Ron Paul: Bankruptcy is Economic Stimulus

Ron Paul’s column Texas Straight Talk this week does a great job of describing the problems with President Obama’s dangerous spending proposals.  Our country is going bankrupt, and unless we have spending restraint, we have are going to have further problems. Bankruptcy is Economic Stimulus by:  Ron Paul March 23, 2009 The distraction on Capitol [...]

Will County Young Republicans March Social Night

Will County Young Republicans March Social Night

The date/time/location for our the March social night of the Will County Young Republicans has been confirmed. What:  Will County Young Republicans March Social Night. Where:  Post Game Pub & Sedona Grill, 9630 Willow Ln, Mokena, IL  When:  Wednesday, March 25th at 7:30pm I am co-hosting this event with our Chairwoman, Gretchen Fritz. You can find [...]

Technology, Politics and the Republican Party (Part One)

(This is a first in a series of introductory articles I will be writing about technology and politics.  These articles are intended to be introductory) The Republican Party is falling behind in the utilization of technology.  Much of the force behind President Obama’s insurgent primary campaign and subsequent general election victory was a result of [...]

Let’s Present Our Own Plan

If you follow Republican politics, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Jonathon Krohn, the 13 year old who brought down the house at CPAC and has written a book called “Define Conservatism.”  While it remains to be seen what will happen with Jonathon, one fact is certain:  we need to get back to his definition of conservatism.  [...]

Burris Consultant: ‘Need To Do Some Things for the Governor”

Looks like disgraced Senator Roland Burris wasn’t truthful with the people of Illinois after all… On the same December day then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Roland Burris to fill President Obama’s U.S. Senate vacancy, Burris’ right-hand political man, Fred Lebed, phoned an associate and told him, “We’ll have to do some things for the governor.” That’s [...]

Growing Chorus for Roland Burris to Resign

Things are getting bad for Roland Burris. After changing his story regarding the contact he had with former Governor Rod Blagojevich from “no discussion” to “Robert Blagojevich asked me if I would raise $10,000,” then to “I tried to raise the money for Blagojevich but I failed,” it is clear that Roland Burris has betrayed [...]

Burris May Not Have Committed Perjury, But He’s a Liar

The lies of Roland Burris are getting major media play.  From Mark Brown, writing in the Sun-Times today: I’ll leave it to the proper investigative bodies to decide whether Roland Burris committed perjury last month in testimony before the Illinois House impeachment committee. From a strict legal perspective, maybe he didn’t. But I’ll tell you [...]

A Roundup of Comments on the Republican Party Tech Summit

On Feburary 13th, newly minted Chairman Michael Steele brought together activists for a GOP Tech Summit.  It’s long overdue — we were beaten badly in the technological realm in the last election, and if we are going to be competitive moving forward, we need to be able to be effective at using technology for activism [...]

An Open Letter to President Obama

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama. Re: 02/09/09 Press conference / Stimulus package President Obama, In keeping with your call for civility in politics, I am going to write some feelings, in a civil manner, in response to your press conference yesterday. First, I must say that you’ve done a wonderful job of creating [...]

Taxpayers Now On the Hook for $9.7 Trillion

From Bloomberg News… Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages. The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent [...]