Redlining Miguel Estrada
To many liberal Democrats, it’s the height of racism for Republicans to oppose the Supreme Court nomination of likely pro-abort Catholic Sonia Sotomayor. But few remember the Dems’ lynching of the first prominent Latino named to a high judicial post-a pro-life Catholic.
He was-and is-Miguel Angel Estrada Castanada, foreshortened by Hispanic custom and known as Miguel Estrada. In 2001, at age 40, he was nominated by George W. Bush to the District of Columbia’s prestigious Court of Appeals, the first Hispanic to be named to this post. Because his …

I am one of the Republicans who thinks it’s a good idea to change the way the Republican State Central Committee (SCC) is chosen. I am for the direct election of members. I have also called my State Rep and Senator and told them to vote against SB600. I know I just said I was for the direct election of SCC members but not if it’s pushed on the GOP by the Democrats in the General Assembly.
Why do you think Democrats are taking time to push this legislation when they …

This is an open letter to Andy McKenna and the GOP leadership. Please stop asking for a special election. Senator Burris was just put into place after the Democrats publicly and openly screwed up and you want to help them get rid of their problems. We don’t need to give the Democratic leadership, including new Governor Quinn, cover to fix what they did. There will be an election for Burris’s seat! It’s the elections of 2010. We’re in that cycle now; let the voters have their chance to show their …

Yesterday was the last day of the George Bush Presidency, and it put into a nutshell why I am a proud Republican. What happened? Nothing! Oh yea Barack Obama was sworn in and there was an official change in administrations but otherwise nothing. That’s right, not a single terrorist, sleazy millionaire or corrupt government official was given a Presidential pardon. Wasn’t that refreshing? Remember when Bill Clinton left office? For the last few days of the Clinton Presidency we were bombarded with pardons, 140 of them on January 20th alone.
Here …

So the Governor installs Roland Burris into the Senate seat vacated by Obama. I thought Harry Reid wouldn’t seat anyone appointed by Governor Blagojevich? What does or will Blago get for this appointment? What about someone turning down the heat?
Does anyone think that the General Assembly might slow down it’s impeachment process now? Do anyone think the Democratic leadership will now say that the proper thing to do is to wait until the US Attorney brings his case so that Blagojevich or his henchman’s trials won’t be tainted?
Will naming Burris …

Governor Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff John Harris were arrested this week for allegedly attempting to sell President Elect Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. This started a media and political frenzy to rid this state of this corrupt man by any means possable! There is a call from both the Democrat and Republican leadership for a special session to have Governor Blagojevich’s power to appoint a sucsessor removed at once. The Attorney General has gone in front of the Supream court of Illinois and asked …

A little more than a month ago in this very paper I wrote that it was time for the GOP to go after the Democrats on the energy crisis that has been brought about by Democrat policies. If you notice every Democrat in a marginally competitive district has now coined a new term, “the failed Bush and so and so energy policy” depending on who they are running against.
Why are they doing this? Because energy prices, more notably gas prices are the biggest issues in this election. They …

I have been watching the news and the reports on how high the gas
prices are. All the networks followed the same pattern in their coverage. The report shows prices at $6.00 a gallon and higher, they interview people who say that they can’t handle the prices that it is now a choice of gas in their car or food on the table.
They cut to various government and Wall Street experts who opine on how high the prices might go and then attempt to explain why. It’s China and …

For years I have heard that the Democrats are better than the Republicans at the art of politics and everyday the Republicans show how right that old axiom is. Ever since George W became president we have heard that the economy was in horrible shape. It’s been easy for the Democrats to stretch the truth about the economy or the war in Iraq with the help of the mainstream media. They did it during the general election of 2000 pretending that the economy was still humming along …

The decision of conservative, pro-life constitutional scholar Doug Kmiec, a friend of mine, to switch from having co-headed the Romney presidential campaign’s Committee on the Courts and Constitution to announce his support of Barack Obama for president is…well, how to I say it…as if Ed Meese were to quit the Heritage Foundation to accept appointment to the Herbert Marcuse Chair at Berkeley to co-teach “The Dialectics of Liberation” with Angela Davis. No other analogy will fit since I have dealt with authenticist Catholic Kmiec over the years …