Don’t take state’s corruption for granted

by Fran Eaton,  Southtown Star
Living in one of th e nation’s most politically active states has its good and bad aspects.
Although considered “flyover country” by New Yorkers, DCers and LAers, Illinois political sagas are some of the most scandalous and enticing. That’s good for political junkies and investigative journalists.
But after decades of revelations, from avoiding [...]

Will bringing Gitmo to Illinois bring ‘home’ the war on terror?

By Fran Eaton,  published first @ SouthtownStar.com
All set to rant about our U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Gov. Pat Quinn pushing to bring Gitmo prisoners to western Illinois, I was pulled away by a demanding 3-year-old needing help with a project she was doing at the table across from me.
“Nana,” she said. “I need [...]

‘The Chicago Way’ is Obama’s Way

by Fran Eaton, first published @ Southtown Star
It was in the 1987 movie “The Untouchables” that we learned first about “The Chicago Way.” Overall, the gist is that when someone’s done something wrong, the victim retaliates with something slightly worse.
“The Chicago Way” seems to be the Obama administration’s modus operandi.
The administration is teaching “The Chicago [...]

Home health care workers face union pressure

By Fran Eaton, first published @ Southtown Star
Next Monday morning, ballots will be counted to determine whether Illinois families that care for severely disabled family members in their homes and receive financial assistance from the state will become union members.
In June, Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order that had been left on his desk [...]

ACORN maneuvers onto key federal financial board

by Fran Eaton, Illinois Review.com
Last week, in the midst of the ACORN scandals nationwide, the Dems not only ignored the allegations about giving illegal tax counsel and mortgage information to a pretend pimp and prostitute, they elevated ACORN. Indeed, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) found a way to include ACORN reps on a financial oversight board, [...]

Regarding Obama: ‘We told you so’

By Fran Eaton
As a longtime conservative activist in Illinois, I teeter between laughing out loud and grieving deep inside when prominent national pundits discover and disclose just how deeply Barack Obama’s leftist ideology is ingrained now that it is affecting national policy.
Why they’re shocked and appalled how his policies are enlarging government control, sweeping away [...]

“It’s Not Easy Being Right in Chicago” ad campaign launched

by Fran Eaton
Young Republican conservatives are charging back in Barack Obama’s hometown, determined to coax timid Republicans out of their hiding places and join up to push back on Chicago’s infamous corrupt, liberal Democratic control. The Chicago Young Republicans launched a month-long membership drive  for June 2009 with a first-class PR campaign, featuring ads on the heavily-traveled Chicago Transit [...]

The misplaced guilt about waterboarding

A Chicago area talk show host declared to the world Friday that waterboarding is “absolutely torture” after putting himself through the experience while on the air and videotaped for posterity.
WLS AM 890’s Mancow Muller said he wouldn’t have voluntarily undergone the waterboarding in the Chicago radio station had he known it was so bad.  “I [...]

Obama offers reason for right to celebrate, too

by Fran Eaton, published first at Sun-Times’ Southtown Star
The brassy, boisterous, “We won, you didn’t” theme already has been leading the parade for this week’s leftist celebration. Few things are more annoying in life than ungracious victors.
One hundred days into the Bush administration, those same leftists used their bully pulpits to pummel our enthusiasm with [...]

We should remain wary of universal health care

Although the United States spends almost $2.2 trillion or $7,421 per person each year on health care, it remains at the top of Americans’ concerns. As the nation’s unemployment nears the 10 percent level, criticism of the current national employer-based health care system is reaching new heights.

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