Illinois Review

Four GOP state lawmakers launch Restore Illinois bus tour

Xenia, IL – This week, several lawmakers will hit the road to rally voters and talk about the important issues facing the State of Illinois, a press release said Monday afternoon.

The Restore Illinois Statewide Bus Tour will feature State Representatives Chris Miller (R-Oakland); Darren Bailey (R-Xenia); Blaine Wilhour (R-Beecher City); and Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville). The Tour will go as far south as Metropolis and as far north as Rockford and several locations in between. At each bus stop, the lawmakers hope to rally voters as they answer questions.

“Our faith, our values, and our Constitutional rights are under assault,” Bailey said. “We can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch as our freedoms are systematically being eroded. If we as freedom loving Americans are asleep at the wheel on Election Day, the country we know, and love could soon be gone. This bus tour is a rallying cry for patriots to step up and get involved. Illinois is not lost, but it soon will be if we do not take a stand.”

Di Leo: The Biden Crime Family – From Embarrassment to Extortion

By John F. Di Leo - 

Many politicians have an embarrassment or two in their families.

In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy was the most famous example.  Billy Carter ran a dingy, dreadful gas station (Amoco was constantly trying to find a way to force him to clean it up) and upon his brother’s election, he marketed a cheap beer – Billy Beer! - to capitalize on his proximity to fame and fortune.

But it wasn't illegal. It was pretty embarrassing for Jimmy, sure, but it didn’t reflect badly on the president in the eyes of the law. There’s no law against being the brother of a slob with an unkempt gas station.

Similarly, there have been other presidents with a son or daughter whose misbehavior embarrassed them in the press - being notorious for drunk driving, drug abuse, wild partying, or other such problems.

But even if their behavior was illegal, it only reflected upon the politician as an impropriety, a black mark.  It wasn't like the politician himself was the one breaking the law.

Trump shouts out to IL GOP candidate Mark Curran at Wisconsin rally

Illinois' GOP candidate for US Senate was on hand at the Janesville, Wisconsin Trump rally Saturday night, and received a shout out from the President - who went on to take a jab at Illinois Gov JB Pritzker that "Illinois could use a new governor ..." 

Curran replied to the president, holding up a red cap saying instead of the traditional "Make America Great Again," saying "Make Them Cry Again" - referring to the shocking display of temper tantrums Leftists showed when Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016.  

Curran is challenging Democrat incumbent Dick Durbin, who has represented Illinois to the US Senate since 1997. 

Thorner: Ways in which 2020 election differs from 2016 signals Trump victory

2016 photo

By Nancy Thorner -

Biased polling to raise money, discourage the Republican vote and hide voter fraud has been a weapon for Democrats all my life. This year incentives to jigger polls have never been greater for a Democrat Establishment who fears their colleges, cities, and states will go broke without a federal bailout that depends on the Democrats at least holding the House.  But fundamental polling problems will cause even the best like Trafalgar to underestimate Trump support.

There are about 12% more registered voters this year over 2016. Did they get a call?  Pollsters still mostly call landlines. In 2016, about 50% had landlines, in 2020, that percentage is down to about 37%. Did the many millions that have switched to cell phones get a call?  How many pollsters call only registered voters instead only those that voted the last 4 out of 5 elections? Polls have been wrong around the world because they get librarians, teachers and unemployed “activists” to respond, while plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. (blue collar folks) refuse to talk to them.

A net of one sixth of people asked refuse to answer polls when they are voting for Trump, only 6% refuse to say Biden, 23% refuse to answer, Trump. That means only 77 % of Trump vote is there but 94 % of Biden vote is there for pollsters.

61% likely US voters think social media bad for politics

With Facebook and Twitter under fire for their one-sided censorship of the news, most voters agree that social media has had a negative impact on politics in this country.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters now think the impact on politics of social media like Facebook and Twitter has been bad for the nation. That’s up from 51% when Rasmussen first asked the question three years ago.

Just seven percent (7%) say social media has been good for politics in this country, while 28% consider it neither good nor bad.

What do you think? Has social media been good or bad for politics? 

