ABC7's Chuck Goudy ran an important story Thanksgiving Eve that most viewers missed. It's about townships, the amount of tax dollars they rake in, what they're for and why the whole system is nothing but a dole for favored political insiders -- including an array of Democratic double-dippers.
But the ABC7' [...]
by Sam Pierce
The FFT (Feckless Fifty-Two point seven percent of those who voted in the 2008 election) have set the car on fire, cut the brake lines, and pushed it off the plateau and it is barreling down a steep slope. There is an occasional explosion as the flame reaches [...]
by John Ackermann
At a recent local candidate forum, a local judicial candidate grabbed my attention with his stump speech. For those of you not familiar with that term, stump speech came about from the political campaigns of the 18th and early 19th centuries before technology aloud for the broadcast of [...]
During a recent interview, Public Affairs Jeff Berkowitz asked 10th CD Republican Bob Dold what he would have done had he been in Congress during the bailout vote ...
Jeff Berkowitz: …if you had been there [in Congress]… in the Fall of 2008 when President Bush, Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed [...]
Even though they're from two different political parties and running for two different statewide offices, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, State Treasurer Alexi GIannoulias is the only statewide candidate that's followed Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrezjewski's example of making his income tax returns available for media scrutiny.
by Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire:
Throughout history there exists an ongoing battle over what cultures celebrate and why. In recent American history the battle lines are often described as pro and anti-Christian.
America once was content in allowing civil authorities to select and define its holidays. With the increasing influence [...]
From the Proft for Governor campaign:
Policies advanced and supported by the nine Chicago Democrats who control $70 billion worth of government and 125,000 public sector jobs in Illinois have destroyed this state's economy. Those 9 Chicago Democrats: Pat Quinn, Lisa Madigan, Jesse White, Dan Hynes, Alexi Giannoulias, Mike Madigan, John [...]
On Saturday, November 28th, at 11:00 a.m. families will gather in Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago, to celebrate the annual dedication of the Chicago Nativity Scene. "The Nativity Scene has been an annual tradition in Daley Plaza since l985 when the beautiful life size crèche was first displayed," said Terrance [...]
By John Brown's Ghost
Much has been made in the blogosphere about the hacking of data from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. You may have seen my article from the other day on the subject. If you failed to come here [...]
THE PRESIDENT: Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Welcome to the White House. On behalf of Sasha and Malia and myself, we're thrilled to see you. I want to thank Walter Pelletier, chairman of the National Turkey Federation, and Joel Brandenberger, its president, for donating' [...]
By Nathan Tabor
This past year has been a tough one for many, if not most, Americans. While fighting two fronts in the war on terrorism, we've had to contend with economic turmoil, soaring unemployment, political division and a growing sense that America's best years are behind us.
However, this Thanksgiving' [...]
By Mark Rhoads
Give dishnoest scientists enough rope, and they might hang themselves. Following the Climategate scandal at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK, on Wednesday came revelations of more fake global warming data at The New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. All [...]
Having Green Party activist Rob Sherman dub Republican primary candidate Anita Forte-Scott "the worst candidate ever" wasn't what was on the 56th State Rep district candidate's mind today when she talked to Illinois Review. The Schaumburg resident's emphasis was to squelch any rumors that she was interested in running for the' [...]
NORTHBROOK, Ill. - U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk today released the following statement following news that the defense official charged with moving the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Illinois – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy Phillip Carter – unexpectedly resigned on Friday.
“Last Thursday, members [...]
Democrats are either hedging their bets on keeping Obama's US Senate seat in Illinois, or they're bluffing. An Associated Press piece says:
The Obama administration has even expressed some uneasiness about Democrats' ability to keep the seat away from Republicans in the wake of Blagojevich.
"Obviously there is an added burden, but'" [...]
The enviro-terrorists are obsessed with the polar bear. Even in the wake of Climategate, they resort to killing the animal in order to propagandize their manufactured crisis of global warming. Below is their latest:
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Morris, IL -- The Chicago Machine and its endless surplus of political workers have once again delivered for Careen Gordon who’s facing a heated re-election race for 75th State Representative against a family business owner and longtime Morris resident Sue Rezin.
