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• Outside the Beltway: Luaus in Illinois? Sure, When Pork Is What’s for Dinner!

  Posted February 10th, 2010 at 2:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 3 comments

  $1,100 for Hawaiian party props and luaus? $78,066 to promote quail? $6,500 for a 4,000-gallon live bass fish tank? $10,000 for a Batman party? $353,165 to fund car racing?Congratulations, Illinoisans, you’re funding all this and more with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, courtesy of your state government in Springfield. More

• Gitmo 2.0: Obama Skips a Step

  Posted December 15th, 2009 at 5:15pm in Protect America with 14 comments

  The Obama Administration announced today that it will move one hundred Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in rural Illinois. This move is considered a step forward in Obama’s campaign promise to shutdown the Gitmo facility. By doing so, however, Obama is skipping a critical step in this process—the creation of a long-term detainment framework [...] More

• Outside the Beltway: California’s Nightmare the Future for Other States?

  Posted November 12th, 2009 at 5:06pm in Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities with 21 comments

  The budget shortfalls, plunging revenue, and economic woes plaguing near-broke California could foretell the future of other cash-strapped states. A new study by The Pew Center on the States found that the economic pressures that pushed California to the brink of a total economic meltdown are also found in nine other states across the country, all [...] More

• Profiles In Conservatism: Aaron Schock

  Posted March 6th, 2009 at 9:01am in Ongoing Priorities with 19 comments

  NAME: Aaron Schock OCCUPATION: Member of Congress, 18th District of Illinois HOMETOWN: Peoria, Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock was elected in 2008 and is currently the youngest member of Congress. A title Schock is all too familiar with. In 2001, Schock was elected to the Peoria Public Schools District 150 school board at age 19, making him the youngest [...] More