Chicago

Illinois is “on the verge of a financial disaster” as payments on the state’s debt have skyrocketed, said Treasurer Dan Rutherford.  He is talking about the extreme deficit the State of Illinois is currently running, surpassing California and Greece in debt per person.  Every household in Illinois is responsible for the repayment of $42,000 to [...]

John Swinton, the chief editorial writer for the Times during the American Civil War had an enlightening view of the press and a seemingly prophetic theory of its path.  He made this comment at a press banquet in which he was being honored after a toast was made to the independent press: There is no such thing, [...]

The occupy movement is endorsing a vision of universal equality, of the dissolution of national borders, and of democratic self-governing communities, and now are gathering at the  heart of one of  America’s greatest capitalist metropolis’ to promote revolutionary anarchism and communism to achieve social justice.  The protests in  Chicago have been relatively peaceful thus far, and not nearly [...]

Since its creation in 2001 Wikipedia has become one of the largest and most trusted reference websites, attracting 400 million unique visitors every month. As more and more people look toward the internet to learn and to teach, it is imperative that the internet stays “free” and the best way to accomplish that is to keep [...]

Two more Illinois coal-fired power plants are closing to the delight of Greenpeace and Sierra Club activists, but what does this mean for Chicagoans?  Rahn Emanuel pressured Chicago’s Fisk and Crawford plants to close earlier than previously scheduled.  These two power plants represent over 200 years of Chicago history and coal historically provides the city and the state [...]

May Day is celebrated by left-wing and labor movements as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.  The Haymarket incident began as a labor demonstration and general strike on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square (Randolph Street and Desplaines Street) in Chicago and culminated in a crowd of an estimated 3,000 people throwing a [...]

Al Armendariz, a top EPA administrator, described his agencies philosophy of enforcing draconian regulations on oil companies as “crucifying” them.  These comments are just another example of the current administrations war on fossil fuels.  The current battle field seems to be on the oil and gas industry, illustrated by record gasoline prices and the blocking of the Keystone pipeline [...]

A typical weekend comes to an end for Chicago with an all too familiar check of the local crime blotter.  Six dead and fifteen wounded in weekend shootings.  It’s a good thing that Mayor Rahm Emanuel likes to use his buddy Barack Obama’s tactics: blaming the other guy and using fuzzy numbers.  Through the first quarter this year, 120 [...]

ccording to the White House, no household making more than $1 million each year should pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than a middle class family pays. They claim that about 55,000 millionaires pay a lower effective tax rate than millions of middle-income Americans.  This is the Buffett Rule—a simple principle of [...]

Progressivism is a general term for a political ideology advocating social, political, and economic reform or changes and opposition to conservative ideologies.  Progressive policy was embraced in the administrations of American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson.  Our current President, Barack Obama, is a self-proclaimed progressive who said , “I am someone who is no [...]