Cook County and Chicago residents are listed as circulators for [...]
from Americans for Prosperity
Over the last year, Americans for Prosperity has criss-crossed the nation holding rallies featuring AFP's 7-story high hot air balloon emblazoned with our message: "Cap-and-Trade means higher taxes, lost jobs and less freedom."
Now, with the battle over climate change at a fever pitch, Americans for Prosperity is' [...]
The recent townhall on health care held in U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski's south Chicago district stirred a huge controversy over the experience shared by the woman below. At least one local journalist used the emotiomal exchange to paint local Tea Party participants in a negative light, as insensitive and' [...]
by Rhonda Robinson
Will Barack Hussein Obama become just another name in the long list of defamed, failed, and corrupt Illinois politicians? Will he follow in Governor Blagojevich’s footsteps as another Democrat whose party abandoned him? Has his fall from political grace begun?
In the short span of time this administration has been in power, [...]
If you haven't seen one of those orange and green "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" construction signs in your part of Illinois recently, you may have -- as most of us -- forgotten that in Obama's federal stimulus legislation, there was supposed to be check and balance. Indeed, a Recovery Independent [...]
by Mark Rhoads
According to NASA sources quoted by Investors Business Daily, The publisher of Al Gore's new book on climate change took a NASA image of the Earth for the book cover and Photoshopped it to fake a large image of four hurricanes at one time and accidentally deleted the [...]
The Tribune is reporting today that the Chicago Board of Education will spend more taxpayer money to "hire a former federal prosecutor to investigate how members use their taxpayer-financed expense accounts." The move was prompted by Chicago Tribune inquiries into spending by the late board president Michael Scott, who committed suicide [...]
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the creation of new taxpayer-funded jobs amid the state's growing budget problems.
Quinn signed an executive order over the weekend creating a state public health advocate. Less than two weeks ago, Quinn named a new czar to' [...]
Great piece from the Pantagraph:
"Nearly a year after the tainted appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate and 10 months after he took his seat, the Senate Ethics Committee finally came back with a ruling — a nasty note.
In essence, the committee slapped Burris" [...]
During a conference call with reporters, Burris said he "had landed in Beirut", and underestimated the distance, commenting that he was "a thousand miles" [...]
from the McKenna/Murphy campaign
CHICAGO – Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna called on Governor Pat Quinn to stop hiding the truth from Illinois voters about the fact that Illinois is on the brink of bankruptcy and that our unemployment is at record levels.
“It is time Governor Quinn [...]
from the RNCC
The controversy over the stimulus package continues, both nationally and in Illinois – creating a political problem for the Illinois Democrats who blindly supported the bill that has created more government, but not more jobs.
All three of Illinois’ vulnerable Democrats in the House- Melissa Bean, [...]
Rasmussen Reports this am that political correctness led to 13 American soldiers being shot to death at their home base.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of U.S. voters say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from [...]
We're not proned to making fundraising suggestions to our ideological opponents, but maybe Illinois Democrats might want to tap into their never-ending supply of something similar to what the innovative staff of a Bloomington zoo is using to raise over $16k this month.
Staffers make decorations out of droppings' [...]
Republicans may be getting a chance to see how a U.S. Senator Mark Kirk would respond when taking on a tough fight in the US. Yesterday, at a press conference on how many jobs Obama's health care would cost Illinois, Kirk was asked about his position on the Thomson Correctional' [...]
Public Affairs' Jeff Berkowitz provides a valuable service by helping conservatives get to know the Democrats' possible US Senate candidate in the November 22, 2009 interview below. Not only does David Hoffman provide negative info on Alexi Giannoulias, he gives Republican primary voters reason to find the best candidate to represent Illinois to the [...]
from the Dold for Congress campaign
Nancy Pelosi, along with her fellow Congressional leaders, continue their spendthrift ways, while average Americans tighten their belts to make ends meet. In an effort to “hide the ball” on their reckless mortgaging of our economic future, Congress intends to increase [...]
from the Proft for Governor campaign
You cannot be on the dole of the teachers’ unions and be a credible, effective agent for system change of K-12 in Illinois.
