By: Diane Benjamin I realized something this morning. I’m a 2nd generation American! There was only one generation of my family born in America before me. All of my grandparents immigrated here as children. Their families FLED to this country for refuge from European wars. I never knew my dad’s parents (long story), but I […]
By: Diane Benjamin Maybe a bunch of Bloomington-Normal residents went to Downs for fireworks. Maybe the people of Downs just turned despicable in one year. I don’t know where the people were from, but I won’t be going back to Downs. If used to be great. Patriotic, good fireworks, fun family atmosphere. Not this year. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Don Rients is a really nice conservative guy. He is smart and the kind of guy who should be in government. In the 18th District he doesn’t have a chance, he has no major backers and not a lot of money. I really hope he stays in politics and runs for his County […]
By: Diane Benjamin Does government create economic activity? Tari Renner believes he needs to control what happens to downtown Bloomington. Obviously Chris Koos had the same thought when he created Uptown. Meantime, tax revenue is down in BOTH cities. Both mayors believe more government intervention is needed to force economic development and growth. Now they […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bill of Rights was added after the Constitution was ratified. Many States would not have signed the Constitution if the first 10 amendments were not promised. The Rights of individuals took presidence over the rights of government. Amendment 1 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Keep in mind: the country is $18,000,000,000,000 in debt. (Trillion – hard to get that many zeros right!) Big banks aren’t lending money to small businesses. Some banks will lend if the loans are backed by the Small Business Administration, or sometimes the SBA just loans the money themselves. Everybody knows economic […]
By: Diane Benjamin I was really expecting today’s story: Obama college plan gets high marks in Illinois to be Associated Press, but alas a lee.net (parent company) reporter wrote it. It regurgitated State officials talking points instead of reporting. It going to be GREAT!. Silly me, I expected more. Obama wants to “grant” two years […]
By: Diane Benjamin Our elected officials take an Oath of Office to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution of the United states of America. Where in the Constitution does it say the President makes Immigration laws? Where does it say the President can change laws, like ObamaCare, when ever he feels like it? Campaigning for […]
By: Diane Benjamin Obviously another lie, add it to the list. Over Thanksgiving the country hit $18 Trillion in debt – up over 70% under Obama. Just paying the interest is sucking money from the economy. Interest rates are now low, what happens when they increase? State and local governments can’t wait to grab Federal […]
FEE President Lawrence W. Reed delivered these remarks, compiled from other articles and speeches, to mark the final event at FEE’s original headquarters in Irvington, New York, on Saturday, August 23, 2014. I begin with this remark of the celebrated Roman historian Livy, written 2,000 years ago: There is an exceptionally beneficial and fruitful advantage […]
by: Diane Benjamin Mayor Transparency Renner has no clue how capitalism works. He prefers the crony kind. Businesses he wants to exist will, the others can survive on their own, or just die. Renner wants a downtown hotel. He thinks people will want to rent rooms in a downtown that has to be power-washed every […]
by: Diane Benjamin Collecting money from government has turned millions of people into government slaves. Government is NOT being compassionate, they did it on purpose. The population must look to government to solve their problems or government is unnecessary. What better way to establish job security than having peons beg at your feet just to […]
by: Diane Benjamin Nice try. Obviously the Pantagraph editorial writer is lazy, uniformed or both. Quoting parts of the Declaration of Independence without any context of the historical facts surrounding this day in 1776 betrays the true events. If you didn’t see their homage to the 4th of July, don’t bother. It was just the […]
by: Diane Benjamin Dick Durbin has been in the US Senate since 1997. If you believe politicians need to be changed often (term limits) because they lose touch with voters, this is your year to prove it. Until the November election I will be giving you reasons why it’s time for Dick to retire. In […]
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/05/david-barton-voices-support-convention-of-states-in-letter/ Wallbuilders Founder David Barton has authored a letter expressing his support for a Convention of States. Alongside his co-host on Wallbuilders Live Rick Green, Barton says he has spent years researching a Convention of States and is urging Americans to support this legislative effort to limit the scope of the federal government. He writes: Fellow […]
http://cspoa.org/cspoa-jan-2014-resolution/The following was drafted at a meeting of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) on Jan 24, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada and approved by the members present. We encourage all sheriffs, peace officers and those in public office to sign with us.Resolution Of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Pursuant to the […]
Just heard some local guys talking about the low information Congressman Adam Kinzinger and the low information columnist at the Pantagraph-Bill Flick. Flick was recounting Kinzinger’s appearance on ABC’s This week in his Sunday column. The panelists had a history “Jeopardy” like segment where the question was “Which US President gave the first State of […]
by: Diane Benjamin According to a poll by Rasmussen last week: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track 62% think the country is headed in the wrong direction Congress’s approval is at 8% I wish they would do a poll in Illinois, it might be tough though with so many heading for the border permanently. NOBODY in either party is doing […]
by: Diane Benjamin Saturday, at least 101 elected officials from at least 34 states are meeting at Mt.Vernon to discuss a Constitutional Convention called by the states under Article 5 of the Constitution. Radio host and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin sparked this debate with his book The Liberty Amendments. Two-thirds of the states can propose […]
A new report from the Texas-based Quorum Report, published by longtime Texas journalist Harvey Kronberg, says that House Speaker John Boehner plans to push amnesty legislation through the House, after the primary filing deadline for candidates. The move would prevent Tea Party from challenging GOP lawmakers who support amnesty in 2014. Scott Braddock reported […]
Expert Testifies to Congress that Obama’s ‘Ignoring Laws’ Could Lead to Overthrow of Government by Noah Rothman See the video here: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/12/03/expert-testifies-congress-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98ignoring-laws%E2%80%99-could-lead-overthrow-government During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert […]
Posted below is page 2. Page 1 can be found here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/19/obamas-disdain-for-the-constitution-means-we-risk-losing-our-republic/ 11/19/2013 @ 8:00AM PAGE 2 OF 2 The direction in which Mr. Obama is taking us would make possible the following scenario. A Republican Congress is elected and repeals Obamacare over a Democratic President’s veto. The President refuses to enforce the repeal. The Supreme […]
By Michael Snyder (The American Dream) The U.S. national debt is 36 times larger than it was just 40 years ago. That is not a misprint. That is actually the truth. We are literally destroying the future of America, but most Americans don’t really seem to care. In fact, the most hated politicians in America are the Tea Party […]
What it means to be an American. You might want Kleenex handy. . . .
