January 2009
29 posts
Free market conservatives need to know about "Card...
The number one legislative priority for action by President Obama comes from the unions who helped get him elected: Card Check. Actually called the Emplyee Free Choice Act (no kidding), the legislation would enact a system in which 60 per cent of employees would sign a card to a authorize a local union, handing the card directly to union organizers. The current voting method requires a...
Celebrating Michael Steele
Once again Americans can rejoice - this time in the election of Michael Steele (former Lt. Governor of Maryland) to head up the national GOP. He is a pretty traditional conservative, for limited taxation and less regulation of business, and a pro-life Catholic. Indeed he may well represent the mainstream African American viewpoint on social issues better even than the messiah in Washington - plus...
The next (Democrat) Governor of Illinois has been...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (daughter of IL State Senate Democrat Leader Mike Madigan) is celebrating tonight. With no real opponent in the next gubernatorial election, she undoubtedly will be elected, and she won’t even need to shake down any lobbyists for campaign donations. Didn’t it just work out well for her that former Governor Rod Blagojevich, whatever his...
Someone Illinoisans can believe in . . .
Yes, our beloved Abe Lincoln’s actual 200th birthday is coming up on February 12th. With little enough to celebrate in the Land of Lincoln, join friends and neighbors on Sunday, February 8th at the New Trier Republican Organization headquarters to remember the man who came from nothing (but hard work) and inspired a nation to change, using both his words and the actions that followed.
The...
Abe's 2nd Inaugural Address: more than memorable
Fellow countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great...
Slum Dog Millionaire, the movie that may well sweep the Oscars this year, raises some disturbing moral questions about the East Indian democracy that is our friend and ally. Raised from obscurity by the same British colonial power as America, we have to ask what went wrong in India. If you haven’t seen the movie, or even if you have and want to learn much more about the ruthless suffering of...
Our tip-of-the-iceberg governor goes to town.
While the bruhaha over Blag goes from amusing to appalling in the national media, there is much more to the Illinois story than the national media may want to tackle. There can be no doubt that our governor has found his niche chatting with the ladies on The View - maybe they even will offer him the job he will be needing. The impeachment process is as fair as can be expected in the Illinois...
Change we can believe . . . IL Kombine goes to...
As the $trillion+ “stimulus” package works its way through the hallowed halls in DC, I can’t help thanking all those suburban RINOs who voted for Obama - after all we just needed change from eight years of the way-too-Christian George Bush. They are still muttering the change mantra, but it is getting fainter and fainter as it becomes a little clearer (to the soft-thinking non...
What caused the US Airways Hudson River ditch?
"Not in MY back yard."
Last night ConservativeBrand enjoyed an off-the-record evening listening to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, one public official (from Illinois) who has not a drop of moral relativisim in his blood. The subjects were counter-terrorism and gang violence; Fitzgerald is looking to see citizens demonstrating a little more non-partisan depth of understanding of the first and a little more individual...
George Bush: The Media's "New" Whipping Boy →
Julie Grisolano of Salvo Magazine doubts the media will find fault in our new Commander in Chief; it seems likely that George Bush as whipping boy will do for another few years at least
The Messiah becomes the Preacher
Today’s Inaugural Address was eloquent, if empty of a lasting message. It was a wonderful thing to empathize with the throngs of African American citizens and officials who gloried in the vindication of their race. President Obama could expend a portion of his amazing support by throwing his capital behind one major change that his people could believe in. The one thing holding back public...
InaugurationGate: John Roberts's innocent mistake,...
The swearing in led both men to stumble over their words. Were these mistakes innocent or part of a devious plan? You decide!
One of the smart kids? And/or the next senator...
“The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United...”
– Peter Hitchens, in the London Daily Mail
Chicago Tribune becomes the . . . Sun Times,...
Well in light of the Chicago Tribune’s announcement that it now will produce a tabloid-style section (possibly to draw in the many readers of the other almost-defunct Chicago dailies), we decided to open up our free copy of the Trib - that would be the one that is flung our way since we cancelled our subscription a couple of months ago. What popped up this morning but a brand new section...
Check it out for yourself - Clinton's support... →