edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
The story titled "Transparency in Action - How a'" [...]
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 [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services' assessment of the Democrats' Health Care plan shows HR 3962 will cost Americans at least $935 billion more over the next ten years. But if the plan reduces nation's care of senior citizens by over $500 billion as HR 3962's language specifies, it will cost [...]
by Sam Pierce
Concerned Illinois citizens have an important choice to make on February 2nd, 2010. We must choose the Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat once held, albeit briefly and often in absentia, by President Barack Obama. We must choose from an informed position as opposed to letting [...]
Turns out, Bush’s tax cuts hurt the economy. Wha…?
From the Citizens for Tax Justice:
And yet, many of the lawmakers who argue that the health care reform legislation is “too costly” are the same lawmakers who supported the Bush tax cuts. Their own voting record demonstrates that health care [...]
by Jim Kouri
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a loyal Democrat and liberal-left ideologue, blamed the Fort Hood massacre --perpetrated last Thursday by a radical Muslim soldier --on firearms.
"Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda," said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee [...]
Pictured above is the St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, the physical heart and soul of the citizens movement for freedom in East Germany. Here, Johannes Sebastian Bach spent most of his career overseeing the musical life of the church, playing the organ, and composing [...]
by Sam Pierce
This is not intended to paint the entire generation that followed the "Greatest Generation" with the same red brush. There are certainly patriotic citizens and those who cherish the liberty our founders established among the offspring of the generation who fought World War II. I am related by blood [...]
“Limp-wrist Strong-arm”from the Dold campaign
Illinois' 10th District Congressional Candidate Robert Dold denounced the passage of Speaker Pelosi's health care plan Saturday, citing it as another example of a big government takeover that will hurt senior citizens and the middle class by imposing new mandates and taxes on small businesses, raising taxes [...]
from the Dundee's Stop Light Camera
East Dundee resident Allen Skillicorn is tired of local government corruption, lack of fiscal transparency, and the encroachment of civil liberties. In response, Skillicorn founded Grassroots Revolution, an organization designed to enable average citizens to take back control of their government, including the removal of' [...]
by Mark Silva
The 2010 Census will count the undocumented.
Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, advanced a plan to prevent the Census Bureau from counting non-citizens in its conduct of the 2010 Census.
The Senate's Democrats blocked that in a 60-39 vote today.
The Census not only is the basis for apportioning [...]
by the Ghost of John Brown
Recently I received in the mail, a very pretty flier from my dear Congressman, Bill Foster. Oh, it is very nicely done. 8-1/2 x 11, full fold out. It has pictures of a concerned congressman listening intently to citizens. It [...]
by Noam N. Levey
As House Democrats prepare to vote Saturday on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's healthcare system, they picked up an important endrosment this morning from the 40-million member AARP, the nation's largest senior citizens group.
The group, which has been pushing for a health overhaul for [...]
A reader sends in the following scan and info showing one of our neighbors who resides at Sunnyside & Magnolia:by John Bambenek
These days it seems that every politician is saying they are a reformer and that they're the outsider. Their actions, however, show that in most cases this is a sham. Two recent actions by the General Assembly show "faux reform" that makes the situation in Springfield worse, not' [...]
Anything to say Jan Schakowsky? Outraged seniors, outraged citizens if this monstrosity passes. I've looked for this video off and on the last few years. Apparently CBS unearthed it from their archives recently and it's up now. Watch:' [...]
Steven M. Cohen wrote a brilliant op-ed at GetLiberty.org, posted today. Cohen writes about how the Obama Administration "and its congressional acolytes have in similar fashion attacked citizens who have exercised their free speech rights at the numerous health care town meetings held all over the" [...]
With the passage of HB 1306, local citizens that vote to outlaw video poker machines in their localities will have to wait two years before the referendum goes into effect. With the growing number of municipalities and counties resisting the state legislature's carte blanche to video poker machines, the state's Coin [...]
Over the last year, misconduct complaints against Chicago police officers have increased by nearly 19 percent, according to the city agency that investigates allegations from citizens.
Much of [...]
There is a problem with the government trampling the Constitution and it is not only coming form the Democrats. My friend Ken over at Blue Collar Muse has a story about how the AZ GOP are squashing the 1st Amendment Rights of local citizens in Maricopa [...]
Okay.... the Tribune's front page story is about citizens uniting to make their neighborhoods safer. You're an alderman with highly publicized violent outbreaks in your ward. What do you say in an email blast to your concerned constituents?
