Intrepid Mike Van Winkle from A Chicago Blog (and the Chicago Daily Observer) shares photos of the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party here.

“Crazy people.”
That’s what Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and preferred economist of aspiring despots, called the hundreds of thousands of Americans planning on attending Tax Day tea parties around the nation tomorrow.
They are “crazy” for not understanding why everyone seems to have a claim on the money they earn except them.
Read more at the Illinois Review

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Kluczynski Federal Building Plaza
Street: 230 S. Dearborn
City/Town: Chicago, IL
Speakers will include:
Erich “Mancow” Mueller – Mancow & Cassidy, WLS
Eric Odom – DontGo Movement, TaxDayTeaParty.com co-founder
Jonathan Hoenig – Capitalistpig.com, Fox News Contributor
John Tillman – Illinois Policy Institute
Joe Calomino – Americans For Prosperity
The MC for the afternoon will be Brian Costin of the
Schaumburg Freedom Coalition.
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I wasn’t 30 hours off the plane from Israel to give a presentation at Chicago’s DePaul University on March 16, before I was greeted with the kind of direct anti-Semitism that legitimizes Kassam rockets fired at Sderot.
Several anti-Israel posters draped the entrance to the building in which I began my presentation to a small audience of around 20. Then the room began filling with people not merely against Israel’s political policies and action but in clear support of the Hamas terrorist organization.
When I invited a question-and-answer session following my presentation, …

On March 16 the DePaul chapter of Hillel hosted Jacob Shrybman of the Sderot Media Center.  Led by Noam Bedein, the Sderot Media Center is the only media outlet on the ground in the western Negev. It  represents the human story of the Hamas Qassam rocket reality Israelis face in their everyday lives.  Shrybman, the Center’s advocacy director, has a special license from the State Department to exhibit a de-activated Qassam rocket in his lectures.
Prior to the event, word spread that Hillel’s speaker was intending on bringing a de-activated Qassam …

President Barack Obama’s inaugural declaration that “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works” is further evidence that the wisdom and values that animated America’s founding generation are lost – evidence that too few Americans today possess a mature skepticism of power and a love of liberty, and that too many Americans today are subject to adolescent crushes on charismatic charmers.

If Thomas Jefferson thought as Mr. Obama does, he would have written in 1776: “We hold this …