Stephanie Soechtig, of the Katie Couric-hosted documentary about guns in America (Under The Gun), joined Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s Morning Answer. Listen now to the interview that turned into a rhetorical shootout. http://upstream-ideas.com/upstream-ideas/ideas/under-the-gun-directors-anti-2a-agitprop-under-the-gun-on-chicagos-morning-answer?utm_source=Newsleter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Under%20The%20Gun Transcript Dan Proft: Dan and Amy, and I...
Congress Debates Mandatory Selective Service Registration for Women Written By Laurie Higgins  Some may remember the ecstatic press accounts of the first two women, Capt.Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, to make it through the grueling Army Ranger School. Well, here’s what former...
ALLOWING MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY MUST BE PRIORITY FOR ILLINOIS MARK GLENNON  June 7, 2016 OPINION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnGExrTcRcs In the dozens of articles you probably read in the last few months about our fiscal crisis, what’s the universal omission? A solution. No analyst, officeholder or commentator has...
Regularly scheduled spring session ended on May 31st, but the State of Illinois remains in an unprecedented financial situation. We return to Springfield this Wednesday. Still No Budget         As I’m sure you know by now Speaker Madigan attempted...
Property taxes outstrip Texans’ incomes By Kenric Ward  /   May 30, 2016  /   News  /   10 Comments           Senate Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief WIDENING GAP: Increases in local property taxes are more than...
    Support the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival in Bolingbrook on Saturday, June 18, 2016!   Juneteenth celebrates the 151st anniversary of the date in 1865 on which the Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all remaining slaves.   The Will County Republican Central...
We agree to let this happen with our silence   The President according to article 2 Section 2 of the Constitution does not have the authority to make LAW. Making laws is reserved to the Congress. Likewise Article 3 does not give...
Another 41 Muslim “Refugees” in U.S. Arrested on Jihad Terror Charges May 27, 2016 by Clyde http://gopthedailydose.com/ By Pam Geller: Further proof of what my colleagues and I have warned of for months. There have already been jihadis discovered among the refugees. There...
On a single day in 2011, Illinois lawmakers introduced and passed the largest tax hike in modern state history in a matter of hours. And on May 25, 2016, House Democrats introduced and passed a 500-page budget billin 90 minutes. Something...
Heritage Scholar a Threat to Safety on Stanford Campus? Stanford’s Acting Unlawfully. Andrew Kloster  Heritage’s Ryan T. Anderson speaks on marriage at  Boston College last year. Photo: The Heights Ryan T. Anderson talks a lot about marriage. Heritage’s William E. Simon fellow...

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