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In Part 1 posted yesterday, “A Tea Party conservative questions the GOP presidential candidate process,” expressed was my perception that the conservatism movement within the Republican Party (also espoused by many Tea Party members) was being steamrolled over by the Republican Establishment. As was pointed out in a comment made by John F. DiLeo to my article when posted at Illinois Review, who did agree with most of what I wrote in Part 1, DiLeo wrote that “This cannot be a race between the…See More

Obama's citizenship viability finally receives a Georgia Court hearing President Obama has lots of explaining to do.  On January 26 a Georgia court case hearing was held which revolved around the Natural Born clause of the Constitution and whether or not Obama qualifies under it to serve. More so, if found ineligible, Obama's name would not appear on the 2012 ballot in Georgia.  Obama's attorney, Jablonski, was a no show at the court hearing as was Obama, who had been subpoenaed to…See More

 Two articles were published in tandem, but a day apart, detailing the out-of-control and severe financial status of Illinois. I suspect that the Chicago Tribune's article came first in the lineup on Thursday, January 19, Topinka:  Illinois' Unpaid Bill Crisis Just Keeps Getting Worse, and that it served as the spring board for the following day's opinion piece on January 20 in The Wall Street Journal, The Greece Next Door, which contrasts Illinois's credit rating downgrade to positive…See More

 The following article in the Chicago Tribune by Julie Wernau in the Business Section on Wednesday, January 18, ComEd to receive more solar power, captured my attention: "Beginning in July, Commonwealth Edison Co. customers will receive more power from the sun, thanks to a solar project under way in LaSalle County. The 23-megawatt project by Chicago-based Invenergy LLC, using technology from General Electric Co's renewable arm, will be the largest solar project in the Midwest"…See More

A Tribune article by reporter Monique Garcia on Sunday, January 15, had this unseemly title:  A year after income tax hike, GOP slams Democrats.  And why wasn't the Republican action merited?  The law to raise the personal tax hike from 3% to 5% and the corporate tax from 4.8% to 7% was passed in a Lame Duck session of Illinois's 96th General Assembly on January 12, 2011 without a single Republican vote.  But it did receive the support of almost every legislator who retired a few hours later or…See More

Featured on January 12 in the Pioneer Press:  Lake Forester Saluting American Legion McKinlock Post 264 for its service to Lake Forest youth and veterans and all American Legion Posts for their dedicated and unselfish good works to their communities     by Nancy J. Thorner, Citizen Reporter.My Introduction to Lake Forest's McKinlock Post 264 of the American Legion When I was approached to write an article about Lake Forest's McKinlock American Legion Post 264, there was no hesitation on my…See More

Two important events were missed during the week of January 2nd because of the frenzy over the reporting about the the Republican presidential candidates and Obama's unconstitutional recess appointments.  Below is Part one.   Part two will be posted tomorrow and will zero in on Obamacare waivers.  Part one:  Media disregards DOJ filing of health care legal brief with Supremes (with frenzy over state election contests)With all the hub bub and media frenzy in the week of January 2nd over the…See More