The state of Illinois is broke(not to mention broken). The corporate and individual income tax increase of two years ago has been insufficient to make a dent in the states backlog of nearly $10 billion in unpaid bills let alone any of our other fiscal problems(like the nearly $100 billion in unfunded pension obligations). But, don’t worry the Illinois Department of Revenue has an idea, | Read More »
Today the Illinois Senate approved a joint resolution that denounced the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling and called for Congress to send to the states a Constitutional amendment to overturn that ruling. Joining the Senates Democrats in voting for the measure were Republicans Karen McConnaughay and Pamela Althoff. 8 other Republican Senators voted against the joint resolution while the remaining 9 Republican Senators along with | Read More »
Del Wasso is a well know progressive activist in Northern Illinois working with or being a part of Occupy Rockford, Moveon.org, the Rockford Coffee Party(while that lasted). He is a long-standing critic of congressman Paul Ryan and his budget and an active supporter of Illinois 17th district congresswoman Cheri Bustos(D). In a Facebook posting on Thursday Wasso danced on the grave of a 2-year-old accidentally | Read More »
Sara Feigenholtz Illinois state Representative Sara Feigenholtz(D), of the 12th district, in a recent interview with the St.Charles Patch compared supporters of traditional marriage to Nazis. The representative for the 12th Illinois House District now has her sights set on helping the LGBT community secure the right to marry. She has been a staunch advocate on this issue. “For me, the most precious thing I | Read More »
Since the 7th circuit court of appeals ruled that Illinois ban on carrying concealed firearms was unconstitutional a clock has been ticking. The Illinois General Assembly and Governor Pat Quinn have until June 9th to pass and sign into law a bill that would allow for concealed carry in Illinois. If they can’t, or won’t, do that then Illinois residents get concealed carry anyway as | Read More »
Campus Ministry USA pastors Jed and Cindy Smock were met with mockery and disrespect from approximately 100 students when they began preaching on the steps of a campus building at Eastern Illinois University. One student grab another and kissed him when the Smock’s began talking about biblical beliefs towards homosexual marriage. Another student traded a Bible for a bag of potato chips. A third student | Read More »
Bob Ryan On the Tuesday broadcast of ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan said that he expect the Boston marathon terror bomb to be a, “Domestic situation and not an international situation.” He would also say that we should “reflect” on our history of domestic terrorism and that it would, “help the situation a little bit.” Ryan would also say, emphasis his | Read More »
Saturday afternoon the Illinois Republican state central committee meet in Tinley Park to decide that fate of embattled GOP chairman Pat Brady. Following the inability of the IL GOP to gain the Governors mansion in 2010 and the absolute shellacking Republicans in Illinois got in the 2012 election(losing 5 congressional seats and Democrats gaining super majorities in the state House and Senate) there was a | Read More »
New Rochelle, New York, city council member Jared R. Rice(D) thinks that the Gadsden flag, also known as the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag, is offensive. So earlier this month Mr. Rice complained about the flag flying on a flag pole at the New Rochelle Armory to the city’s manager asking for it to be removed. The manager initially declined, however the Democrat majority of | Read More »
Late last week I was sent a tip that Planned Parenthood of Illinois was working on acquiring a piece of property in Rockford, Illinois. After having done some digging into the matter I can report the following. According to the real estate agent for the property in question, the old VA clinic on East State Street(in front of Rockford College), Planned Parenthood did make an | Read More »
It has been interesting to hear the arguments being made in support of same sex marriage these last few days as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning California’s proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act(DOMA). There has been a social media campaign on this subject with supporters of redefining the word marriage changing their profile pictures to an equal sign or the | Read More »
On Tuesday night former congressman and new AM 560 WIND radio show host Joe Walsh spoke to members of the Sauk Valley Tea Party about low information voters. Joe says that calling people low information voters is being nice and that what we really have is a nation full of people who have grown stupid, uninformed, illinformed, uneducated and lazy. The Joe Walsh radio show | Read More »
