It’s enough to make you see red!
Taxes are something we all must pay. We don’t have to be happy about paying them – but we must. And now there’s something that could make you not only unhappy about paying them, but absolutely furious when you write your checks.

Our taxes are vital. They pay for the public school teachers who educate our children. They pay for the police who risk their lives to protect us. They pay for the brave firemen who enter burning buildings to …

After several months of driving past boarded up store fronts and half-empty strip malls, I was finding the drive becoming more and more depressing by the week. Each time I took the drive there appeared to be more vacated shops. I started at the Lakefront in Evanston and then drove west, along Dempster Street through Skokie and Morton Grove and, on both sides of the road, I saw more and more empty buildings where businesses once stood. Those businesses have simply closed up shop. There …

Is there a clear and present danger facing America? Are threats now being made over American television? The answers are “maybe” and “yes”.

The debate over building the proposed Cordoba mosque near ground zero in New York City is now past getting out of hand. Protests have turned into threats – and now the threats have multiplied. Whether you are for or opposed to building a mosque so near the site where thousands were killed by Islamic terrorists on September 11,2001, it does no good to make threats of …

Here are some things to ponder in Chicago. What has happened to a city that gives gangbangers publicity? What kind of a move is it for the Superintendent of Police to call for a summit meeting with leaders of these punks?

The rule used to be that, when reporting on gang violence, reporters wouldn’t mention the name of the gangs involved. Gangs like to read about themselves and, to make it into the newspapers or onto radio and television would be great for them. They’d use it …

There’s a big question on the minds of many these days. The question: Is there one rule of law for citizens and another for elected officials? Consider what the average taxpaying adult has been watching playing out. Senators getting sweetheart deals on their mortgages from a company they voted to give business. A Treasury Secretary failing to pay his income tax for more than two years. Congress members voting on issues to give their private concerns bailout money, sending out private fundraising letters on Congressional …

There is no bond of friendship stronger than that which exists among those who serve. For those who serve together in war, it is a bond that lasts a lifetime and beyond. Consider what is happening now among those serving in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

A Band of Brothers is remembering one of its own, and, although they’re based in Wisconsin they plan on honoring their fallen friend in Chicago, in a very special place for a hero, Soldier Field. The planners served in Iraq and Kuwait. …

What is going on in government? Here in Illinois we have the worst deficits in the nation – yet Governor Pat Quinn has given his staff big salary boosts.

Teachers and employees are being laid off, yet no one has touched the countless Superintendents, Deputy Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Assistant Principles, and multiple (and unnecessary) School Districts that overlap in townships and suburbs. It is that overlapping bureaucracy that is highly overpaid and mostly unnecessary. It is the teaching force that is necessary in Illinois.
And teachers would not have to be …

It’s time for some remedial classes for Congress and the Administration. Someone has to teach them how to read. Someone has to tell them that they need to read bills before they sign them into law, and read laws before they criticize or make plans to bring suit against them.

Senator Christopher Dodd told the nation that he didn’t know he had favored status and was given a mortgage far below the going rate. He said he hadn’t read a letter from the mortgage company telling him of …

The public-sector Unions are showing their muscle in Springfield and using that old canard that “the children will suffer” unless the General Assembly moves to give the employees a pay raise. That’s a lot of rot.

Illinois is now second only to California in its billions of dollars of debt. But the only thing we hear from Governor Quinn and General Assembly leaders is a push to raise taxes once again. Whoa there! There is another way and it won’t cause even more manufacturers, businesses, and residents …

Taxes are going up, interest rates are going up and government regulations are increasing. There is nowhere one sees is more than when trying to remortgage your home or buy a new one.
At a recent party I was talking with a friend who owns a very successful business. He was lamenting the fact that, although he has banked with Harris Bank for forty years, he recently had to jump through hoops to remortgage his home and it took an extended amount of …