Schaumburg Drive-By This week’s drive-by shooting in Schaumburg, a relatively quiet suburb Northwest of Chicago should be a clarion call for tougher sentencing for handgun violence. What should come with a conviction of “the unlawful discharge of...

The Illinois primary election has all but concluded and still there is not a declared victor in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor. As provisional and absentee ballots are fully counted, a winner between State Senator Bill Brady and...

The State of Illinois has almost deeper problems than the good old USA. We are a week away from the GOP primary on February 2, 2010. As the euphoria wears off from the Senator-elect, Scott Brown, victory in Massachusetts, the Illinois GOP has some huge...

December’s jobs report was not good. With the unemployment rate still stagnate at 10%, the economy is still sputtering. A number of labor economists point to the real unemployment rate sitting at 17% to 20% when you include discouraged workers and...

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Michael Steele, the GOP Party Chairman. His recent pronouncements that it is unlikely that the Republicans will pick up enough seats to gain control of the US House of Representatives, is mind boggling....