Truckers and Bikers are converging on DC. They want to send a message in support of the Constitution. The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! You can support them by NOT shopping at any store […]
US government shutdown: Obama’s welfare socialism sparked this crisis, not the Constitution Source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100239347/us-government-shutdown-obamas-welfare-socialism-sparked-this-crisis-not-the-constitution/ One thing often heard in media commentary on the shutdown: what must the Chinese think when the US can’t even keep its government open? The correct answer: who cares? China’s a communist state – its government never sleeps. America’s a democracy […]
by: Diane Benjamin Check the book they are using. If it is authored by John J. Newman and John Schmalbach, you have a problem. These 2 re-wrote the 1st and 2nd Amendments to say what progressives want them to say. There is NOTHING in the Constitution about separation of Church and State. The 2nd Amendment does […]
by Diane Benjamin 1st amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. If you didn’t know, overpass […]
In 2008 Republicans joined Democrats to void the electoral college in Illinois. Kirk Dillard was front and center in the destruction. Jim Edgar thinks he knows what the Founding Fathers meant, so he supported re-writing the Constitution. Illinois electoral college votes will now go to whatever candidate wins the popular nationwide vote. A Republican could […]
by Diane Benjamin The GOP has one last chance to keep their base. Conservatives have had enough of collusion and capitulation with Democrats. We’ve had enough of John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, and John McCain. If the GOP does not vote to DEFUND ObamaCare – they own it! A majority of Americans don’t want […]
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 17 Jul 2013 at 01:37:56 PM GMT is: The estimated population of the United States is 316,266,399 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $52,936.52. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.33 billion per day since September 30, 2012! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White […]
Source: http://www.secretsofthefed.com/19-surveys-which-prove-that-a-large-chunk-of-the-population-is-made-up-of-totally-clueless-sheeple/ Are we too stupid to continue as a nation? That may seem like a harsh question, but I think that it is one that we need to ask. Even though we have more access to information today than ever before, it seems like the U.S. population just keeps becoming more ignorant. So at […]
By Doc Vega A lot has been said and written, but this promises to break the case wide open! There have been many theories and accusations about the Benghazi fiasco that not only cost Ambassador J. Christian Stevens his life, but the lives of his staff and one Navy Seal body-guard as well. This action […]
From Numbers USA: Nearly every piece of major legislation has that one amendment that can help decide the fate of the bill. The Corker-Hoeven amendment announced yesterday is the amendment that could help determine the fate of the Schumer-Rubio-Obama amnesty bill, S.744. We must do all we can to defeat this amendment! What does the Corker-Hoeven amendment […]
Kurt Schlichter | Jun 13, 2013 There is no immigration “crisis.” The only “crisis” is the one faced by an Establishment that needs millions of new voters to cling to power because millions of real Americans are waking up to the nightmare they have created. With the immigration scam well underway in Washington, the only real takeaway […]
By Sen. Rand Paul June 12, 2013 In the United States, we are supposed to have a government that is limited with its parameters established by our Constitution. This notion that the federal government can monitor everyone’s phone data is a major departure from how Americans have traditionally viewed the role of government. If this is acceptable […]
22 May 10:44:34 IE 8.0 Win7 Washington, District of Columbia, United States Department Of Homeland Security (216.81.81.81) [Label IP Address] blnnews.com/2013/05/21/if-you-protest-the-irs-homeland-security-shows-up/ (No referring link) How do you like living in a police state? When the government spies are everywhere, the Constitution is immaterial. You can stick your head back below ground now. Thanks.
Defund the United Nations, End Agenda 21 (Missouri has already voted to ban Agenda 21!) Dear Sir or Madame, We the People have presented many requests to our Congress in this past two years, some of which you have chosen to ignore. You were voted into office to act FOR the people of the United […]
by: Diane Benjamin Think back to 2009. Obama was swept into office by a troubled electorate determined to end the GOP domination. Everything was George Bush’s fault, but that’s another story. The Democrats not only had the presidency, but both houses of Congress. They were elated as they set out to create their socialist utopia. The […]
If you have a twitter account, go to https://twitter.com/whitehouse Scroll down a little so the left column is off the screen. Now look closely at the seal. Below is a picture I took so I could adjust the contrast. If you still can’t tell what it is: An Upside Down Eagle! On the official White House Twitter feed. All […]
