While emailing with friends this morning, I realized that at this time last year, when 2009 was still young and at least half of the country still believed in ‘hope and change’, we were working hard campaigning in Chicago’s 5th Congressional District. Chicago was holding a special election to fill the House seat left empty by [...]

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Tags: Campaigning, Chicago politics, Political parties

Not to belittle the seriousness of this situation. A Senior Senator on the floor of the US Senate, clearly slurring his words, ranting and under the influence of … well, see for yourself and make the call.
Where is the media on this one? The anger? If Baucus had an ‘R’ after his name, this [...]

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Tags: Sen. Max Baucus

This article from the WSJ was forwarded to me. I am as big a fan of Whole Foods as I am of conservative thinking, and I jokingly refer to myself to as a granola conservative. I defend my love of organic, all-natural foods to fellow conservatives by explaining that this evidences just how ultra-conservative I [...]

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Tags: Future of the GOP, young conservatives

In a short, but powerful piece, “Watching Social Security Eat the Young Alive”, a father writes about his concern for his son’s future and the mess that has been made of Social Security.
In the article, Bill Frezza tells us of a letter his 26 year old son receives from the Social Security Administration.
“The two-page pamphlet entitled [...]

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Tags: government entitlements, Social Security

Much has already been said about President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan (see text here) yesterday night. What struck me about the speech is Obama’s inability to take a stand on the tough issues. When the going gets tough, he not only wavers — he tries to play both sides of the field.
In both his speech [...]

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Tags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan surge, Afghanistan withdrawal

CBS reporter Declan McCullagh writes in an article published yesterday of concerning behavior by California’s District Attorney, Timothy Morrison. In February of 2009, Morrison subpoenaed the personal information of readers of a news aggregation site, Indymedia. Not only did they request identifying information but also the dates and times the site was visited, the home [...]

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Tags: free speech, privacy issues

In an op-ed piece in yesterday’s WSJ, Zachary Karabell warns of just that. This timely article looks back to the relationship between Britain and America, when Britain was the superpower, and America was the underdog. After two world wars, Britain found itself cash-strapped. America strategically lent it the money it needed, under its terms, which [...]

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Tags: US debt, US-China relations

To my readers, I hope you’ll bear with me as I gear back up after a week of vacation. Upon returning home last week, I woke up Thursday morning to the news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Still in vacation mode, dragging my feet, I stared at my Twitter stream [...]

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Tags: Iran Neda, Iran protests, Nobel peace prize

I’ve been in New York taking a little time out for the last few days, so things have been pretty quiet around here. But, I wanted to take time to let everyone know about Patients First, a site I was made aware of by Katie Favazza, my fabulous former editor at AIP who is now [...]

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Tags: health care debate, Role of Government

This week, Chicago is buzzing with news of the forthcoming IOC decision on its Olympic bid. The national media is focused on the President’s trip to Copenhagen and his desire to shine the spotlight on his hometown. What the media is missing is the adverse reaction with which this endeavor has been met by Chicagoans [...]

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Tags: Chicago corruption, Chicago Olympic bid, Chicago violence