By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Here is my Creators Syndicate column for this week. It's on the Rod Blagojevich scandal. And here is quite a good piece by Dan Rostenkowski in defense of Chicago politics.
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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.
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