We are now in the final week of the normal Legislative Session. The House under Michael Madigan and Democrat control have passed 72 spending bills and so far all of them anticipate making the 2011 “temporary” tax increase permanent. He also continues to put a so called millionaire tax on the ballot for November. Madigan […]
Editorial: Institutionalized Racism in Illinois Public Schools
May 18, 2014 by 3 Comments
The Chicago Tribune’s Diane Rado reported this week that Illinois standards are being changed in a way that will institutionalize racism in our education system. How is the education bureaucracy doing this? The state is changing the standards students have to meet by “RACE”. Yes, each race will have a separate standard to meet. Here […]
Public School Disaster
May 8, 2014 by 1 Comment
The Cato Institute has just published a nationwide study called “State Education Trends, Academic Performance and Spending over the last 40 years.” It leaves no doubt that the cost of public education has steadily increased (allowing for inflation) and the achievement has remained constant at the same low level. We taxpayers as parents are getting […]
Madigan Doesn’t Like Term Limits for Himself
May 7, 2014 by 1 Comment
Last week, The Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits filed 591,092 petition signatures with the Secretary of State and the Illinois State Board of Elections asking a constitutional amendment be put on the November ballot to limit state lawmakers to 8 years in office, lower the number of State Senators to 41 and raise […]
Big Government, Little People or Little Government, Big People
April 15, 2014 by 1 Comment
With Tax Day upon us, it is time to reflect on which paradigm our country was founded on. Was it Big Government, Little People or Little Government, Big People? Illinois use to be a great state. It was said that even during the depression, if you couldn’t find a job here, you couldn’t find a […]
No Endorsements for Republican State Central Committee
April 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
As outlined in my article “The Old Order Changeth Yielding Place to New!” last year, the Republican State Central Committee is organized incorrectly making it impotent. There’s a reason for this political policy disaster that has wound up in political impotency. The IRCC is organized for failure in its basic structure. This failure has been […]
Editorial: Bad Management is Killing Illinois
Illinois is being destroyed because of bad management; bad management in cities and villages; bad management in school districts and especially bad management from Springfield. Michael Madigan is the longest serving Speaker of House in the entire country nearing 30 years. During that time he has led this once great state to being the most […]