It is on this basis that I have called for Illinois Republicans to stop taking campaign cash from the [...]
Another wise use of the' [...]
The Sun-Times is reporting today that at least 70 "top-paid hires from the Blagojevich era" remain in their state jobs "despite coming under scrutiny in a federal investigation of what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald termed in 2006 were 'very serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud'" [...]
from the Hughes for U.S. Senate campaign
Last week during a trip to Washington D.C. Patrick Hughes received commitments from Richard Perle and Amir Fakhravar to serve as foreign policy advisors to his campaign.
Richard Perle served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan and [...]
by Mark Rhoads
A formerly sensible but still liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, appeared on CNN over the weekend to imitate President Obama's recent rhetoric and ominously delcare that his moderate Democratic colleagues who don't want government-run health insurance shoud not want "to be on the wrong side of" [...]
From the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza -- "For our money, the best ads we've seen so far in the 2010 midterms are in Illinois for Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna. McKenna, a former state party chair, has featured the famous hair of disgraced former Gov." [...]
by Susan Ryan
It happened right here in Illinois. Pheasant Run Resort hosted the first Continental Congress from November 11-22nd. Many Tea Party participants would be aware of this event. It seems appropriate to point out a formalized agenda for limited government on the Illinois Review.
Here's a bit [...]
"Had we the political power" are powerful words former White House staff economist and budget analyst Jim Simpson uses to challenge conservatives to fight back to the devastating policies being enacted and perpetuated on our nation via the Obama Administration. This is a "must read" Examiner.com column for anyone [...]
by John Brown's Ghost
For the last few years, many of us have been screaming from the frozen mountaintops that global warming is a farce intended to make lots of money for those that are warning of ocean covered coasts and melting ice sheets. Profiteers like Al' [...]
by Steve Bartlett
A little-known Illinois law is being manipulated in a way that may hamper the ability of banks to increase their lending and speed up economic growth. Originally designed to prevent two parties from agreeing to harm a third party, the state's civil conspiracy law is being used by' [...]
from Andrzejewski for Governor campaign
The Plainfield Township Republican Organization (PTRO), one of Will County’s largest Republican organizations, has voted to endorse Adam Andrzejewski (ann-gee-EFF-ski) for Governor. The vote was taken during their regular meeting on November 19, 2009, according to Chairman Bob Allen.
“Adam Andrzejewski is [...]
In the 5-way 11th CD Republican primary, there's little real difference between candidates' views on the issues, but there's been a growing amount of push and pull over experience, campaign finances and national attention. The winner of the February 2 GOP primary in the 11th CD will take on freshman Democrat Debbie Halvorson' [...]
Here's what Teri O'Brien says she'll be cookin' on the ol' grill today ... Listen on the web at 2:00 PM CST www.TeriOBrien.com:
The "historic" Senate vote on the 2074 page health care bill Eric Holder Showcases Our Justice System by Guaranteeing the Defendant will be Executed Before the' [...]Somehow, this scene from 1991's "Thelma and Louise" came to mind while reviewing what happened yesterday in the US Senate. US Senator Mary Landrieu got $100 (or $300) million for Louisiana and US Senator Blanche Lincoln got something valuable for her home state of Arkansas to be the 59th and 60th' [...]
by Phyllis Schlafly
Another kooky Barack Obama appointee became publicly known this month and quickly was thrown or voluntarily threw herself under the bus. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director (who led Obama's war on Fox News), said that Mao Tse-tung was one of her two favorite "political philosophers"' [...]
US Senator Jim DeMint reports via his Senate Conservatives Fund newsletter yesterday about last week's visit in DC with Illinois GOP candidate Patrick Hughes and reports Hughes' overwhelming win in a SCF poll. From the newsletter:
Patrick Hughes traveled to Washington this week to meet with Sen. Jim DeMint and [...]
