Illinois Conservative Summit, Full Report
As mentioned in the earlier post, I was invited to cover the Illinois Conservative Summit sponsored by the United Republican Fund of Illinois. The URF is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and is Illinois' oldest, independent, conservative GOP organization. The URF's charge is to advance conservative policies and principles by supporting candidates that will advance limited government, individual rights,...
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Governator Vetoes Union Bill Again
The United Farm Workers union wants to enshrine in law a new way for potential members to vote in representation. For years now, the UFW has tried to push Sacramento to OK a plan to allow potential union members to cast their vote away from their workplace. The union claims that if union representatives can visit possible members at...
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Democrat Lawmaker Accidentally Proves High Taxes Hurt Business
You see it all the time, Democrats in any particular state or county government proposing to raise sales taxes to raise "much needed" revenues -- I say "much needed" because spending cuts are never considered an option for what ails a government budget. But these money-hungry Democrats never once consider the harm they are doing to the businesses in...
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Sweden's Healthcare Failures: A Warning to U.S.
David Hogberg of the National Policy Center has an interesting, in depth study of the mess that is Sweden's single payer healthcare system from 2007 that is very relevant to today's discussion of Obamacare because much of what Obama wants has already proving a failure in Sweden. "The experience of Sweden demonstrates," Hogberg says, "that when a nation adopts market-oriented...
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Democrats Cancel Patriotic Music
My friends across the aisle always tell me that Democrats love America and are as patriotic as anyone on the right. Unfortunately for them, it is hard to believe that their party is on the same all-American page as the rank and file especially since Nancy Pelosi's Democrat controlled House of Representatives tried to get rid of the patriotic...
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Ready For the Newest Obamacare Messaging?
ABC's Jake Tapper has an interesting look inside the Obama messaging factory as it appears to be making plans to change its way of trying to sell Obamacare to the country. This change is in the offing because Obama is thus far losing the debate and they are all painfully aware of this in the White House. Tapper has...
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Union Expense Forces 92-Year-Old Restaurant to Close
The Cafe des Artistes has been doing a steady restaurant business in New York City since 1917, but is now forced to close its doors. One of the main reasons for this happens to be the fact that the Cafe is unfortunate enough to be a union restaurant and the exorbitant costs of supporting a union workforce has contributed to...
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U.S. Government Killing Dialysis Patients
Want an example of why government healthcare in the U.S. is a dangerous proposition? USA Today has a lengthy story on kidney dialysis and how new research is showing that having dialysis treatments more often seems to be keeping patients alive and healthy longer than the traditional thrice weekly treatments. The piece also sadly shows that the U.S. has higher...
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NRSC in Colorado: Hey, Let's Endorse a Tax Raiser!
Nationally, Americans are beginning to again trust Republicans over Democrats on taxes and the economy. The overreach in spending and the constant Democratic drum beat of wanting to raise taxes on "the rich" to pay for a massive enlargement -- and engorgement, really -- of big government has dug into the high approval rates that Democrats had enjoyed for well...
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Chgo Trib's Eric Zorn Doesn't Mind That Teddy Got Away With Murder
If this isn't the perfect example that liberals don't care who has to die in order to make sure that left wing policies win the day, then nothing does. We can see this prime example in Eric Zorn's horrid August 28 editorial where he thanks ... well, whatever deity leftists believe in, if any... that the country didn't quickly find...
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A Warning For Obama: President Hoover's Fealty to Unions Worsened Great Depression
An economist is saying that President Hoover set the stage to worsen The Great Depression because of his pro-labor union stance. Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise...
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Obama Administration Announces Not Enforcing Union Reporting Laws
Are you a union member trying to find out information of the criminal actions and shady financial dealings of your union? Well don't expect Obama and his toady in the Labor Secretary's office, Hilda Solis, to help you uncover any illegalities perpetrated by your union bosses. Solis' department has just announced that it is suspending the stringent reporting requirements...
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With Papers Failing Everywhere, Union Members Mad For Keeping Jobs
The journalists of Indianapolis want us to feel sorry for them. See, they've voluntarily signed a contract that includes a 10% pay cut and precludes raises during this contract's 2 year term. And they are whining about it. In a day when papers are failing all across the country, the guild members of Indy journos want us to shed a...
