime and sexual relations with chickens

Read the post. And no, I'm not making this stuff up.

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Bush cites Pajamas blog Iraq The Model in speech

The power of blogs is getting noticed by the current resident of 2400 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Bush had this to say about Pajamas Blog Iraq The Model.

They have bloggers in Baghdad, just like we've got here.

Then he quoted from Iraq The Model.

"Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity, stores that were long shuttered are now reopening. We feel safer about moving in the city now. Our people want to see this effort succeed."

Hopefully Surrender-crats Patrick Leahy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid will drop by that blog and learn some things.

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Iranian hostage crisis: Second verse, same as the first

Just as in 1979, the Iranians are parading their hostages in front of the media.

Need I remind you that the Iranian leaders are barbarians?

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Iranians expected to release female sailor soon

The second Iranian hostage crisis, yes they're hostages, continues to drag on with a piece of good news: One sailor, a woman, will probably be released today or tomorrow.

Those who were around for the first hostage crisis will remember that early on, a month or so into the 444 day ordeal, the mullahs released all of the American female and African-American hostages. A few months later a white male hostage suffering from multiple sclerosis was set free.

So it's wrong to view the expected release of Faye Turney as a softening of the hard-line stance of the Iranians.

Meanwhile, the British have released pretty compelling evidence that their patrol boat was ambushed in Iraqi waters.

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