Senator Mitch McConnell's closing words before last night's US Senate cloture vote, which the Democrats won with not a vote to spare, 60 to 39:
“Mr. President, the nation is watching the Senate tonight. The American people know how important this vote is. They’ve seen the bill the Democratic Leaders want [...]
from Concerned Women for America
Tonight the U.S. Senate squeaked through a vote to move the massive health care bill that will fund abortion, penalize married couples, ration care and cause millions of Americans to lose their health coverage.
"This key vote will come back to haunt many of these senators," [...]
Obama care has passed its second obstacle with a 60 for, 39 against vote. 60 votes were needed to close debate on the health care bill. Only 51 votes will be needed for passage. All Republicans voted No.
Illinois' two US Senators -- Durbin and Burris both voted in support of' [...]
Again, not addressing the constitutional rights to be bestowed upon war criminals by bringing them to America, former Governor Jim Thompson, member of the 9-11 Commission, lines up in favors of Gitmo-in-Illinois in an op-ed published in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune:
If the Federal Bureau of Prisons purchases Thomson Correctional Center,' [...]
When asked by show host Judge Andrew Napolitano whether his potential constituents understand that the problem of too much borrowing and spending cannot be solved with more of the same, Ratowitz related a campaign trail encounter with a group of union carpenters “disgusted” by the various federal bailout and stimulus [...]
This morning's Republicans of Lyons Township candidate forum ended with endorsements for Patrick Hughes for U.S. Senate, and fell one vote short of backing Dan Proft for governor. Andy McKenna was the next highest vote gubernatorial vote getter -- at 14. 29 votes were needed for endorsement.
Lyons Township GOP also endorsed' [...]
by Jeffrey Young
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening. Read more
Watch the debate live, to begin shortly on [...]
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by Sam Pierce
Kate at An Ol' Broad's Ramblings has posted a collection of some hard-hitting cartoons in today's edition of "Weasel Time". Several deal with the obvious attempt to begin the "Death Panel" process via new recommendations regarding mammograms and such. One example:
Call the sick Statists' [...]
Today, our country recognizes November 21st as the 10th Anniversary of National Adoption Day. The Republican Party understands how important it is to give every child the opportunity to grow up in a family that provides the love and support they all need. Adoption is something that not only Republicans [...]
Rasmussen found over the past few days that support for civilian trials rather than military tribunals for accused terrorists is not as widespread as the Chicago Tribune and Eric Zorn would lead us to believe. In asking questions about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the jihadists in New' [...]
by Joe Calomino
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced the Senate version of the government-run insurance program as an amendment in the form of a substitute to H.R. 3590. Reid’s bill is a combination of his own objectives and bills passed by the Senate Health, Education and Labor and Senate [...]
On Monday, U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam and Mark Kirk, along with Illinois Policy Institute CEO John Tillman will discuss a new study commissioned by the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) detailing the economic costs of Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page, $1.055 trillion, health care bill.
The IPI findings, including:
The bill will cost more [...]State Rep. Jim Sacia, a Republican from Freeport, says those concerned about Gitmo-in-Illinois are over-reacting. He, as well as others, attended a discussion about Thomson Correctional being used for terrorist suspects and came away feeling better, that Illinois could handle 100 detainees. He wrote in the State Journal-Register:
A fact [...]
Statement from Mark Vargas for Congress
Yesterday the veil of secrecy was lifted from the Federal Reserve in a historic bi-partisan vote by the US House Finance Committee. The margin favoring this vote was nearly 2 to 1, yet our own Congressman Bill Foster voted in the [...]
Senate President John Cullerton and his political hit team have found a Streamwood Democrat to file an objection to the nominating petitions of Steve Rauschenberger, who is running for Illinois State Senate in the 22nd district.
The basis for their objection is NOT the number of signatures [...]
