Despite the kerfluffle instigated by 10th District candidate Dick Green, splitting hairs between his and Robert Dold’s stand on abortion, the Illinois Right to Life today announced that Dold is the recommended candidate in the primary. Dold’s moderate stand against partial birth abortion, against Federal funding of abortions and for parental notification of abortion is mainstream for the 10th district - and, by the way, far to the (sensible) right of Rep. “any-abortion/any-time” Mark Kirk.
Open memo to Wilmette President Chris Canning
Time to put your money where your mouth is in the 10th District primary, Chris. With Beth Coulson touting your endorsement anywhere and everywhere (including on her campaign literature), it is getting harder to believe the story that she tricked the endorsement out of you. In the first place, a politician who wants a future in the community (or beyond) should not be endorsing any candidate, much less the one with little money, name recognition only as far as her state rep district extends - and that only as the closest thing to a liberal Democrat on the North Shore. Coulson’s real mentors are Jeff Schoenberg, who has been part of her political team since day one, and our beloved former Governor Blago, who helped her get elected in 2004. Remember, Chris, Coulson is the so-called Republican whose voting record matches that of Julie Hamos (that would be the Democrat candidate-in-waiting for the 10th) 87% of the time - and the candidate who mailed out a campaign flyer in 2004 showing her smiling in such a friendly way with Barry Obama.
David Schwimmer is the director of Trust, a dark drama about an ad man whose Wilmette daughter has been victimized by a sexual predator on the Internet. Stars include Clive Owen and Catherine Keener.
A recipe for Tea Party tidbits - yum!
Scottish Shortbread
1 cup butter (2 sticks) cold from the refrigerator
½ cup sugar
2 cups flour
½ cup corn starch
(alternative: 1¾ cup flour plus 1 cup rice flour)
½ tsp. salt
Cut very cold butter into 12 pieces and place in food processor. Add sugar, flour, corn starch and salt. Process with steel blade into coarse meal. Immediately press into flat shortbread or large brownie pan (greased and floured). Dough should be about ½ inch thick. Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Place in pre-heated 450˚ oven for 5 minutes. Lower temperature to 350˚ and cook for up to 30 minutes more, or until shortbreads are pale golden in color. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with sugar and slice (in pan) to desired shapes. Remove from pan when totally cooled.
Chicagoan Eric Odom has an interesting report on Fox News this morning: the Tea Party is out-polling Republicans in a generic ballot. The U.S. Constitution may just be the winner in the end!
Sad end to an inebriated evening for a Winnetka 20-year-old when her car crashed into this Kenilworth home last Friday evening. Pioneer Press photo.
This chartreuse cut velvet ensembe (Calvin Klein) worn by Michelle Obama to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony today might just be too much of a fashion statement for the American people. Check out all her frocks at http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/04/michelle_obama_slideshow.html#photo=1. Question: is Michelle’s clothing allowance way too high?
Two pathetic losers (as in “L” tatooed on the forehead) have a go at Dick Cheney (who could care less). Just wondering what they are saying in private about Sarah Palin.
Memorial service for Rose Friedman set for this Saturday
Announced by the University of Chicago:
A memorial will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, for University alumna Rose Friedman, an economist who co–authored a number of important books with her late husband Milton Friedman. Rose Friedman, Ph.B., died Tuesday, Aug. 18, at her home in Davis, Calif.
The memorial, which will conclude with a lunch, will take place in Room 219 in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ Charles M. Harper Center, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Guests and friends scheduled to speak at the event include President Robert Zimmer, Gary Becker, University Professor in Economics, Sociology and Chicago Booth, and Stephen Stigler, Chair of Statistics and the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor in Statistics and the College. For a full list of speakers, visit: http://mfi.uchicago.edu/email/invite/2009/112109.html. Read more at http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1807.
The New Yortk Times said of her death, “Rose Friedman, a free-market economist whose extraordinary collaboration with her husband, Milton, proved essential to his Nobel-prize-winning career, died Tuesday at her home in Davis, Calif. Her birth records have been lost, but her family said she was probably 98.”
Free to Choose Media
“The cause was heart failure, according to a statement approved by the family and issued by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, founded by Milton and Rose Friedman in 1996 to promote school vouchers and other school-choice policies.” More at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/business/19friedman.html?_r=1.
Ever wonder what ACORN has to do with the Chicago Way?
The airways were awash last Monday with emails concerning the blockbuster revelations that were expected on the Glenn Beck show regarding Democrat Rep. Jan Schakawsky’s husband’s campaign tactics. Kudos to 9th District Republican candidate Joel Pollak, who provided the research to make the scandal real: if you missed the Beck show on Tuesday, it all has to do with how an avowed socialist and convicted felon (Schakowsky husband Bob Creamer) used campaign financing to get candidates elected. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.
According to Andrew Breitbart’s blog, Big Government.com, “During the time that federal investigators were compiling the evidence of financial crimes that would send Creamer to prison, he was involved in other illegal activities that violated campaign finance laws as determined by the Federal Election Commission. These activities included avoiding limits on donations by individuals and unions and creating a funding mechanism that used smoke and mirrors to avoid detection.” Read all about it at http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/09/bob-creamer-architect-of-obamacare-and-his-pattern-of-corruption/.
About Me
Bringing conservative values back to Illinois . . . one Republicrat at a time.Conversation and connections on the world according to Eva Sorock from a (mostly) local perspective - Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Acquired my conservative credentials at Mount Holyoke College, as an intern for then-Rep. Don Rumsfeld, and with an MBA from the University of Chicago. 2 terms on the Wilmette Board of Education. Life influences: husband, Herb from Chicago (heard regularly on Dennis Miller radio) and three twenty-something children: one conservative MBA, one conservative 3-L and one libertarian 3-L.
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