Chicago Daily Observer

Larry Johnson, a rock-ribbed Hillary Clinton supporter, has pulled together some of the finest and most reasoned critics of Obama’s radical kitchen cabinet: Ayers/Rezko/Wright/Dohrn & etc.

Domestic Terrorist Billy Ayers ‘walked out of jail’ and into Academic circles by dint of his Daddy’s ComEd power circle that embraced University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Woods Fund, Sidley and Austin Law Firm, and any number of left-sensitive political animals. Ayers’ insulated life allowed him to leap from ‘Underground’ to Hyde Park influence without so much as time out for his decades of crimes against America.

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...

Old Media has mostly ignored Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s poor showing among non-African-American voters, even though it was obvious way back in the early-March Ohio and Texas primaries. To the degree that there has been coverage of the situation at all, it has been presented as if there is something wrong with the voters, not Obama himself or his “message.” Clay Waters at NewsBusters noted the most egregious example of this thought process (“Hillary Winning Too Many White Votes”) when he reviewed recent coverage in the New York Times on Wednesday.