Let's recap what recent campaign reforms have brought us:
In 2007, the politicians in the Illinois General Assembly moved the Illinois primary to February in order to help one of it's own (Barack Obama) in the Presidential Primary. No coincidentally, the move had the added benefit of making any challenges [...]by Sam Pierce
Tired of following the lead of party establishment types who have likely been in their positions for way too long? Disgusted with the procession of career politicians being paraded as the "best chance for victory"? Had enough of the people that contributed to the budgetary, entitlement, and [...]
Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama (see below) requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received a [...]
from Ethan Hastert for Congress campaign
GENEVA, IL – Ethan Hastert will welcome Newt Gingrich to the 14th Congressional District on Friday, December 11, 2009 for a fundraising event at Pheasant Run in St. Charles, IL, to benefit the Ethan Hastert for Congress Campaign. The breakfast event [...]
The folks in Standish Michigan are concerned about transferring Gitmo prisoners to their area, just as the people of Illinois are...despite what the liberal media and radical Democrats are trying to diminish with their pre-9-11 sarcasm.
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From Garrett M. Peck: The Plainfield Township Republican Party officially endorsed the following for the February 2, 2010 GOP primary:
IL Governor--Adam Andrzejewski US Congressional District 11 Adam Kinzinger and District 13 Judy Biggert Will County Board District 5 -- John Argoudelis; Lee Goodson; Brian Smith Will [...]from the Proft for Governor campaign
Last night the Southern Will County Republican Organization (SWCRO) which comprises six rural townships in Will County endorsed conservative Republican candidate Dan Proft for Governor.
“I want to thank SWCRO Chairman Bill Weidling and all of the Republican precinct committeemen from the [...]
The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to assess upfront fees on financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the Federal Reserve.
"This amendment...will create a system going forward where we force the big-bank, Wall Street fat cats" [...]
From the RNC -- 10 things you should know about Senator Reid's government-run health care plan ...
View This Research Briefing At www.GOP.com:
1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid,' [...]
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Speaking after an event in Aurora where he collected Mayor Tom Weisner's endorsement, Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn said again Thursday that a tax increase he proposed earlier in the year would be the best way to help solve the states budget problems.
Democrat U.S. Rep. Bill Foster likes to project himself as some average man. A poor scientist who can understand the struggles of the middle class.
Unfortunately, it's a lie.
According to Opensecrets.org, Foster is the richest congressman in Illinois, and 19th richest in all of Congress. His' [...]
According to the Daily Herald, both the Green Party and the Democrat Party are working to remove Richard B. Mayers - an admitted anti-Semite - from the ballot in February. Not surprising that someone who once made a Nazi salute in a Lake County court would find a home [...]
With the 2010 election getting closer, Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson is trying to play both sides on the plan to sell Thomson prison to the feds in order to house terrorists from Gitmo. She told the Herald-Review that she "needs more information before she" [...]
by Mark Rhoads
President Obama, who was a mediocre and non-leadership state senator in Springfield, has labored to explain why its OK to throw people in jail if they don't buy health insurance the bureaucrats approve. He often points out that many states require people to buy auto collision insurance if' [...]
The National Council on Citizenship found that in comparing the states of New Hampshire and Illinois, that Illinoisans are disengaging from the political process, now ranking 40th in the nation:
The Illinois Civic Health Index indicates that residents of the state are disappointed and disengaged. Recent political scandals and [...]
As if you haven't heard it all yet, well, Illinois now has a Democrat gay leather master running for State Rep. From the Chicago Reader's "A Kink in the Campaign":
Laiacona, a part-time computer science teacher at Columbia College, is running as a reformer against the incumbent, Deborah [...]
from Kristina Rasmussen, Illinois Policy Institute
Picking up on a story from ABC News about stimulus jobs created in phantom congressional districts, I sorted the Illinois job count spreadsheet from Recovery.gov by recipient congressional district, and I found jobs/awards reported for the following "districts":
District "0"
20th District
21st District
22nd District
28th District
33rd [...]
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the state's unemployment rate is now 11%. That's up from 10.5%. The river of unemployed is rising.
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