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• Local: Matt Hale, Elvis impersonatorSeptember 7, 2008
  .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } When did this happen? Elvis Presley may have been dead for 30 years, but the ‘King of Rock n Roll’ has shook up a man so much that he has spent nine months touring the world dressed as the legendary popstar. Donning Presley’s [...]
  Billy Dennis
• Media: Passing the hat for a favorite cartoonistSeptember 7, 2008
  I’m a big far of Chris Muir’s Internet-only online comic strip “Day By Day.” Chris has a conservative bent and a droll sense of humor. He occasionally takes the GOP to task, which makes his strip easier to enjoy if your politics are bent the other way. He loves wordplay. And it doesn’t help that [...]
  Billy Dennis
• Local: Illinois Nazis want some attentionSeptember 7, 2008
  I almost feel obligated to say something about the grade-school-style antics of the Illinois Nazis. They are driving around the city, tossing rocks at people and leaving notes in baggies on peoples’ driveways. But what is there to say that isn’t already almost universally agreed upon? These people are stupid, sad and pathetic. They are, by [...]
  Billy Dennis
• Menards. Sold!September 7, 2008
  PJStar Real Estate Transactions: 2211 W. Pioneer Parkway, Peoria, Menard Inc. to Jeffrey Green, $2,335,000. Google: Jeffrey Green. Owner. Green Chevrolet.
  PeoriaIllinoisan
• Local: Glen Oak holdouts are holding taxpayers hostageSeptember 7, 2008
  Peoria Anti-Pundit rightfully calls me to task for not raising a fuss about the situation described in this Journal Star article from two days ago. Peoria School District 150 is just two properties away from having bought all the land it needs to clear to make way for the new birth-to-8th-grade school it will use to [...]
  Billy Dennis