Rossi: Proof The “Fake News” Is Indeed “The Enemy Of the People”

By Randy Rossi - 

If you had any doubt about the “Fake News” being “The Enemy of the People”, the fact that most of the “Fake News” hid the New York Post’s breakthrough report on the content of Hunter Biden’s computer which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he used his dad’s powerful position as VP to make millions of dollars from China, Russia, Ukraine, and other countries proves that the “Fake News” acts as an agent for Democrats and against Republicans.

Not only did Twitter and Facebook censor anybody that tried to share this critical news with the American people, the vast majority of news sources refused to report on this breakthrough news hiding it from the American people. In the NBC and ABC debates with President Trump and VP Biden, this breakthrough news was not even mentioned once as we are just a few days away from the election.

Pritzker: Illinois Lockdown Is All Trump's Fault

By Stephen Moore - 

Illinois continues to have one of the harshest economic lockdowns in the country and new unemployment claims have risen for the past four consecutive weeks - capped by a 27 percent increase last week.

Rockford is Illinois’ third-largest city. Mayor Tom McNamara, a Democrats is begging Pritzker, to end some state mandates, including one that’s shut down indoor dining in his region.

He says if restaurants don’t get relief “we're really just saying close your doors, you're not going to make it through the holiday season.”

Will the Cultural Revolution Be Canceled?

Americans aren't as keen on "wokeness" as our major institutions are. Joel Kotkin writes:

It’s an article of faith among many conservatives, and some liberals, that we’re being swept by a Maoist cultural revolution destined to transform American society into a woke collective. Yet before surrendering basics like equality of opportunity, social order, and free speech to leftist authoritarians, we should consider whether they’re the ones who will wind up getting canceled.

Most Americans don’t favor defunding police or instituting race quotas; they are wary of the costs connected with the Green New Deal and of allowing Washington to control local zoning. Many are already voting with their feet, fleeing places that promote these ideas and seeking out areas aligned with more recognizable American values. Over the past 20 years, virtually all the most progressive large states—New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California—have suffered massive outmigration, while red or purplish states like Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, or Arizona welcome more and more Americans to resettle there. On the metropolitan level, even before Covid-19 accelerated the trend, a steady, largely unacknowledged, movement from the deep-blue core to the less progressive suburbs or exurbs has been underway.

Amy Coney Barrett Will Protect the Constitution

Amy Coney Barrett's judicial philosophy will protect the Constitution. Stephanie Taub writes:

Modern debates over judicial nominees, to our great national shame, seem to feature more attacks on the person than sincere deliberation about his or her professional credentials.

Missing is any reflection on the nominee’s judicial philosophy and demonstrated commitment to upholding the Constitution.

Thorner: Don't believe the doomsday reports of Trump losing

By Nancy Thorner -

Media reports every day express the notion that President Donald J. Trump is double digits behind former Vice President Joe Biden in the polls to depress voting among Republicans.  But we all know what happened in 2016 in the Hillary/Trump race for president when the polls predicted Hillary would win by a landslide, and then she lost to outsider businessman Donald Trump.

According to the following article posted at Powerlineblog.com, Beneath the Top Line Poll Numbers, "The shift to the left by the Democrat Party of today has occurred chiefly among white Democrats. This may be the hidden weakness that delivers the election to Trump."

What Tammy Duckworth is telling Illinoisans about Amy Coney Barrett

CHICAGO - Illinois' junior US Senator Tammy Duckworth will not be supporting Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court - and nothing any Illinois constituent can say will change her mind. Judge Barrett will not be an "impartial, fair and independent jurist," she says in responses she's sending to those asking her to support Judge Barrett. 

Here's what Duckworth is sending to those inquiring: 

Dear Neighbor,

Thank you for contacting me about the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for a lifetime term. I appreciate you taking the time to make me aware of your concerns on this important matter. 

As your Senator, my constitutional responsibility is to fairly evaluate a Supreme Court nominee’s qualifications to serve a lifetime appointment. To earn my support, a nominee must demonstrate the capability and willingness to serve as an independent jurist who exercises integrity, wisdom and fairness on the bench. I carefully examined Judge Barrett’s record and suitability after President Trump nominated her in 2017 to serve a lifetime appointment as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers our home State of Illinois. I was forced to oppose Judge Barrett’s confirmation after concluding that Judge Barrett demonstrated neither the capability nor willingness to serve as an impartial, fair and independent jurist.

