Michael Bates

Mike Bates is the author of Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths. Michael's articles have appeared in the Congressional Record, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mensa Journal. As a lad, Mike distributed Goldwater campaign literature and since then has steadily moved further to the Right. In 2007, he won an Illinois Press Association award for Original Column.

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Most Recent Articles by Michael Bates:

Obama’s politics of new ideas September 10, 2008
1972 Democrat George McGovern's platform
Obama condemns (wink, wink) sleazy politics September 3, 2008
Maureen Dowd, Howard Fineman, Eleanor Clift, Daily Kos
Convention observations August 27, 2008
Michelle and the Kids, Ted Kennedy
Dictatorship we can believe in August 20, 2008
The Blueprint for Change: Barack Obama’s Plan for America
The power of one August 6, 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Is Obama an alien abductee? July 30, 2008
58 Signs of Alien Abduction
Have we gone insane? July 24, 2008
Poll: Country is on the wrong track, Waste and fraud and mismanagement
Smart Hillary bides her time July 17, 2008
Barack Obama's blunders
Obama’s Supreme puzzlement July 10, 2008
Starting to make John Kerry look decisive
The Mike Bates Independence Day Quiz July 2, 2008
Declaration of Independence
The unsinkable Father Pfleger June 26, 2008
Chicagos' Activist Priest
Big bad Barack flinches June 18, 2008
To his fanatical followers, Obama is a giant of messianic proportions
Hooray for gas pains June 12, 2008
Americans favor drilling in U.S. coastal and wilderness areas
An unrepentant slacker’s confession June 6, 2008
Calling in sick, sick days
Echoes of 1968 May 29, 2008
Assassination, Robert Kennedy, Cult of Personality
Where Obama should start May 16, 2008
Democratic Party website
I just love Fox News May 8, 2008
Fox News Channel is still a breath of fresh air
The Supremes uphold election integrity April 30, 2008
Voter photo identification requirement
Another liberal profile in pettiness April 24, 2008
California Senator Barbara Boxer
St. Francis should have tried bribes April 17, 2008
Illinois hospital Board, corruption
My, Obama, what big ear(marks) you have April 10, 2008
Obama secured almost $100 million in pork for Illinois this fiscal year
No uniform answer for the Democrats April 3, 2008
What a difference four years make
Green collar jobs to the rescue? March 27, 2008
The green bandwagon
A Hussein by any other name March 5, 2008
Middle names, and hate speech
Not a dime’s worth of difference February 27, 2008
Rating Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Behind every great man February 22, 2008
Former first lady Nancy Reagan
McCain’s looking better already February 14, 2008
Ann Coulter is wrong
Trusting in government February 7, 2008
The reality is government frequently can’t be trusted to handle even small tasks
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago January 23, 2008
Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky Affair
As nasty as an afternoon tea party January 17, 2008
Clinton-Obama fight