Meet Mike Niecestro, the self-proclaimed "disgusted Republican" who is planning to enter the race for US Senate in Illinois as an Independent. With the filing deadline to run less than a week away, the conservative Mr. Niecestro says he already has the 25,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot, will spend at least a million of his own dollars on the campaign, has raised an additional $100,000 and has a website to promote his candidacy.

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Three academics, two environmentalists and two politicians get appointed to a commission. Unfortunately that's not the beginning of a joke; it's the group that President Barack Obama has appointed to his BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission. Given the lack of anyone with real world, oil industry experience and the fact that at least two of his appointees have already publicly stated their conclusions on the issue, perhaps it is a joke after all.

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