They Say Scandinavia But They Mean Venezuela

What do Democratic Socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want America to look like? They say they want America to emulate Scandinavian countries like Denmark and Sweden. But do their proposed policies reflect that? Or do they point down a darker path? Debbie D’Souza, a native Venezuelan and political commentator, investigates.

Will County Board Dems agree to move forward with racial reparations for "transgenerational damage"

WILL COUNTY - Will County and Illinois residents may not be aware of its offensive history, but the Will County Democrats have decided that because the county and state participated in slavery, it is time they compensate for it. 

At least those Will County citizens participating in legalized pot sales will. 

This week, the Will County majority voted to set up a committee to determine how funds the county acquires via cannabis sales can be channeled towards slave descendents. 

The Dems agreed that the state of Illinois promoted "white supremacy" and "made legal, tolerated and enabled the institution of slavery" in its history.

The Caucus voted to move forward with the following proclamation, entitled "Repairing the Transgenerational Damage Done through Slavery, the Black Codes, the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration in Will County, IL:" 

Former IL GOP House floor leader endorses Dem in 65th race

GENEVA - Steve Andersson once served as the Illinois Republican House Floor Leader - a position with considerable political influence - but this campaign season, he's backing the Democrat running in the 65th District. 

Andersson, who stepped down as floor leader after voting against his constituents to raise the Illinois income tax rate to 4.95% from 3.75% in 2017, chose not to seek re-election in 2018.  

Democrat Martha Paschke posted on her Facebook page photos taken during the press conference announcing Andersson's support.

Where’s Weyermuller? Reviewing Evanston Bakery's Presidential “Cookie Polling“

By Mark Weyermuller -

The media is obsessed with election surveys, studies, and polls. I often question the legitimacy of these polls, along with who pays to promote them. With that I mind, I stopped by Bennison's Bakery on Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois to check on their presidential "cookie poll."

Bennison's are selling Joe Biden and Donald Trump sugar cookies for $2.50 each (plus tax) during the campaign season. Each sale is posted as a vote on a board behind the counter. 

Today Biden in today’s polls based on cookie sales leads 27 to 13. That's 67% to 33%.  Trump receiving 33% in an area of 100% Democrats means a huge amount of Democrats are voting Trump.

The overall cookie count for the past month of Biden 864 to Trump 242 for 1106 cookies purchased. That’s 78% Biden and 22% Trump, again a big deal for Trump as people, I mean Democrats are voting Trump. 

The cookie polling has been very accurate in the past. We covered this in 2016 at Illinois Review. 

The election is just 20 days away on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. 

Di Leo: Musings on a Washington Circus

By John F. Di Leo - 

Reflections on the confirmation process, now and then... 

While watching the news this week, one was forced to ponder many things... the Supreme Court, the United States Senate, the wonders of the internet, and how far we have fallen as a nation. 

We have more information at our fingertips today than anyone ever had in generations before.  Questions might take hours in a library to research, staring at encyclopedias, digging through dusty old reference books, even squinting to read old periodicals on microfiche. 

Such methods still exist, for data not yet digitized, but 90% of what we need is now available online at the click of a mouse. There is no longer any excuse for being ignorant of the process, the issues of the day, or the big names in the news.  Everything is literally at our fingertips. 

 

New Trump Ad Asks: Why Did Joe Biden Let Hunter Do It?

As the scandal deepens around Joe Biden’s lies to the American people about never discussing his son Hunter’s foreign business deals, President Trump’s re-election campaign today launched a new ad asking why Joe Biden never stopped his son from selling access to his powerful father. The ad details Hunter’s $83,000-per-month position with a Ukrainian energy company, his $1.5 billion business deal with a communist Chinese bank, and his legal work with a corrupt businessman in Romania, all while his father was Vice President of the United States.

Three Other Meetings That Were Not On Joe Biden’s “Official Schedule”

According to an April 17, 2015, email published by The New York Post, Hunter Biden arranged a meeting between his father, Vice President Joe Biden, and a top advisor to the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, Ukrainian Vadym Pozharskyi. “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email from Pozharskyi to Hunter reads.

