BOLINGBROOK - Illinois Review's publisher, editor and roving correspondent Mark Weyermuller is at the Illinois Conservative Activist Conference today in Bolingbrook Illinois.
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State Senator Martin Sandoval
By Michael Butler -
CHICAGO - Over the weekend, an Illinois state senator drew unexpected national attention for an incident photographed at his fundraiser.
A friend of state Senator Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) shared a series of images on social media that showed a Sandoval donor pointing what appears to be a fake firearm at a person wearing a Mexican costume and a President Donald Trump mask.
Continue reading "Democrats fantasize shooting Trump at IL Dem senator fundraiser " »
Stopping bad guys with guns requires good guys with guns. Richard Epstein writes:
Today, most of the proposed solutions are top-down. They seek to prevent violent individuals from getting their hands on guns, often forgetting that determined killers can resort to cars, bombs, and even knives. My approach is the opposite. Any mass killer is a random outlier whom it is rarely possible to identify in advance. I think that it is impossible to do anything more that will prevent these people, or indeed anyone else intent on wreaking havoc, from obtaining weapons.
The only strategy that has a fair chance of success to reduce, but never stop, all mass killings, starts from the opposite end. It is beyond dispute that gunmen utilize the element of surprise. It has long been known that most of the death and destruction of a mass shooting takes place before any police or security team has time to arrive. Killers open the door and they start shooting: no warning, no mercy, no pause. Speed is the essence of any police response. Better that a single officer enter the fray immediately than wait even ten seconds before reinforcements can pitch in.
Joe Walsh (photo: Wikipedia)
By Rich Compton -
With his radio show ratings presumably in the toilet, political chameleon Joe Walsh is once again changing colors and reinventing himself – this time as a possible anti-Trump Presidential Candidate.
For those of you unfamiliar with Joe Walsh and his rather transient and muddled professional history, let me provide a brief chronicle as I understand it.
Continue reading "Compton: Illinois' Political Chameleon Joe Walsh Changes Colors Again" »
By John F. Di Leo -
We are not in recession.
Frankly, in fact, we are not close to being in recession. While some of the indicators in our economy aren’t as exciting as they were a year ago, this is still a solid period of growth for the United States as a whole.
For political reasons, however, the Left wants the American voter to think that China’s downturn – yes, China’s - is a signal that an American recession is coming… and nothing could be further from the truth.
Continue reading "Di Leo: Recession Fears Fly in the Face of Reality" »
By Nancy Thorner -
Hoaxes, although not new, are meant to scare people mostly for the benefit of those who perpetuate them. The word "hoax" has been used since the late 1700s. It began as a shortened version of the verb hocus, which meant “to cheat" or “to impose upon."
A hoax occurs when a person or group of people purposefully make up a false story and pass it off as the truth. Hoaxes are different from simple misunderstandings or jokes because they are deliberate attempts to deceive others.
Continue reading "Thorner: Did kangaroo court justice prevail at Roundup weed killer trials?" »
By Mark Weyermuller -
I woke up this morning to see one of the lead stories is that former press secretary under President Trump will be back in prime time. Sean Spicer is booked to join the cast of "Dancing with the Stars" next season.
Continue reading "Where's Weyermuller? Planning to watch Sean Spicer "Dancing With The Stars"" »
By Randy Rossi -
For those that have actually studied American history, the new endless 24/7 accusations by Democrats that President Trump, Republicans, and conservatives are racists is not only dishonest and slanderous, it is simply bizarre. Wasn’t the GOP the party of Lincoln and the Union Army that fought to free the slaves? Wasn’t the Democrat Party the party of the Confederate Army that fought to keep slavery? Wasn’t it the Republican Party that voted for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments which gave African Americans freedom and ended slavery, gave them American citizenship, and gave them the right to vote while the Democrat Party voted against all three of those amendments? The bottom line is that if the Democrats had won the Civil War, African Americans could still be slaves and wouldn’t be able to vote!
Continue reading "Rossi: The Bizarre Democrat Accusations of Trump/GOP Racism " »
By Rev. Gregory Jensen -
Recently, my Madison, Wisconsin, parish offered to take up a collection to pay my bail and legal fees. The offer while sincere was premature and tongue in cheek. But a proposed change in state law brings with it a real possibility of putting me in legal jeopardy.
My congregation’s concern for me stems from the Clergy Mandatory Reporter Act (CMRA) being put forward by Democrat state legislators Sen. Lena Taylor, Rep. Chris Taylor, and Rep. Melissa Sargent.
Continue reading "Wisconsin Democrats want to hear your confession" »
Speaking at the 13th International Conference on Climate Change held on July 25th in Washington, D.C., Dr. Roy W. Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville said, “There is no climate crisis. There is no climate emergency. Even if all of the warming we’ve seen in any observational data set is due to increasing CO2 (carbon dioxide), which I don’t believe it is, it’s probably too small for any person to feel in their lifetime.”
Yet, on July 9, Reuters News Agency reported “Democratic lawmakers, including six presidential candidates, on Tuesday unveiled a Congressional resolution declaring a climate change emergency to spur ‘sweeping reforms’ to stem a dangerous rise in global temperatures. The non-binding resolution, introduced by Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Earl Blumenauer and Senator Bernie Sanders, ‘demands a national, social, industrial and economic mobilization’ to ‘halt, reverse, mitigate and prepare for the consequences of the climate emergency and to restore the climate for future generations.’”
