From the Heritage Foundation: Is individualism adequate to sustain liberty and rein in government? This issue surfaced during the Republican primary debate last week in Las Vegas. “This country has always put people in groups” and treated them accordingly, said Representative Ron Paul (R–TX). America needs to move away from this kind of “group mentality,” [...]
The Occupy Wall Street’s Declaration of Dependence
October 31, 2011 By
From FamilySecurityMatters.org: If the unwashed and odiferous masses of Occupy Wall Street – that less-than-one-percent of the American population, most of whom are at work and do not have the free time to camp out in public or private parks – originally gathered to protest a grab-bag of disparate, alleged and imagined offenses, they are [...]
Misguided by Higher Education
October 31, 2011 By
From LewRockwell.com: When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, we saw how state-managed capitalism works. Favored companies are allowed to make as much money as they can. But they are protected from going broke. Certain firms are deemed “too big to fail,” by virtue of the key role they play in the economy, or at [...]
Surprise! No warming in last 11 years
October 31, 2011 By
From HotAir.com: Last week, a research team at Berkeley led by a former climate change skeptic released a study of global temperatures that intended to set the record straight on controversial data collected by the East Anglia Project, NASA, and other organizations that have acted as advocates for action based on anthropogenic global warming. Professor [...]
Letters to Barack: Distant Drums
October 31, 2011 By
Dear Barack, You won’t believe it, but I ran into my friend Bob again – remember the teacher at the local high school? I think he’s starting to crack! He says he’s been hearing the sound of drums, faint at first, and growing slowly and steadily louder. He says they are coming from all directions [...]
Online schools offer learning virtually anywhere
October 31, 2011 By
From komando.com: Every morning, more than 225,000 kids in 27 states roll out of bed and attend public K-12 schools simply by turning on their computers. No waiting for buses. No cliques or bullies. No anxiety about gym class or the cafeteria. The old image of “home schooling” has been dramatically changed, thanks to high-speed [...]
America should listen to Paul Ryan
October 31, 2011 By
From Star Parker: Last week, one of the Republican Party’s young stars, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc), spoke at the Heritage Foundation and gave forth his vision of America and what we need to do today to restore our vitality. Listening to Ryan, I’m reminded of the late, great Congressman Jack Kemp, for whom he once [...]
Legal Corruption: Substitute Teach 1 Day get $108,000 Pension from TRS
October 30, 2011 By
(Revised October 30th, originally posted five days ago.) How many pigs can fit at the pig-trough? Steven Preckwinkle, Illinois Federation of Teachers lobbyist, made $93 substitute teaching for one day in 2007. However he made up for that rather modest payment by being made eligible for the Teachers Retirement System with 16 years service credit. [...]
Massaging the news for the masses: Media shape their protest reporting to fit a preconceived plot
October 30, 2011 By
From Robert Knight: Liberal press bias has been so stark and the lying by omission so blatant that it’s time to take stock again. Here are some examples culled from the “mainstream media,” a term conditioned with quote marks because the media are seriously out of step with America’s mainstream. Comparing Occupy Wall Street to [...]
Illinois Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Score Card tracks IL legislator votes during Spring 2011 session
Primary elections scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Illinois are fast approaching and will be here before we know it, with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah sandwiched in between. To help Illinoisans decide whether the voting records of their elected Springfield senators and representative matched their rhetoric, the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute recently published its [...]