In response to this bombshell, mid-level Biden staffer Andrew Bates said, “we have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”

But now Team Biden’s story is changing. “Biden’s campaign would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi, which wouldn’t appear on Biden’s official schedule. But they said any encounter would have been cursory,” reported Politico. In short, the Biden campaign is now describing the length of a meeting they originally claimed did not exist.

Below are three confirmed meetings that did not make it onto Biden’s “official schedule.” Two of them involve his family members’ business partners:

1. Politico reported this week that Vice President Biden arranged an Oval Office meeting with President Obama for his son-in-law Howard Krein's business partners Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes in 2011. There's a photo of it. It was not on Biden's “official schedule.”
2. Vice President Biden’s 2013 introduction to Jonathan Li in Beijing was also not on his “official schedule.” Hunter Biden admits he arranged the meeting for Li, who ran a Chinese private-equity fund and was setting up a new fund with Hunter. “Ten days after the Bidens’ trip, Shanghai authorities issued the fund’s business license,” reported NBC News. Amazing timing!
3. In January 2017, Vice President Biden met with President Obama, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice in the Oval Office to discuss the political targeting of incoming National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Biden lied about this meeting. It was also not on his “official schedule.”

32,000+ scientists say COVID policies demanding lockdowns until vaccines available "damaging" and "harmful"

WHEATON - Congressman Sean Casten (IL-06) demanded this week the media censor a declaration agreed upon by thousands of scientists, epidemiologists and other respected public health professionals expressing what they called "grave concerns" about the impact of prevailing COVID-19 policies.

The piece especially condemns public policies such as those Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has set into place, which isolate citizens until a COVID vaccine is available. 

In "The Great Barrington Declaration," the experts warn such ongoing lockdowns "will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed." 

Casten, who calls himself a climate change scientist, said the declaration was "a heaping, stinking pile of junk science, advocating that we isolate the sick and the elderly and pretend that COVID doesn't effect [sic] young healthy people in the name of 'restarting' the economy and herd immunity."

32,000 scientists agree on what Casten demeans as "a heaping, stinking pile of junk science"

WHEATON - The Washington Times, this morning, reported a recent Twitter-rant in which Democrat incumbent Sean Casten (IL-06) attempted to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration petition, which calls for using “focused protection” to isolate the elderly and vulnerable while opening up the rest of the society to “build up immunity to the virus through natural protection,” over an endless lockdown.

The document Casten rejected was co-authored by epidemiologists at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford. Thirty-two thousand other scientists and medical experts signed on, endorsing the policy prescription.

"It is a heaping, stinking pile of junk science, advocating that we isolate the sick and the elderly and pretend that COVID doesn't effect [sic] young healthy people in the name of 'restarting' the economy and herd immunity," Casten tweeted earlier this week. 

Then he wrote, “The GBD advocates nothing more than killing Americans. That is pure, unadulterated evil.”

The congressman's response shocked the Ives' campaign.

Republican challenger says she's closing gap with Bustos in 17th CD

EAST MOLINE – Polling released Wednesday by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and Esther for Congress campaign shows King at 44.2%, Bustos at 48.5%, and 7.3% undecided. Voters continue to react favorably toward Esther Joy King’s message, with nearly three quarters of voters recognizing her name and a more than 2:1 positive image. The poll, conducted by The Tarrance Group, is a summary of findings from a survey of voters in Illinois’ 17th Congressional District conducted Oct. 10-12, 2020. The results reflect a survey of 418 voters in the district, with a margin of error of +/-4.9%.

The polling was initially reported in the insider daily, Politico Playbook, which also noted that Bustos has recently begun airing negative attack ads against King, something Bustos said she wouldn’t do but is a strong indicator of concern within her campaign.

Former Democrat operative turned Facebook official admits censoring story harmful to Biden

Following the explosive reporting in the New York Post that Joe Biden lied to the American people about never discussing his son Hunter’s corrupt foreign business deals, a Facebook communications official took to social media to declare his intention to purposefully censor the news as obviously harmful to Biden. Andy Stone, whose Twitter profile describes his work as “Communications, @Facebook,” and whose LinkedIn profile describes him as a “Policy Communications Manager” at Facebook, tweeted that he would not link to the Post article and invited fact checkers to attack it. He also declared his intention to reduce the story’s distribution on Facebook.

