Midwest Food Bank: Highly Paid Officers

By: Diane Benjamin This story was inspired by the following article: https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-hunger-industrial-complex-part-ii-the-six-figure-charity-racket/ You REALLY need to read that story before continuing. One excerpt: When you compare what food-bank executives earn to the work these organizations actually do, the picture that emerges isn’t one of modest, volunteer-driven charity. It’s a professional system of administration and logistics […]

Springfield Bozos

By: Diane Benjamin A flurry of bills are being filed in Springfield. If you aren’t on the Illinois Family Institute email list, please get on it. They have a list of anti-family bills on their website that need witness slips: https://illinoisfamily.org/ There is another stupid bill that needs massive opposition: A new bill has been […]

Want Your Daughters Drafted?

By: Diane Benjamin If you are in the 16th Congressional District, 2 of the 4 candidates want your daughters drafted. One didn’t respond to the Illinois Family Institute survey. Only one candidate opposes drafting females. If you run into Darrin Lahood, ask him about his recent trip to Lebanon. His staff told me it was […]

Having trouble picking a Dem candidate?

By:  Diane Benjamin This handy chart from Illinois Family Institute can help. If you want illegal immigrants to get free healthcare at your expense, there are many to choose from. If you want to live in the stone age under the Green New Deal, lots of choices there too.  The only two opposed aren’t in […]

School news you might have missed

By:  Diane Benjamin First, remember how Darin Lahood told us he was a conservative?  Didn’t he say he would stop Common Core? He voted YES on the massive Education funding bill this week without reading it.  Nobody in Congress had time to read it.  The same games played by John Boehner continue under Paul Ryan. […]