While the great arch at St. Louis was very impressive, we learned that it was a US taxpayer funded project of an earlier generation. It was designed to revitalize downtown St. Louis. Since the downtown was nearly completely deserted, we guessed it didn't work. There was' [...]
Federal officials made it final on Tuesday, the U.S. government is going to buy the largely-vacant prison near Thomson, Ill., and use it to house many of the alleged terrorist suspects who until now have been held indefinitely at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay [...]
by Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook
President Barack Obama, acknowledging that he will have to accept serious compromises in the passage of a health-care overhaul, insisted today that he will not let the public down on an issue that he has made the centerpiece of his first-year domestic [...]
by Mark Silva
Maybe now we know why President Barack Obama, leader of the free world, and Warren Buffett, "oracle of Omaha,'' get along so well.
They're related.
So says the research of Ancestry.com, the online genealogical enterprise that's gained a name for making long-lost connections.
Obama and Buffett apparentl are even'" [...]
from the Proft for Governor campaign
Nine is a small number with enormous consequences. Nearly all of our state’s public power and resources are concentrated in the hands of nine people. Of course, someone has to hold these positions, but it is important to recognize that the [...]
This just in via email:
BREAKING NEWS: Terror Alert in Chicago, IL
The Chicago Bears football practice was delayed nearly two hours today after a player reported finding an unknown white powdery substance on the practice field. Head coach Lovie Smith immediately suspended practice and called the police and federal investigators.
After a complete [...]
by Mark Batinick of Plainfield, IL
I cannot say thank you enough, to both the organizers of the Tea Party movement, and its supporters. With the bank bailouts and the near trillion dollar stimulus, your blood pressure finally boiled to the point where you stopped yelling at the TV, and started [...]
ACT! for America Founder and President, Brigitte Gabriel delineates the disastrous effect Political Correctness is having on our leaders and citizens in the fight against radical Islam in America. She lambastes its debilitating power to render government and the military impotent in fretting out those who wish us harm. She [...]
UPDATE: The Trib reports Governor Quinn said he expects a decision "very shortly" about whether the feds plan to buy the Thomson prison.
A growing group of Illinoisans concerned about Obama/Durbin/Quinn's plan to transfer Gitmo terrorists to western Illinois' Thomson Corrections facility will protest a public hearing to be held Tuesday, December 22, at the nearby Sterling [...]
by Mark Silva
It's probably going to be impossible to forget listening to Vic Damone singing Sen. Orrin Hatch's Jesus' Love is Like a River in a nearly empty tent on a hot day at the Iowa GOP Straw Poll.
That's precisely what we were doing one day one [...]
WASHINGTON--The Obama White House is on course to make a nearly vacant Illinois prison the new home for up to 100 detainees now at the Guantanamo military prison in Cuba. While the question has been raised about whether they will ever face trial in a Chicago courtroom--and the White [...]
Dad and I stopped at the Goodness Cafe for lunch, and I am glad we did.
The place is located at the corner of Monroe and LaVielle in Peoria smack dab in the Near North side.
Dad insists the joint used to be a Kroger’s store back when he was [...]
Winnebago County Board Republicans meet tonight (Tuesday) to interview candidates to replace “Chopper One,” aka Randy Olson, for the District One seat from which he just resigned. Olson is now a county employee working full time for the LEAC helicopter law enforcement consortium.
Candidate to replace him are Richard A. Sneath, [...]
Pretty brutal takedown on the Repubicans ‘plans’:
Meanwhile, Republicans vow to erase a deficit expected to reach nearly $12 billion next year simply by stimulating employment in the private sector and downsizing state government — a proposed remedy that may entice voters but affronts reality. Not allowing facts to intrude [...]
Solution Near In High-Speed Rail Dispute
Springield leaders who had threatened a lawsuit to block a proposal to run a high-speed rail line through Sagamon County met with state officials yesterday to hash out a solution. The dispute threatens the state's ability to collect billions in federal [...]
by Mark Silva
As President Barack Obama heads for Oslo this week to accept the Nobel Prize for Peace -- only the third sitting president to accept the award -- he is ramping up the U.S. military deployment in Afghanistan, an eight-year-old war, to nearly 100,000 troops.
The irony [...]
The city's hunt to fill its cash-starved coffers has come to this: Some traffic-control aides -- those city employees in the fluorescent coats who help cars and pedestrians move [...]
Maybe this would work for Chicago? BBC: Japanese hotels near stations are trying to attract train spotters with rooms marketed as having a "rail view". They throw in a timetable. Would it work for the El? The Blues Brothers view.by John F. Di Leo
With the continued popularity of Ayn Rand’s work, nearly thirty years after her death, we continue to see attacks, usually focusing more on her than on her work. Heather Wilhelm of the Illinois Policy Institute had a fair piece in the Wall Street Journal on the [...]
Those who suffered only recently are about to be deployed in service to this nation.
The day after arriving at Fort Hood, Army reservists dedicated to counseling troubled soldiers in war zones were overcome with their own grief.
Nearly a fourth of the Wisconsin-based 467th Medical Detachment’s [...]
