Last night, Sean Hannity took to fighting the Highland Park, Illinois school system Sarah Palin is furious at over their refusal to allow their high school girls’ basketball team to travel to Arizona for a tournament. Their reasoning for preventing them from going was an opposition to the new Arizona illegal immigration law. Hannity had two of the girls from the team on the show to discuss their reaction to not being able to compete in Arizona, and they admitted they were, for the most part, confused.

Sarah Palin really knows how to get the most bang for her buck out of her catchphrases. Palin’s Twitter account— apparently she’s retreated from Facebook after the backlash against her Carly Fiorina endorsement Update: and her Facebook — already hinted at her fury about this, but today Palin took to Fox News to discuss the Illinois girl’s basketball team whose school is protesting against the new Arizona illegal immigration law, and she wants the girls to “go rogue” in response.

After appearing on a local talk show with his wife to confirm rumors of beating, attempted rape, using steroids, and not paying his alimony or his taxes, Illinois Lieutenant Governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen gave a tearful farewell to his campaign, presumably never to return to the political world again. Three months later, Cohen is reanimating his campaign for a shot at the big time, announcing an independent run for governor yesterday.

The defense in United States v. Rod Blagojevich just received the devastating news from the federal judge in the case that their request to subpoena President Barack Obama to testify in favor of the former governor has been denied. For media insiders and lovers of the political circus, it’s a sad day in America.

Dubious Illinois personality Rod Blagojevich allowed Fox News’ Greta van Susteren into “the sanctity of [his] home” last night to discuss his upcoming trial and his defense’s request to subpoena President Barack Obama. After last week’s .pdf redaction failure, the media had been hoping Blagojevich would have something new to add, but unfortunately, Blagojevich was so afraid of getting in trouble again that he just rehashed his greatest hits

Consider this the anti-Bill Maher round table: Sean Hannity‘s “Great American Panel” tackled national security, racism, and the current political climate last night, but the most interesting part of the conversation revolved around Barack Obama‘s decreasing political visibility as the 2010 election season approaches, which Hannity suggested (hoped?) was a product of fear.

In case you were wondering how PR master Rod Blagojevich was going to follow up this week’s bold attempt to subpoena the President to testify at his trial (and the subsequent classified information breach): “Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to make a cameo appearance in Oak Lawn this weekend at an inspirational talk given by Elvis Presley‘s stepbrother.”

Today in United States v. Rod Blagojevich: following up on his 2008 claims that then-Senator Barack Obama was one of a few people who could testify to his innocence, his defense team issued a motion today to subpoena the President to testify in court. Most of the juiciest bits involving Obama’s role in choosing a new Senator are blacked out, or so we thought. It turns a lucky PDF glitch gave us VIP access. Who wouldn’t want to see the blacked out part? Let’s investigate!

For those lamenting former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s expulsion from Celebrity Apprentice, fear not: it did not mean expulsion from the limelight. Blagojevich held a press conference yesterday in anticipation of his criminal trial, but he was no longer the poet son of Kipling of 2008. This new Blago was all macho— defending his wife’s honor and challenging Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald to “man up” and come to court with him.

America shed a tear for Governor Rod Blagojevich last night when he was plucked out of Donald Trump’s recession nightmare The Celebrity Apprentice for courageously defending Bret Michaels’ work ethic. But Blago only gave the nation about 12 hours to mope before he was back on TV announcing his triumphant return to public office, which is a bold declaration to make when you’ve been banned for life from serving in your home state.

The last piece of the Eric Massa puzzle – disgraced former governor of Illinois and news cycle hero Rod Blagojevich, has decided to enter the fray in an interview with Fred Thompson, the former actor who sleepily made a run for the Republican nomination to the presidency in 2008 and apparently has a radio show now. And he knows exactly what Massa is talking about when he says Rahm Emanuel harassed him nude in the showers of the Congressional gym.

The big day for Rod Blagojevich’s dubiously categorized “ethics” lecture at Northwestern University has come and gone and, judging from the footage college’s newspaper has released, it lived up to the hype. America’s fanciest gubernatorial coif and its disgraced owner proved he still has some tricks up his sleeve.

The No-Spin Zone has met its match. Bill O’Reilly welcomed disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to The Factor last night to discuss his recent federal indictment for a bevy of corruption charges and, after a few pleasantries, it took one question to send Blagojevich running behind the curtain of his court ordered silence.

Just a few days after asserting that his past troubles with domestic violence, steroid use, alimony, and the IRS were “not an embarrassment” to the Democratic Party, Illinois Lt. Governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen took to a local bar to announce his exit from the race. Cohen’s departure was to be expected after a shocking [...]

No matter how much UNICO may be complaining, shady Italian-Americans have become the anti-culture of choice in our modern pop culture, largely thanks to MTV’s Jersey Shore. What was once considered an embarrassing, unmentionable stereotype has been embraced for its entertainment value and, shockingly, its accuracy. So why is the Illinois Republican party throwing nearly every Italian-American stereotype (and Rod Blagojevich!) at Greek-American Democratic senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias?