The producers of “FrackNation” tell the story of ordinary Americans in Dimock, Penn., who are seeing America’s new Gold Rush that has the potential to make America energy independent by 2020. The film is throwing sand in the gears of Hollywood elites, nonprofits and media who are using fear and intimidation to rig the public […]
Allen West It’s inauguration day for the second term of President Barack Hussein Obama. The ironic thing is that when the celebration is over, and the hangovers subside, President Obama and his acolytes will have to look in the mirror and realize they have inherited their own self-created economic mess. These facts show what they have […]
Will the U.S. soon face a critical situation in which the federal government– primarily the Department of Homeland Security – possesses an ammunition surplus while local and state authorities face ammunition shortages and backlogs in purchasing more rounds? Current trends could find the federal government with a strong ammunition advantage over local police and sheriff […]
Questionable views of history abound on the History Channel, so don’t plan on getting accurate history! Sunday night – 2 hour special on Ronald Reagan stated: “His reelection was bolstered by an improving economy made possible by his tax increases”. After peeling myself off a wall, I researched: And Reagan’s 1982 tax increase followed an even more […]
I heard Walmart is cutting employee hours. Seasonal employees they had planned to keep are now laid off. Employees report business way down. Is the economy so good nobody shops at Walmart anymore? Are all the other stores hiring (Jewel, Kroger, Cub, Meijer, etc) to take care of all the people with pockets full of […]
FREEDOM is the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. CHOICE is absolute right our CREATOR has bestowed upon HIS creation…right from wrong…good from evil and HIS Covenant 10 Commandments to honor/obey, in return…protect US from those who would do US harm. Our Constitution was derived from The 10 Commandments… We The People who reside in these […]
Contact: Matthew Faraci (202) 997-1636 | Email FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2013 Contact: David Pasch (202) 230-7947 | Email As Inauguration Approaches, Young Adults Ask President Obama to Remember the Next Generation Millennials looking to Washington for results after more than four years of economic devastation Washington, DC – (1/18/13) – President Barack Obama will soon take the oath […]
When the left begins to lose an argument, they change the words used. Examples: Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Compensation are “deferred pay”. They regret the Affordable Care Act wasn’t called “The American Plan”. “Undertaxing” and “Revenue Neglect” are used to discuss tax increases. Government spending is now an “Investment”. The list is endless. Now […]
by Ben VanMetre, Illinois Policy Institute Two years ago, families in Illinois started forking over an additional $1,500 as the result of a 67% personal income tax hike — pushing their state tax bill to $3,750. Lawmakers said the tax hike was necessary to prevent cuts to core government services. They promised the new revenue would be used […]
Michael Snyder, Contributor Activist Post Share this list of shocking questions with everyone you know that needs to wake up. Sometimes asking good questions is the best way to get someone that you care about to understand something. When I attended law school, I became very familiar with something called “the Socratic method”. It is a […]
by Diane Benjamin It’s very easy to know what President Obama is going to do next. A few weeks before he speaks, all the left wing groups send out the same message. This week it’s immigration reform, leaving out the word “illegal” of course. No talk of securing the borders, just amnesty because “we can’t […]
CHICAGO, December 24, 2012 — With barely a whimper from the media, John Kerry is President Obama’s official nominee for Secretary of State. Mr. Kerry is the senior Senator from Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was the 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Kerry has also been a long-time crusader in the […]
Photo: US government photo Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – Climatism: A Mad, Mad, Mad World by Steve Goreham CHICAGO, January 15, 2013— Last Friday, the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) issued a draft report titled “Climate Change and the American People.” The report was produced by the 60-person NCADAC and supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
The President’s kids attend Sidwell Friends school in DC. Of course they have Secret Service Protection. The problem is Sidwell Friends ALWAYS has armed guards, not just because the President’s kids attend. Might have something to do with Sidwell is where Congress sends their kids. David Gregory of NBC sends his too. But their children […]
Excepts from a blog – entire text below: Nothing angers those who seek power more than a legal framework which they are not allowed to touch, or shift, or “tweak” to suit their private ambitions. Constitutional protections are not meant to be subject to the “buts” and “what ifs” common in the lesser legal world. […]
We’ve previously covered the dismal investment returns earned by the public pension systems for Illinois teachers, lawmakers and judges. It’s time to add one more. Although the pension fund for state employees predicted it would earn $850 million in fiscal year 2012, it actually earned less than $6 million. The fund posted an investment return of just 0.05%, far […]
Stanford University report took race, poverty level, English language learner and special education status into account By JARRETT SKORUP | Jan. 15, 2013 A new study taking race, poverty and other areas into account when measuring performance shows that students in Michigan public charter schools do better academically than their conventional public school. The students who took advantage of school choice […]
Subject: Fw: NEA Education Insider: No More Gun Violence! Here is my response to the NEA. I am sooooo pissed off. Perhaps the NEA should be asking its members to teach history and the reason that our Constitution provides us the right to bear arms. The NRA is not some lobby group. It is an organization that […]
Scott Lauglin just announced we have laws about printing money. Government is restricted by law, according to Laughlin. I guess he didn’t hear we aren’t on the GOLD standard anymore. We haven’t been since NIXON! The Federal Reserve is printing over $40,000,000,000 a MONTH to keep the Feds in dough. Worse yet, Colleen Reynolds didn’t […]
Why Carry a Gun? My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.’ I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from […]
by JIM LAKELY on JANUARY 11, 2013 What’s in worse shape? The state of the Earth’s climate? Or the state of the New York Times? Global temperatures are not rising all that quickly, so the Earth is doing fine. Meanwhile, the Old Gray Lady is shutting down it’s Environment Desk. From Inside Climate News [emphasis mine]: The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next […]
Laura Hollis, Nov 08, 2012 Laura Hollis is: Current: Associate Professional Specialist and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. Past: Director at Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Associate Director and Clinical Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Education: University of Notre Dame Law School, University of Notre Dame. Summary: She has 20+ years’ […]
MoveOn.org sends multiple lie filled emails a week – the low information voters fall for them as evidenced by the last election. They actually believe they have a good chance of banning guns now. There is never a discussion of mental illness, prosecuting parents who allow their mentally ill children access to guns, tying background checks to mental […]
Taylor Smith – January 9, 2013 Heartland Institute With the Illinois legislature back in session, representatives of the oil and gas industry and environmental activists are directing their attention to Senate Bill 3280, an amendment to the Oil and Gas Act currently pending in the House Rules Committee. The legislation would impose regulations on the process […]
You can’t drive in the new Uptown Normal, you have to park in a garage and walk. Almost every new building is retail on the first floor and apartments above. The Town of Normal is spending over 20,000 for a feasibility study of a grocery store in Uptown. The train station has no place to drop off […]
The below FBI chart shows the murder rate in the US has been steadily dropping. The second chart shows the number of FBI background checks has risen dramatically. The is no actual data for the number of guns sold, but the NICS check is required for buying a gun. The Illinois gun murder rate is going in […]
by: Diane Benjamin It’s easy, but I’ve never heard anybody say it! Since Congress doesn’t have a current budget, it has operated under the 2009 budget. The 2009 budget was the largest in history! Obviously the Democrats have no intention of cutting spending. So, instead of passing the House budgets, or even discussing them, they pass Continuing Resolutions […]
By: Steve Maley (Diary) | January 8th, 2013 at 04:00 PM | I wasted $7.75 on Hollywood’s latest anti-fracking agitprop “Promised Land” (1) so you won’t have to. You can read movie reviews elsewhere. From what I’ve seen, they’ve been rather lukewarm. And in its first weekend of nationwide distribution, audience response was tepid at best. In the words of lead actor/screenwriter […]
Response by Carl Woodward to a Springfield newspaper story: (Carl has previously written about Bloomington and Normal debt http://blnnews.com/2012/12/14/bloomington-normal-illinois-governmental-theft/) I read your article. I know you wrote what was supplied to you, but you need to know the following so the readers are not mislead, not your fault. The “real” city budget is only balanced […]
It’s almost impossible to know what’s real in Washington DC. Most sources say the Defense Department would be cut $1 Trillion over 10 years under sequestration. That’s $100 billion a year. Since Congress is changed every 2 years, planning anything for 10 years is ridiculous, but politicians love to state numbers in those terms anyway. The […]
That’s what kept running through my mind this past week as I listened to politicians, union leaders and government employees talk about the state’s pension woes. None of the plans Illinois lawmakers are considering will go anywhere near solving the state’s long-term pension crisis. And yet even the most modest proposals have government workers angry. […]
Thanks to Yes votes from both Bill Brady and Dan Brady, illegal (ILLEGAL) aliens will now be able to get Driver’s Licenses in Illinois. Supposedly the roads will be safer. How are they going to verify identity? Legal citizens have to bring a birth certificate when they get a drivers license. It didn’t work in […]
So, Jennifer is back on the ballot after a ruling by Judge Paul Lawrence who just happens to be the same judge that got McLean County on a list of judicial hellholes. http://www.judicialhellholes.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Judicial-Hellholes-2011.pdf See page 25. Um. . . .
by: Diane Benjamin The recent horror at Sandy Hook Elementary is bringing back talk of banning guns. People who say a gun is the best defense against a gun aren’t well received by people wanting to ban them. If you have never shot a gun, I understand the apprehension. If you have been trained in gun […]
by Diane Benjamin I previously reported on the purchase of a house at 900 South Linden: http://blnnews.com/2012/10/15/big-spending-environmentalists-running-normal/ According to the Town Council Action Report dated 11/1/2007, this property was purchased to enlarge Underwood Park and provide access to Constitution Trail. The purpose has now been changed. Instead of tearing the house down, Normal has plans […]
The left is outraged that 166 men are deprived of their freedom at Gitmo. They want it closed now: Act to Close the Internment Camp at Guantánamo on its Grim 11th Anniversary Dear CCR Supporter, January 11, 2013 marks the grim eleventh anniversary of the opening of the internment camp at Guantánamo Bay, where 166 men […]
