By John Biver

I shouldn't have to explain what I mean by failure. Barack Obama is president, Nancy Pelosi is U.S. House Speaker, and Al Franken is now the 60th Democrat in the now filibuster-proof United States Senate.

It seems to me, getting an education degree at an American university today not only wrecks the soul of learning, it removes a person's courage to revolt against a failed public school system.

Commentator Mark Steyn was recently asked, "why are politicians so weird?" That's the question that has plagued me for a long time.

There's a lot of odd people in politics - in fact, the arena seems to be a magnet for them. To counter that - we need a renaissance.

Now that Republicans are announcing exploratory campaigns to take on Cross in the Primary, some of his enablers have their undies in a bunch.

When your party officials spend all of their time wondering whether they should follow the law or not, you've got a serious problem.

Mark Kirk won't be running for any statewide office - because if he does, he's guaranteed to lose.