Chicago Daily Observer

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! – Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany on June 12, 1987. [Full speech text here.]

I realize it’s become cliché for Republicans to talk about how much they miss Ronald Reagan. But nowhere is some of the Gipper’s spine needed more than in the Illinois GOP right now.

Reagan stood up to an Evil Empire and won the Cold War – without firing a shot. Once they faced a determined leader like Reagan, the communists realized they could never prevail.

The stakes are considerably lower in Illinois these days. That should argue for accomplishing more because the tasks at hand are much easier for Illinois Republicans compared to ... Read More...

An open letter to Tom Roeser regarding “Individual K”

By Doug Ibendahl

Reprinted from the Family Taxpayers Network

[Tom Roeser, no relation to FTN’s own Jack Roeser, has a piece on his new blog defending his friend Bob Kjellander and mocking reform-minded Republicans. In this open letter, Doug Ibendahl sets the record straight on several key facts.]

Tom,

By my count you got about one thing right in your latest diatribe in defense of your friend Individual K. It’s the last line, “There: how’s that for alienating everybody and pleasing none?”

Well, actually, that’s not right either. Obviously your friend, Big Bob, will appreciate the way you destroy your credibility in order to salvage his.

If you want to brag about your long history as a conservative leader in a state where the conservative “movement” is now so weak it can’t even stop a Democrat (Topinka) from getting the ... Read More...