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Miranda rights that must be read to anyone arrested and questioned: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.

Memo to the defense: good grounds for appeal?

When the Feds claimed that 14,330 school jobs in Illinois had either been saved or created thanks to $1.25 billion in stimulus funds, some people started to scratch their heads. In Stephen Hayes’ Fox News segment tonight, he mentioned that $5 million of stimulus money reportedly went just to the northern Illinois public schools, creating 473 jobs; problem is, there actually are only 293 jobs in those schools. And thanks, Steve, for making Wilmette even more famous as an example of a district where 0 (zero) jobs were created by the stimulus!

First Oprah … now Rush? Sarah Palin’s book tour promoting Going Rogue, which came out officially today, has begun with a bang or two. What is it about the You-Betcha-Gal from Alaska that gets the left so seething mad anyway?

Earlier it seemed to conservativeBrand that they just couldn’t stomach the fact that Sarah Palin didn’t kill her (inconvenient Downs Syndrome) baby or her daughter’s (inconvenient out-of-wedlock) baby when she legally could have. Now the depth and breadth of their cackling has increased geometrically, so that must mean one thing only: Governor Palin is effectively tapping into a nationwide populist movement that may just be unstoppable when election time comes round. Remarkably, Palin does not advocate a third party; she wants her Republican Party to come round to her way of operating and thinking.

After the radio interview with Rush Limbaugh today, MSNBC characterized Sarah Palin as “Judas going after the shekels.” Ouch. What she actually said on Rush’s show was that she appreciates the fact that Republicans don’t hesitate to duke it out within the party during primaries - that they end up with “a better product” because of it. Her message to independents, who appear to be leaving the Obama party in droves, is to “come on back to common sense conservatism.” And much to the concern of her Democrat detractors, that’s pretty much the message of her book - that and setting the record straight about some of the mistakes made both by Palin herself and the McCain campaign during the last election.

Melanie Kirkpatrick offers a measure of commonsense in her review of Going Rogue in the Wall Street Journal. She concludes, “Mrs. Palin emerges as a new style of feminist: a politician who took on the Ole Boy network and won; a wife with a supportive husband whose career takes second place to hers; and a mother who, unlike working women of an earlier age, isn’t shy about showcasing her family responsibilities.” Liberals, beware.

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Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett reacted to questions today about whether his interview with Obama from Beijing really would happen. Looks like the interview will play at 8:20 p.m. central time tonight. Here is Garrett’s tweet:

“I will interview POTUS* on camera Wed am here in Beijing. 4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now.”

222 fellow tweeters responded with suggested questions - what would you like to ask the president?

*President of the United States

Eagle Forum in Washington is reporting the latest timetable for ObamaCare in the Senate: Sen. Reid is likely to have his Congressional Budget Office score today, unveil his bill tomorrow (Wednesday) and file cloture as well.  If Reid does file cloture tomorrow, that will bring the Senate to a Friday vote on the motion to proceed.
 
If Reid files cloture on Thursday, that brings the Senate to a Saturday vote.  And, if he waits until Friday to file cloture, that would means to a Sunday vote.

Don Wade and Roma (WLS AM890 radio) awakened Chicagoland this morning with statements from Dan Proft, Mark Kirk and Jan Schakowsky - the first two especially thoughtful on the subject of Obama/Holder moving 100 or so terrorist detainees from Gitmo to Thomson, IL. Must have gotten Jan up way too early, as she was neither thoughtful nor interesting, her interview consisting mainly of “uh, hymmmm, um, no that’s wrong, I didn’t know that, I’ll get the figures,” etc. The great gift of this Durbin/Quinn (he’s the governor now, remember?) endorsed scheme is the debate that surely will keep fomenting through the Feb. 2 primary and into the November election cycle - all to the benefit of governor, Senate and Congressional candidates on the right side.

Here’s what Mark Kirk had to say on this subject: If your Administration brings Al Qaeda terrorists to Illinois, our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist plots, recruitment and radicalization.

Furthermore, since Thomson is located in the Northern District of Illinois, any civilian prosecution of Al Qaeda terrorists would occur in Rockford or downtown Chicago.

As home to America’s tallest building, we should not invite Al Qaeda to make Illinois its number one target.

The United States spent more than $50 million to build the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to keep terrorists away from U.S. soil. Al Qaeda terrorists should stay where they cannot endanger American citizens.