By: Gwynplaine (Diary)  |  April 19th at 01:09 AM  | 

  On April 17, Illinois unions went to considerable expense to rally 2,000 union workers outside the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Springfield, Illinois, where inside Gov. Scott Walker delivered a thirty minute speech at the invitation of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. Symbolism is everything at events like this, so laborers were treated to no less than three giant, inflatable rats of the kind used in front of financial institutions | Read More »

By: Gwynplaine (Diary)  |  June 29th at 01:42 AM  | 

Anyone looking for proof that progressives are content to pauperize the union one state at a time need look no further than Illinois. Governor Fagin, er, Pat Quinn and the den of pick-pockets in the Democrat controlled General Assembly are plundering monies earmarked for charities, revealing a fiscal reality awash in desperation, flim-flammery and, well, tackiness. By checking boxes on state income tax forms, well-meaning | Read More »