Continue reading "Canada: There is No ‘Climate Emergency!'" »
This month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will launch a wide-ranging probe into possible antitrust behavior by social media and technology giants. Although no companies were specifically named, it’s not hard to guess which corporations will be in the limelight: Amazon, Facebook, and, of course, the mother of all technology titans, Google.
Continue reading "Role Reversal: Government Searches Google" »
The Jussie Smollett story has been declared not fit for jokes. “It’s a straight-up tragedy,” declares the co-creator of a Comedy Central show, South Side, set in Chicago.
Bashir Salahuddin, a former Jimmy Fallon writer, says “The whole situation is unfortunate. Particularly for the city, there’s bigger problems for them to handle.”
Yes, well, there are bigger problems than fake crimes, which is why causing hundreds of hours of police work to be wasted on a fictitious attack staged for the purposes of ego gratification and publicity ought to be punished both criminally and socially. Instead, Smollett was let off scot free by the justice system and largely let off by the usual cultural leaders. Saturday Night Live did a sketch on him months ago, but things have been notably quiet on the mockery front. Smollett is in a sense being treated as a victim who deserves some space to recover rather than the perpetrator of the most notorious fake hate crime of this century.
More HERE
By David French -
One of the most striking aspects of modern Evangelical political thinking is its projection of inevitable decline, as if the present trends of secularization and increasing religious intolerance represent the first stages of an irreversible slide. The result is a fearful defensive crouch in the face of challenges to religious liberty that are serious but not grave and workplace discrimination that is troublesome but not crippling.
Finland’s free college for all turns out to be free college for just some.Jason DeLisle and Preston Cooper write:
Finland offers a nice deal for students only if they are lucky and talented enough to get in. In 2016, Finnish institutions of higher education accepted just 33 percent of applicants. That’s the degree of selectivity we’d expect from an elite college in America, yet that is the admissions rate for Finland’s entire university system. There is a price to pay for that kind of selectivity: Finland ranks in the bottom third of developed countries for college-degree attainment. Meanwhile, the tuition-charging United States ranks in the top third, thanks to open-enrollment policies at many of our colleges and universities, along with private financing and plenty of spots offered through a diverse range of institutions.
Continue reading "What European Countries Sacrifice for Free College" »
Chairman Morrison calls photo images from a Senator Sandoval fundraiser which depict the shooting of President Trump "Disturbing and downright vile"
CHICAGO, IL – Cook County GOP Chairman Sean Morrison is calling on Democrat State Senator Martin Sandoval to publicly explain why the senator finds these disturbing images from his fundraiser which depict a mock shooting of President Trump (with an assault weapon) to be appropriate behavior for an elected official’s event.
"These photos are disturbing and downright vile," said Chairman Morrison. "Where shootings, murders and violence rage on in parts of Chicago, we have a Democrat state senator who evidently thinks simulating an assassination of the President of the United States is acceptable behavior and a positive message for public consumption.
WHEATON - National Republicans such as presidential advisor KellyAnne Conway condemned what went on at an Illinois senator's fundraiser last Friday - and called on Democrats to voice their disapproval. The Jeanne Ives for Congress campaign stepped out on the issue, calling on the 6th CD Democrat incumbent Sean Casten to "disavow" the stunt at State Senator Sandoval's golf outing.
Photos of a fundraiser attendee pointing a fake semiautomatic firearm at a person wearing a Trump mask with a traditional Mexican costume circulated social media.
The Ives campaign release said:
Illinois Review will be supporting the Illinois Conservative Union's annual conference Saturday, August 24th in Bolingbrook, Illinois. We look forward to seeing conservatives interested in making a difference in Illinois! But if you're unable to attend, we agree that listening to the Stephanie Trussell Show would be an excellent alternative:
By Mark Weyermuller -
The final show of the Stephanie W. Trussell Show is LIVE this Saturday 3-6pm on the 50,000 talk radio. I’m joining her in the studio for a segment at 5:31. She will be talking your calls & texts the whole 3 hours at 312-591-8900. Please call in!
Stephanie Trussell describes herself as a loud outspoken conservative grandmother driving around in the suburbs in a minivan. Eight years ago she won a contest at WLS to be “a talk show host for a day.” After she did a her one hour show, she was asked to fill in on occasion ending up with her own show once a week for three hours.
Continue reading "Where’s Weyermuller? Joining Stephanie Trussell on last WLS AM show" »
By Nancy Thorner -
We all know who the worst villains in Washington, D.C. are. We hear their voices in our nightmares. We know their names better than we know the names of our neighbors, names such as Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, Jerry Nadler, Elijah Cummings, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, Barack Obama, Michael Hayden, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Rashida Tlaib, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Al Green, Donna Brazile, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Yet whenever we consider what’s wrong with our country—whether it’s open borders, the sacred status of illegal aliens and welfare recipients, our perverted education system, Antifa, sanctuary cities and states, federal judges that mistake their robes for those of God, federal bureaucrats that believe in undermining a presidential election--the blame is placed upon President Trump and even considered an act of patriotism by the so-called villains listed above.
Is it any wonder how easy it is to get downhearted these days?