Monday night the Republican Study Committee chaired by Steve Scalise(R-LA) introduced its “Back to Basics” alternative to the Paul Ryan budget plan. Where the Ryan plan attempts to balance the federal budget in 10 years, the RSC budget released tonight does so in 4 years. Among this things included in this budget plan is a return of federal spending to 2008 levels and freezes it | Read More »
During Friday nights town hall meeting in Rochelle about the second amendment and various gun laws being discussed in the Illinois Legislature with state Rep. Tom Demmer an unidentified Rochelle police officer spoke up and said, “As a police officer we do all these school shooting demonstrations. (HB)1156 basically saying its the assault weapons problem, but we all know its whats attached to the finger | Read More »
Now that the Club for Growth has announced that it intends to back a primary challenger to my congressman Adam Kinzinger(IL-16), I have to openly wonder if Karl Rove and his misnamed Conservative Victory Fund, will come to Kinzinger’s rescue. Adam Kinzinger Lets start off by explaining why Adam Kinzinger is so disliked in conservative circles, both nationally and within Illinois. As The Club for | Read More »
Today a Genoa-Kingston Middle School student’s parent is claiming that a teacher ordered his son to cover his US Marine themed t-shirt or be suspended. Dan McIntyre says that his son Michael has wore the shirt to school many times in the past and that he is a big fan of the branch of the US military. Dan McIntyre says that, “A teacher noticed the | Read More »
On this past Monday’s edition of WWE’s “Monday Night Raw” Jack Swagger, the number 1 contender for Alberto Del Rio’s world heavyweight championship, gave a “State of the Union” speech(watch below). After having been out of action for months, Swagger was brought back to WWE programing in the lead up to the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view with a new twist on his gimmick and character; that | Read More »
Dear Mayor Rahm Emanuel, In the past 13 months the city of Chicago has seen nearly 550 murders, 42 of them in the month of January alone. It is more deadly to be on the streets of Chicago than the battlefields of Afghanistan. Nearly all of these murders under your watch have been a result of gang members using handguns, something which the city of | Read More »
After the fiscal cliff “crap sandwich” deal was agreed to and a bill written the 100 members of the United States Senate had less than 10 minutes to read it before voting on it. Town Hall-Mike Lee: Senators only had six minutes to read fiscal cliff bill before voting Members of the Illinois state Senate had one day to read over two anti-second amendment gun | Read More »
Today with the help of 11 House Republicans Speaker Mike Madigan(D-Chicago) was able to pass legislation that would grant illegal immigrants drivers licenses. Having passed the Illinois Senate in early December the measure now heads to Governor Pat Quinn’s desk to be signed into law. Here are the 11 House Republicans, including most of the leadership, we can thank for giving Illegal Immigrants drivers licenses | Read More »
Yesterday the Illinois State Rifle Association sent out word that Illinois Senate President John Cullerton was prepared today to introduce a “near total ban” on firearms in the state of Illinois. Cullerton To Introduce Near Total Gun Ban In Illinois Today, Cullerton’s fellow Chicagoland Democrats did just that. Ladies and Gentleman allow me to introduce to you HB1263, Illinois’ assault weapons ban. Which was introduced | Read More »
Today Senator Dianne Feinstein(D-CA) released details about her proposed “assault weapons” ban, which upon review actually is a ban on many handguns and magazine clips. The Senator for California is trying to revive her 1994 assault weapons ban in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT, with some new twist designed to make a mockery of the Second Amendment. Among | Read More »
With Speaker John Boehner’s Plan B(as in Bad) having gone down in flames last night now is the time to look back on Boehner’s negotiating ability, or more to the point the lack thereof. First up we have the Pledge to America Boehner and crew crafted in the 2010 election cycle. In the Pledge Boehner and the boys promised to cut $100 billion in federal | Read More »
Appearing on Fox News Sunday following the mass murder of 20 children and 7 adults in Newtown, CT, congressman Louie Gohmert(R-TX) expressed his wish that the principal of Sandy Hook elementary school had been armed herself so she could have killed Adam Lanza before he went on his deadly rampage. Responding to Gohmert’s comments Monday New York City Mayor Michael “Nanny” Bloomberg said that such | Read More »
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