Stone’s Twitter profile also lists previous employers, including the Democrats’ House Majority PAC, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Democrat Rep. Jerry McNerney (CA-9).

“Silicon Valley leftists are now openly bragging about interfering with the election to help Joe Biden and undermine President Trump by purposefully censoring journalism in a clear effort to rig the election,” said Hogan Gidley, Trump campaign national press secretary. “The social media giants and tech overlords have already declared themselves to be the sole arbiters of truth, and now they’re trying to prevent people from seeing important information that proves Joe Biden was lying to the American people and that he clearly knows about his son’s lucrative, corrupt business schemes in foreign countries. This is election interference, plain and simple.”

• From the Trump Campaign 

Thorner: Covid-19, a Political Tool to "Reset the World”

By Nancy Thorner - 

Government leaders, telecom, media and technology are all “reimagining” everything.  The world’s future has radically changed since the onslaught of government dictates over the Covid virus scare.  Clearly, the world’s behaviors have become hysterical.  It’s surprising how easily the masses have accepted the new tyrannical dictates of masks, social distancing, etc.

 

William F. Jasper, Senior Editor of The New American, wrote the following about “The Great Reset” in the September 7, 2020 issue of the magazine:

"The Great Reset is the latest and greatest pet project of the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the Council of Foreign Relation and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, and other globalist organizations. These world saviors noted above unleashed the first propaganda installment for their global utopian plan on July 9th with the release of the book by World Economic Forum co-founder and president Klaus Schwab entitled Covid-19, a Political Tool to "Reset" the Entire World.

“The Great Reset” will be the theme of a summit in January 2021, convened by the World Economic Forum.  The four building blocks include: 

1. Change our mindset – if we made it up once, we can make it up again,
2. Create new metrics – measuring what matters will change everything,
3. Design new incentives – you get what you pay for,
4. Build genuine connection – distance is the danger.

Illinois Policy: Another Illinois taxpayer heads for Florida

First published by Illinois Policy - 

“I was born and raised here, and I raised my family here. I’ve given 50 years of my life to this state. And it’s just not financially feasible anymore."

“I certainly wouldn’t [move] if there wasn’t such a financial difference. We’re deeply rooted here. Sure, Florida’s a nice place to visit, always thought so. But I never thought about setting up home base anywhere else."

“My dad and I are [both] moving out. Combined, he and I are going to save $96,000 a year just from the move – Florida doesn’t have a state income tax at all."

“We go from paying right now around $62,000 or $63,000 but we calculated that under the new progressive tax we’d pay just over $96,000 in taxes, so that’s the amount we’ll be saving by the move."

“I work for a national firm, and we have a lot of institutional clients. They’re sitting on the sidelines, too. [Illinois is] throttling the investment, the flow of capital from the private side … because they’re scared to death of what’s going to happen."

Beckman: Kamala's Nose is Growing

By Hank Beckman -

Wednesday’s vice presidential debate gave much of the country its first look at the person who, if the polls are accurate this time, could well be the first female president of the United States.

Whether you were turned off by her condescending smirk at every other utterance by Vice President Mike Pence or think she is the latest star gifted upon us by the Democrats and their publicists in the mainstream media, part of your reaction to her performance must calculate whether or not she is presidential material.

No honest person can deny that should Biden-Harris prevail Nov. 3, sooner or later Harris has an excellent chance of becoming president. Either some medical problem will force Joe Biden from office, or Harris could become president in 2024 when he retires. Because no one is going to accept a president that will be 82 before he takes the oath for his second term in office.

Where’s Weyermuller? Laughing at Zanies with good-humored Republicans

By Mark Weyermuller - 

Illinois has been suffering job and commerce loss with shutdowns due to Covid since March of this year.  The comedy business is one example which state officials might had considered non-essential. I feel all jobs are essential.

Chicago area Republicans stepped up to show laughter is essential, especially in times of crisis.

Last week, Zanies Comedy Club in Rosemont, Illinois reopened for shows. Former Illinois congressional candidate and current 39th Chicago Ward deputy committeeman Max Rice organized a group of candidates to bring laughter back.

