Author: Michael Illions

You can listen to our exclusive interview from Thursday with Bob Barr, who was my guest in the Commissioner’s Corner on Attitude! Radio. It looks like Bob Barr is putting the final touches on turning his exploratory committee into a presidential committee and may soon announce his intention to seek the nomination for president for […]

I returned yesterday after spending a couple days in Harrisburg PA, attending the PA Leadership Conference, which featured over 500+ conservatives and speaks like Michael Steele, Pat Toomey, Michelle Malkin, Paul Kengor, Grover Norquist and others. On Friday night, I hosted a live BlogTalkRadio show from the event with Skye from Midnight Blue and our […]

John McCain has been courting Conservative House members and has met with Fred Thompson’s biggest ally, Zach Wamp: Arizona Sen. John McCain , eager to fortify ties with conservatives as his party’s presumed presidential nominee, huddled last week with Rep. Zach Wamp , R-Tenn., who had been the Capitol Hill ringleader for Fred Thompson ‘s […]

Keystone Cops: The Keystone Cops was a series of silent film comedies featuring a totally incompetent group of policemen New Jersey Republican County Chairman. Keep incompetent and comedy and just substitute policemen with New Jersey Republican County Chairman and you just described the current status of NJ GOP leadership in the State of New Jersey. […]

Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death for his role in assisting patients to commit suicide, has decided on a new career now that he is done serving time in jail for murder: Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for his role in an assisted suicide, will take on another crusade Monday: a race […]

With the news last week that NY GOP Congressman Tom Reynolds was calling it quits and not seeking reelection, the NY GOP has been searching for a viable candidate to run and hold the seat. The Democrats have also targeted this seat for their own. The list of names mentioned within the political rank and […]

I have been Pro-Life for as long as I could remember and it was never a religious thing for me and I am not a “Christian Conservative”, or a member of the “Religious Right”, as I am not a Christian. So for me, it wasn’t God’s message or the Church’s teaching that I was following […]

It was 28 years ago today that the USA Hockey Team, and back then, it was college kids playing, not today’s “dream team” concoctions that never win, shocked the world. The USA Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid to advance to the Gold Medal game, which they won against Finland. In […]

Inspired by John’s various and very well received YouTube “commericals” he put together spotlighting Fred Thompson, I took a stab at putting together a commercial to show the horrible history of donating TO Democrats and positions that line her up WITH Democrats, that Republican Senate candidate Anne Estabrook has. FYI – Believe it or not, […]

As the Iowa caucus creeps closer and closer, the target on Rudy’s back gets bigger and bigger: DUBUQUE, IA — It’s no secret that Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler isn’t a Rudy fan. But tonight, within spitting distance of Giuliani’s rival GOP candidate Romney, Scheffler explicitly urged Iowa Christians to oppose Giuliani in the […]

If you had to guess that a bill the Democrats were going to introduce on crime and punishment would be more pro-victim or pro-criminal, which would you choose? {insert Jeopardy music here} Yep you guessed it. Pro-criminal is the correct answer. The Democrats who feature killing the unborn child as one of their major platform […]

Presidential hopeful John Edwards promises that if elected president, he will introduce an entire new suite of programs similar to the programs introduced with the New Deal John Edwards says if he’s elected president, he’ll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, […]

The 2007 Washington Briefing Summit, sponsored by the Family Research Council, is in the books. Dubbed the number one conference in the Country for ‘Value Voters’, the event drew over 5,000 people. Straw Poll Results Conservatives with Attitude! was able to cover the event live over the last 2 days and wanted to share with […]

Yes, that is my title to this blog post. I have done a complete 180 on my original calls for Congress to intervene and investigate the rampant steorid and drug use in Professional Wrestling. My original thoughts after the Chris Benoit Double Murder-Suicide was that someone had to do something and that Congress should get […]

In what amounts to giving the US the finger, Iraqi’s Parliment decided to take a summer vacation and head to the Jersey shore, and will return in September: BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament on Monday shrugged off U.S. criticism and adjourned for a month, as key lawmakers declared there was no point waiting any longer for […]

Congressional panel will conduct investigation to see whether Mexico played a role in helping prosecute the 2 Border Agents: The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight will hold a hearing on the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. In prison since January, they face 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, […]