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Notes on Medicaid compiled from the Illinois Policy Institute, the Illinois Republican Senate Caucus, and news reports. From the Illinois Policy Institute: When individuals purchase health insurance or choose employee benefits, they make decisions…
Read MoreUPDATE: For an even longer list click here. (Just wait until the toxophiliacs start to demand equal rights. There will be hell to pay. And you wondered why you liked those Robin Hood movies…
Read MoreBy John Biver Sure, it’s a red state – but it’s also a big state with big state challenges – and it’s a place where a lot of Democrats live. Before Jeb Bush won…
Read MorePublic opinion polls showing the progress of the “homosexual rights” movement are much like the poll numbers showing support for abortion in the early 1990s. Back then only the most principled political candidates ran as openly pro-life.
Read MoreIf the print media wants to reverse its declining circulation numbers — and if the electronic media wants to stop its ratings from dropping, they might want to stop acting like a political party, do their…
Read MoreCan Judy Baar Topinka match Alan Keyes’ Election Day performance? Circumstances make this a serious question. There’s a good chance Topinka might set a new low for an Illinois governor’s race just like Keyes did…
Read MoreBy John Biver Supporters of the Republican platform are being told that Judy Barr Topinka is to be preferred over Rod Blagojevich. That certainly isn’t the case on important social issues, where both are…
Read MoreBy Bill Zettler Where has all the District 95 money gone? Surprise, surprise it went to the teachers. How many District 95 taxpayers have had their salaries increase by 46% over the last 4…
Read MoreAs printed in the Daily Herald: Give ’em a million, save a billion. That is my answer to Darwin Heide’s letter urging all of us to call Springfield and let them know how upset…
Read MoreKnowing history as I do – I’m betting that we’re as capable of coming up with a working moral code on our own as we are of instituting the laws of chemistry or physics or gravity.
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Many conservative Republicans don’t belong to the Karl Rove fan club for one simple reason: they believe winning elections is only the first step to victory. For them, governing success is the necessary second step….
Read MoreKevin Killion of www.illinoisloop.org reported it this way: As expected, Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s engineered takeover of the ISBE [Illinois State Board of Education] is now a reality. Robert Schiller is out as the Illinois state…
Read MoreThis isn’t a request for Newt Gingrich to move to Illinois, but rather to visit. Republicans here are in desperate need of a little assistance, primarily from someone who can effectively articulate the Republican…
Read MoreJack Ryan’s exit from the U.S. Senate campaign has all but given Barack Obama a November election victory in June. Unless…unless the Republican leadership picks the right candidate to take his place. If they…
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Despairing over the gap between where we are and where we need to be with Illinois political leadership led me to take last week off from writing a column — and then on Saturday, President…
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