To start out the fun, Max asked the audience when their first job was. People responded by yelling out ages "15-16" and so on.  Max quipped, "Our Governor J.B. Pritzker got his first job just last year."  The audience roared.

New Trump Ads Tout President's Leadership Throughout the Pandemic, Highlight Threat of Biden's Plans

How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots

What’s the difference between absentee balloting and universal mail-in balloting? The latter might sound like a great idea, but is it really? Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute answers this vitally important question.

Di Leo: Christopher Columbus, Ambassador of Western Civilization

By John F. Di Leo - 

On October 12, 1492, the Genoan navigator Crisforo Colombo first reached land in the Western Hemisphere.

Columbus takes a lot of ribbing these days, for having thought he was in another part of the world, for not really being the first to discover the Americas, for having worked for a different country than the one of his birth, for never admitting that he had discovered a whole new land mass.

But, buried beneath these minor complaints, his accomplishments were enormous.… He did what had never been done before, showing amazing creativity, political skill, and determination.

Yes, Columbus does deserve a day to himself… Not only here in the United States, but across the Americas.  We all owe our superior standard of living to the man who opened up this hemisphere to the ways of the West.

Conservative women support Judge Amy Coney Barrett for US Supreme Court

DC - Women of all ages support Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court - Clips gathered by Susan B. Anthony List:

73% say religious faith should not be a Supreme Court candidate's determining factor

Some Democratic opponents of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are criticizing her conservative Catholic beliefs. But three-out-of-four voters say a candidate’s religious faith should not determine whether he or she can serve on the high court.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters think a nominee’s religion should be a deciding factor in determining who sits on the Supreme Court. Seventy-three percent (73%) reject that position and say religious faith should not be a determining factor. (To see survey question wording, click here.) 

Because the Catholic Church opposes abortion, 14% believe Catholics should be prohibited from sitting on the Supreme Court. Seventy-seven percent (77%) disagree.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett's opening statement

WASHINGTON - Before Judge Amy Coney Barrett's US Senate confirmation hearing Monday, the following copy of her opening statement was released. Thus far this morning, each member of the US Senate Judiciary Committee has expressed his or her thoughts about the proceedings.

Statement:  

Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Members of the Committee: I am honored and humbled to appear before you as a nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

I thank the President for entrusting me with this profound responsibility, as well as for the graciousness that he and the First Lady have shown my family throughout this process.

I thank Senator Young for introducing me, as he did at my hearing to serve on the Seventh Circuit. I thank Senator Braun for his generous support. And I am especially grateful to former Dean Patty O’Hara of Notre Dame Law School. She hired me as a professor nearly 20 years ago and has been a mentor, colleague, and friend ever since.

I thank the Members of this Committee—and your other colleagues in the Senate—who have taken the time to meet with me since my nomination. It has been a privilege to meet you.

Rossi: Will President Trump Ever Get Credit for His Accomplishments?

By Randy Rossi - 

President Trump just had two major accomplishments that most Americans have not even heard of because they are not covered in the “Fake News”. First, Gallup just released a new poll which showed that 56% of Americans feel that they are better off right now than they were under President Obama. That is amazing given the difficulty we are all experiencing because of Covid 19. That tells you that VP Pence was right when he said in the debate with Kamala Harris that President Trump delivered the lowest unemployment in American history for Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians and provided a $1,200 pay increase for the average American through his tax cuts. Obviously, Americans get it since they now believe that they are better off under President Trump (56%) then under presidents Obama (45%) and both Bushes (GW 47% and GHW 38%) per the Gallup polls.

Second, President Trump just got his third nomination for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for successfully negotiating the first new Mideast peace deal in 26 years between Israel, UAE, and Bahrain which is absolutely amazing. Those nominations came from Sweden, Norway, and Australia yet they are never mentioned on the “Fake News” because they can’t stand giving President Trump credit for anything. Because of that lack of coverage, most Americans don’t know about it. As I always say “If Trump walked across the ocean to Europe, the “Fake News” headline would be “Trump can’t swim!”.

Iconic Sex Pistols Singer Johnny Rotten: ‘Of Course I’m Voting For Trump’

Johnny Rotten famously sang “God Save The Queen” back in the heyday of punk in the late 1970s, but in 2020, he’s singing “God Save The President.”

