Judging Clarity
by John Ackermann  At a recent local candidate forum, a local judicial candidate grabbed my attention with his stump speech. For those of you not familiar with that term, stump speech came about from the political campaigns of the 18th and early 19th centuries before technology aloud for the broadcast of candidates’ speeches. At that time, candidates would go from town to town repeating the same speech and in order to been seen and heard by all, they would simply pull over a barrel, or stand on a large rock, or in many cases find the nearest stump to stand on to address the crowds. Thus, today whenever we hear a candidate find

Berkowitz Interviews 10th CD GOP candidate Bob Dold
During a recent interview, Public Affairs Jeff Berkowitz asked 10th CD Republican Bob Dold what he would have done had he been in Congress during the bailout vote ... Jeff Berkowitz: …if you had been there [in Congress]… in the Fall of 2008 when President Bush, Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chief Bernanke recommended the 700 billion dollar bailout, do you think you would have voted to support that?Bob Dold [Kenilworth], 10th Cong. District Republican Primary candidate: That’s a great question, Jeff, and I think there certainly needed to be some stuff done for the—it’s tough for me to be the you know, I gues

Giannoulias follows Andrzejewski's example and opens tax returns
Even though they're from two different political parties and running for two different statewide offices, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, State Treasurer Alexi GIannoulias is the only statewide candidate that's followed Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrezjewski's example of making his income tax returns available for media scrutiny.  Today's Chicago Tribune says almost all of Giannoulias' personal wealth has come from his family

An inconvenient truth

The War on Christmas vs. the War on Thanksgiving
by Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire: Throughout history there exists an ongoing battle over what cultures celebrate and why. In recent American history the battle lines are often described as pro and anti-Christian. America once was content in allowing civil authorities to select and define its holidays. With the increasing influence of groups which use the courts to challenge any comingling of religion and the function of government, the definition of the some of the nation's holidays have become a war zone. And while most Americans think of Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas as Christian holidays