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$15 Million Stimulus Spent for 1,095 Canadian Tourists in Montana
What is the cost of three Canadian visitors a day? Fifteen million dollars in Obamabucks, apparently. Worse, this waste of money wasn't something the president of "transparency" seemed disposed to let us easily discover. Still, the Boston Globe reports that $15 mil is the amount of so-called stimulus money that Obama allowed to be spent by the state of Montana...
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Beware of Bitter, Old, Lefty, White Women With Dreadlocks
I haven't seen so many lies, misconstructions, affectations, and guffaw-invoking absurdities in a single editorial in a major American newspaper for a very long time. In fact I thought it wasn't possible to see so much foolishness in such a small space without satire being the ultimate goal. In the L.A. Times, however, Anne Lamott has succeeded in making a...
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A Night With WSJs John Fund
Tonight I am blogging from an evening with the Wall Street Journal's John Fund sponsored by the Illinois Policy Institute a conservative, economic policy group out of Cook County, Illinois. We are meeting in the sumptuous legal library at the Five Star Center at the top of 190 S. LaSalle Ave., Chicago with a commanding view of the city appearing...
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Tax for Clunkers
Yep, you read that right. In many states car buyers that turned in their "clunkers" for up to $4,500 off the cost of a new car are finding out that they have to pay state sales tax on the $4,500 too. And still others just might find out next year that they'll have to pay income tax on that "free"...
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Despite Obama's Claim, Obamacare WILL Fund Abortions
Obama has accused opponents of abortion of "fabrication" when they say that Obamacare provides federal funds for abortions. He's calling them liars despite the fact that FactCheck.org basically sides with abortion opponents claiming that the president's polices will fund abortion. So, who's fabricating now, Mr. Obama? On August 19, Obama made the assertion that federal funding for abortion is a...
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Michael Kent Curtis: Just Another Sold-Out Leftist Professor
Michael Kent Curtis, the Donald Smith Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at Wake Forest University, has not only proven his ignorance of the facts, but he has also shown that truth does not matter a whit to him if it gets in the way of common liberal propaganda. He proved this in his blather in the Houston Chronicle on...
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Some Interesting Admissions By WaPost's Kurtz
In his Washington Post column for August 25, Howard Kurtz sound exasperated, fed up with those moron Americans that dare to have an opinion against Obama's socialist take over of the country's healthcare system. Oh, and he felt the need to slam Governor Sarah Palin, too... but what's new about that? What is unusual, though, is the admission that Kurtz...
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Obama's Stimulus a Farce in New Hampshire
One of the first states to attempt to tally the "new jobs" that Obama's stimulus created has issued its first report and the news is rather discreditable to say the least. New Hampshire's Director of the Economic Stimulus, Bud Fitch, recently put out his report and he is asserting that the stimulus "saved" or created 796 jobs in all of...
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Obama Never Saw This Cartoon...
...or maybe he did and just learned the wrong lesson. Lets not throw away our freedoms on Obamaism, shall we?...
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Why Do They Let Obama Get Away With it?
Supposed conservative talk show host, Michael Smerconish, let President Obama lie repeatedly in last week's celebrated one-on-one interview. Obama laid his lies right out there and Smerconish didn't say a word. But the talk radio host isn't the only one to sit back and let this president get away with it. In fact, not a single soul has confronted President...
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Fashion Reporter Speaks for Old Media Well
I have to admit up front that I don't give a flying fig about what anyone wears as long as it is appropriate to the setting. I mean, wearing flip flops in a visit to the White House is wrong, but wearing them on the beach is fine. Wearing shorts in front of a judge is disrespectful, but wearing them...
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Catholic News Agency Needs Civics Lesson
I am sad, today. The Catholic News Agency seems to have shown that its reporters don't know a blamed thing about the Constitution. Unfortunately, this uninformed reporter for CNS is not an isolated case as too many Americans haven't a clue about what is actually in the Constitution of the United States. For CNS, reporter Chaz Muth published a story...
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