In keeping with the crazy times of this year, even the singer of “Pretty Vacant” is weighing in on the presidential election.

Rotten, whose real name is John Lydon, holds three citizenships — U.S., British and Irish. And he told the BBC he’s “definitely” voting for President Trump in the Nov. 3 election.

“Yes, of course, I’m voting for Trump,” Lydon said in the interview. “He’s an individual thinker, I’ll give him that for a start. He’s not the most lovable fellow on God’s earth, but I cannot see the opposition as offering me anything by way of a solution.”

More HERE

WHO doctor backflips on virus lockdowns: Don't use them as a 'primary control'

A World Health Organization doctor has backflipped on the organization's original Covid-19 stance, calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies as a "primary control method".

Dr David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop "using lockdowns as your primary control method" of the coronavirus.

He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty – with no mention of the potential lives saved.

More HERE

Security Guard Hired By Local NBC News Station Charged With Murder Of Right-Wing Protester

A right-wing protester was killed in a violent confrontation that took place amid dueling protests in downtown Denver, Colorado, Saturday, and a private security guard, hired by a local news organization, is being held on murder charges.

The incident, 9News Denver reports, took place as a “Patriot Rally” and an “Antifa/BLM Soup Drive” faced off near the Denver Civic Center late Saturday afternoon. Although both protests began peacefully, tensions quickly escalated between the opposing groups — tensions which eventually led to the deadly shooting.

More HERE

Keith Olbermann: ‘The Amy Coney Barretts Must Be Prosecuted And Convicted And Removed From Our Society’

Leftist Keith Olbermann ranted in a new YouTube video on Thursday that those who support President Donald Trump, including federal judge and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, “must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society.”

“Trump can be and must be expunged. The hate he has triggered, the pandora’s box he has opened, they will not be so easily destroyed. So, let us brace ourselves. The task is twofold,” Olbermann said. “The terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box and then he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try and rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus.”

More HERE

Democrat Joe Biden: Voters ‘Don’t’ Deserve To Know If I’m Going To Pack Supreme Court

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told a local news reporter on Friday afternoon that voters do not deserve to know whether he will pack the Supreme Court if he wins the upcoming the election.

“Sir, I’ve got to ask you about packing the courts and I know you said yesterday you aren’t going to answer the question until after the election, but this is the number one thing that I’ve been asking about from viewers in the past couple of days,” the reporter said to Biden.

“Well, you’ve been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don’t want me continuing to talk about what they’re doing to the court right now,” Biden responded.

“Well sir, don’t the voters deserve to know—” the reporter pressed.

“No, they don’t,” Biden responded.

Has anyone written the “Actually Biden didn’t really mean Americans don’t deserve to know his court-packing, even though that’s what he said?” #SCOTUS https://t.co/wWuDrV4xKv

— John Cooper (@thejcoop) October 10, 2020

More HERE

Rene Hernandez: Will the state of Illinois reward or punish our new business?

CHICAGO - Rene Hernandez was born in Mexico, and is starting his own business in Illinois.

Why would Illinois want to make it harder for immigrants like him to start successful small businesses?

He answers in this 2 minute video: 

The very week the COVID lockdown hit Illinois, Rene Hernandez Jr. began filing paperwork to launch a small business.

“Who starts a business when a pandemic is hitting? We didn’t know what it all meant. I thought it would be just a couple of weeks of slowdown, but little did I know …” the 43-year-old senior sales rep said, looking back, shaking his head.

Bost tests positive for COVID

CARBONDALE - Illinois Congressman Mike Bost (IL-12) announced Friday morning he has tested positive for COVID-19. From his office: 

I learned last night that I have tested positive for COVID-19. Despite taking my temperature regularly and having no evidence of a fever, I experienced a mild cough and a rapid loss of both taste and smell and recognized it was important to get tested immediately.

My staff and I have consulted with Congress' Office of the Attending Physician for additional guidance and any staff I've been in close contact with will quarantine until receiving their own test results. We are also beginning the process of reaching out to any constituents I've met with in recent days.

I am postponing my public event schedule but will continue conducting virtual meetings as I isolate at home. We are taking this situation seriously and will continue to serve the people of Southern Illinois while doing our best to ensure their health and safety. I will provide additional updates in the days ahead and am anxious to get back to work as soon as I make a full recovery.

