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Clear-thinking people everywhere cheer on the great work being done by Governor Scott Walker and the Republicans in the legislature in Wisconsin. That said, don’t think for a minute that watching the events unfold…
Read MoreIt’s always fun to see failed politicians endorsing other failed politicians. The cast of characters in Illinois endorsing Mitt Romney provides a good example. Here are just two names. First…
Read MoreIncompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It: A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too…
Read MoreIf you like the Illinois GOP, you’ll love Mitt Romney, Part 14. In a Washington Times piece yesterday titled “Critics hit Romney job-creation record: Cite workers that left Massachusetts,” a little light is finally…
Read MoreIf you like the Illinois GOP, you’ll love Mitt Romney, Part 11. In the past twenty years I’ve heard only two Illinois state legislators speak at length and in depth on an issue –…
Read MoreI wrote the follow articles a few years ago – and the content still applies…
Read MoreThis column has been exasperated for many years now with the flat-line GOP caucuses in our state house and senate. There have been many voices calling on our elected Illinois Republican legislators to offer up an alternative plan to the Democrats’ tax tax, spend spend, borrow borrow – so far to no avail.
Read MoreThis latest tax hike in Springfield is nothing more than organized political theft. The only reason Democrats run this state and are able to pull off such a heist is because for too long Illinois Republicans…
Read MoreFor many years this column has been asking our 70-80 Republican state legislators to present a governing vision for Illinois. A few legislators have presented excellent outlines of what’s wrong along with their ideas…
Read MoreJust as we suffered losing another state-level election in Illinois earlier this month, Republican Party Platform supporters may suffer another test if the so-called “civil unions” bill comes up for a vote in our General Assembly….
Read MoreThe question in the headline could actually be posed about any and every issue that faces our state and our nation. This column continually argues that it’s all about public opinion, and our legislators…
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Maybe the better question is – can the Illinois Republican Party learn? Eight full years in the minority, a state fiscal mess getting worse by the day, an activated Tea Party movement now serving…
Read MoreAmanda Reinecker from the Heritage Foundation writes this about the federal fiscal mess – and it applies perfectly to our state mess as well:
“Overspending Causes Deficits. Period.”
Read MoreDid you know a movie was made about the Illinois GOP a few years ago? I missed it when it came out. It won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 2007. In May it was recommended to me and last weekend I watched it. I give it five stars.
“The Lives of Others” is a movie set in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It focuses on the activities of the Stasi, the secret police of the Communist Party. Anyone familiar with Republican politics in Illinois during the past twenty or more years will recognize some very familiar human behaviors in action.
Read MoreThe June copy of the Heartland Institute’s fantastic newspaper School Reform News finally was in my mail box the other day and a quick perusal of it reminded me of this terrible news from last month: “Illinois House Votes Down Voucher Bill; Bipartisan Effort Undercut by Republican Opposition.”
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