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Cast Your Vote

February 2, 2010

I got up and went to my polling place this morning on Oak Park, Illinois, and cast my votes in the Republican Primary. I used one of the newer “computer” voting machines. I was voter #1 on my machine, in my precinct. It felt good.
I urge you to go to your polling place and cast [...]

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Cisco is back on WLS

January 13, 2010

Fellow Oak Parker and Calvary Memorial Church attender Cisco Cotto was recently employed at WIND 560 AM Talk Radio, where I would listen to him on the John and Cisco show in the mornings. Now he is back at WLS 890 with Roe Conn in the afternoons from 2-6 PM. He was at WLS in [...]

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Conservative Economic and Political Resources

December 8, 2009

A friend recently asked me to put together some resources on the conservative economic and political worldview (especially from an evangelical Christian perspective), so that he could become better informed on this viewpoint. I decided to turn my research and information gathering into a blog post so that others might benefit from it as [...]

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Tata Jesus is Bangala!

January 3, 2009

I’ve just finished reading “The Poisonwood Bible” a novel by Barbara Kingsolver about the Price family who go to the Belgian Congo in the late 1950’s as Baptist missionaries. It’s a pretty depressing story based upon the experiences of Nathan Price’s wife and four daughters… who rotate telling their story in each chapter of the [...]

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Thank You, Peter Fitzgerald!

December 9, 2008

One of the best things that has happened in Illinois politics in recent history was the election of Peter Fitzgerald to the US Senate in 1998, defeating the Democrat incumbent Carol Mosley Braun.
Peter was an Illinois GOP political outsider who bucked the GOP party line on many issues as a State Senator member of the [...]

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McDonald’s Opposes “Employee Free Choice Act” supported by Obama

December 9, 2008

I read an interesting article in Crain’s Chicago Business yesterday that talked about how McDonald’s USA is urging their franchise owner-operators to call their representatives to oppose the so called “Employee Free Choice Act” currently being considered in Congress.
McDonald’s USA President Don Thompson (photo left) warns the owner-operators of the “gravity of the issue” and [...]

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How Christianity Shaped the West

December 6, 2008

The November issue of Imprimis, the monthly newsletter of Hillsdale College, features an article adapted from a speech delivered by Dinesh D’Souza. Dinesh is a conservative author, thinker and speaker who worked as a policy analyst in the Reagan White House. His articles currently appear in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic [...]

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How Obama Got Elected?

November 25, 2008

I read an email early this morning that mentioned this website in it.
You might want to check it out at HowObamaGotElected.com. There is a video there that has been viewed over 1.4 M times on YouTube to watch, then links to all the data and backup on the video including:

A video of John Ziegler (the [...]

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OK! – So, Now What?

November 6, 2008

As you know if you read this blog, I was not a supporter of Barack Obama. However, he won fair and square and will become the next President of the United States of America. I admire him, and wish him well. I will pray for him and support him as far as my conscience will [...]

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Barack Obama and Socialism

October 30, 2008

Socialism: “A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor.”
Barack Obama keeps saying his economic policies are not socialistic. However, in this 2001 radio interview broadcast on Chicago’s WBEZ public radio station, it sure sounds like a duck, [...]

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