Stossel: Fake Fact-Checking

Facebook lets activists restrict my videos based on something I never said.

By John Stossel - 

Recently, I released a video that called California’s fires “government fueled.”

A few days later, Facebook inserted a warning on my video: “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead.”

Some of my viewers now feel betrayed. One wrote: “Shameful, John … what happened to you!!? Your reporting was always fair … [but] your … fires story was so … unfair, even Facebook tagged it.”

 A “fact check” from Facebook carries weight.

More HERE

Thorner: Ayn Rand’s visionary novel warns of socialism should Biden-Harris prevail

By Nancy Thorner -

One of our greatest conservative philosophers and authors of the 20th century, Ayn Rand, in her greatest work, Atlas Shrugged, sums up exactly where we are today with this quote from her novel:   

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.”

Census Report Shows How Jaw-Dropping Trump’s Economy Was Before Shutdowns

Based on a Census Bureau report released last Tuesday, the current debate over economic policy might come down to a question of numbers. Which would you prefer: A $1,200 “stimulus” check while not working during lockdowns, or a nearly $4,400 pay increase in a growing job?

The Census report, which chronicled changes in income and poverty in 2019, documented the state of the economy well before the coronavirus hit. But the amazing strength of the data in that report shows what the American economy, and American workers, can achieve—if given the right policy environment and opportunities.

The headline number from the Census report sounds so large as to be a misprint: Real median income for American households increased 6.8 percent in 2019—a jump of almost $4,400. Think about it for a moment: How many businesses offer 6.8 percent annual raises to all their workers?

More HERE

New Trump Campaign Ads Highlight the Threat of Joe Biden's Far-Left Agenda

President Trump's re-election campaign released two new ads featuring testimonials from Americans whose livelihoods are being threatened by Joe Biden's radical left-wing policies but have prospered under President Trump.

Trump Campaign Launches New Ad On Joe Biden's Submission to the Left-Wing Mob

President Trump’s re-election campaign recently launched a new television ad featuring testimonials from multiple police officers on Joe Biden's failure to support our men and women in blue.

New Trump Ad: A second chance thanks to our pro-growth economic policies!

Tony Rankin was given a second chance at life thanks to our pro-growth economic policies!

Where Do You Want to Live: Red State or Blue State?

We're supposed to be the United States of America. But in many ways, we're now divided into two very different nations: red states and blue states. Which ones are succeeding? Which ones are failing? And why? To answer these questions, economist Stephen Moore compares them side-by-side.

Rossi: 4,800 Scientific and Medical Experts say President Trump and Sweden Are Right About Covid 19

By Randy Rossi - 

The Wall Street Journal printed an incredible editorial which explains how President Trump and Sweden got it right about Covid 19 and most of the world got it wrong. 4,800 scientific and medical experts have signed a proclamation stating that we must learn to live with Covid 19 and stop the shutdowns and stop keeping kids out of school because that is causing massive and unnecessary pain, suffering, and deaths. Instead we should use a “Focused Protection Program” which is essentially what Sweden has done which focuses on isolating and protecting the elderly who are most vulnerable and let healthy people under 65 get back to business or school.

Di Leo: Whose Year Is It?

By John F Di Leo - 

“This is our year!”

It’s a declaration of confidence, or of hope, or of determination.  A declaration known to people in many walks of life, from private to public.

Agents say it to actors and singers, as the Oscar, Emmy, and CMA nominations come out. “They’ve passed you over before, but this is our year!”

Coaches say it to sports teams, to inspire their players before the season opener. “Last year was lousy, but look at the schedule, look at the opposition, look at our great starters! This is our year!”

Families say it to each other on New Year’s Eve  – especially after a year that saw them lose a job, or a business, or a friend. “Last year was lousy, but it’s all looking up now.  This is our year!”

And just as it reflects everything else in this life, the world of politics reflects this too.

Jeanne Ives Discusses US House Race with Mark Levin

On Monday, US House Candidate Jeanne Ives (IL-06) joined Mark Levin to discuss her race for the US House and the issues impacting the 2020 election in Illinois.

Listen HERE