privileges

Back in the olden days of my public education experience the teacher's lounge was a point of contention with many students in high school. While it was legal for many of the students to smoke---they couldn't do it on campus. What galled them was that the teacher's lounge was always smoke filled. It was a lesson in 'rank has its privileges'. 

The powers that be at Lean Left have been kind enough to grant me blogging privileges - at least until i start focusing on Britney Spears and/or American Idol.  I would like to thank them for this privilege, and excepting my pathological inability to spell, I will try not and embarrass anyone.

U.S. Democratic candidate for Senate Kenneth Eaton has injected himself into a controversy over eminent domain.

From a politician. who would have thought?

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue today decried the "double standard" that prompted Mayor Daley to endorse the idea of temporarily re-opening gun registration in Chicago after a request from Ald. Richard Mell (33rd).

I can't tell what is actually bugging KOS, but it looks like Bubba will have privileges he won't.

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I can't tell what is actually bugging KOS, but it looks like Bubba will have privileges he won't.

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David Oatney does not appreciate

Kay Brooks receipt of her federal stimulus rebate has gotten her thinking about state budget issues:

In the United States we take for granted freedoms and privileges which people around the world are struggling to attain for themselves. Among these freedoms is the right of assembly, the right to the exercise of free speech, the freedom of travel and the right to self-determination. These freedoms were hard won through the struggle for equal rights, which is continuing to this day