By Kristina Rasmussen, Illinois Policy Institute You are making a difference, but we’re not done yet. Phones at the statehouse have been ringing off the hook since we alerted you last week to mischief in Springfield regarding plans to hike…

By Cranky Housewife – The NATO Summit countdown has begun – which you know, in New York City, when they do a countdown for the really exciting events…you’ve got to admit it…they know how to do it right; they drop…

by John F. Di Leo Embracing a 2% savings at the cost of a 20% raise. The December 2011 battle in Washington, D.C. — a battle over continuing a Social Security tax-cut for another year, or even another two months…

by Teri O’Brien Today, former Wall Street big shot/democrat hack John Corzine will appear before the House Agriculture Committee, apparently to offer an apology, but no explanation, for the missing $1.2 million of client funds from his bankrupt and bizarrely…

by John F. Di Leo Sitcom fans will recall a particularly memorable episode of the iconic show Seinfeld – “The Fatigues” in Season Eight – in which two characters accidentally mix up a pair of manuscripts, not realizing their error…

When Springfield’s hunger for more revenue permits the whim of a bureaucrat to replace written law. by John F. Di Leo Roman life in the 5th century B.C. was pretty good, relatively speaking. Roman society had freed itself from the…

Newsflash to my ideologically-pure friends: the debt limit is going to be raised. Repeating: the debt ceiling is going to be raised. End of story. The only question is that going to happen with some small steps toward our ultimate objectives, cutting spending, a conservative Congress and a president who actually supports the Constitution, rather than considering it an annoying obstacle to his creation of a Euro-style socialist utopia right here in the good ole’ USA, or is it going to be a disastrous typical Washington "compromise" crafted by "moderates?"

by Nancy Thorner According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Illinois ended Fiscal Year 2010 in worst financial shape than any other state in the country, with a total state debt of $120,743,392 when compiling outstanding debt, pension and…

By Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) With $14 trillion in debt, sustained unemployment over 9 percent and a liberal Washington orthodoxy that demands continuously higher borrowing and spending, America is on the verge of drowning in red…

Here’s U.S. Senator Mark Kirk’s response to an Illinois constituent query on the debt limit vote coming up: Thank you for contacting me regarding the debt limit and the need to address our rising national debt. I am greatly concerned…