At least 6 dead, dozens hurt in Highland Park July Fourth parade shooting. We pray for the people and their families. Please note that Illinois has some very strict gun laws, which again, didn’t work. Meanwhile, as of July 4th, Chicago proper has had 12 people shot and killed, and 57 people wounded, which will be ignored by the MSM. **Current count is 6 8 dead + 24 wounded**
Six people are dead and dozens injured in a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park on Monday, authorities said.
Police said the gunman was still on the loose after he opened fire with a rifle from the roof of a building overlooking the parade route shortly after 10 a.m.
The shooter, who police warned is still “armed and dangerous”, is described as a white male with dark hair, aged 18 to 20 years. He is wearing a blue or white t-shirt, police said.
Sen. Mark Kirk: Obama’s Supreme Court pick deserves fair hearing in Senate. Here’s a new target. When he loses reelection he may be one cog in getting the Democrats a Senate majority. Way to go Republicans.
Hillary Gets STUNNING News About The Illinois Ballots… This May Cost Her The Race. Come on now it’s Illinois. Those defective registrants are merely dead people who in Illinois are not only allowed, but encouraged to vote.
Two Veterans Perform Citizens Arrest on Entire County Board, They Laugh Until Sheriff Shows Up. Confucius say veterans who laugh last laugh best. Awesome.
An Illinois law that says you must show valid photo ID to purchase a gun is causing problems for the Amish because their religion prohibits them from having their photos taken.
Illinois may call itself The Land of Lincoln, but old Abe would be turning over in his grave if he saw this story.
An Illinois law that says you must show valid photo ID to purchase a gun is causing problems for the Amish because their religion prohibits them from having their photos taken.
The Amish can vote without photo ID, but they can't buy guns
NBC Chicago has the details:
Up till now, the state had allowed them to obtain an FOID card without a photo, as is required of every other gun owner. But last month, the state police director reversed that policy, and said photos would be required of every gun owner, Amish or not.
The sheriff of Douglas County, considered to be the heart of Illinois’ Amish country, said many of them are rifle hunters to bring home food. If the new policy is enforced, many Amish would find themselves facing a tough choice – lose that source of food and protection, or violate their religious teachings.
The issue is complicated even further by the state attorney general recently ruling that FOID information can be made public. The Amish lead sequestered lives and strive to keep society at large out of their affairs. The possibility of making their photos public would make the whole prospect doubly offensive.
Irony alert: The same Democrats who believe the Amish should be forced to violate their religion in order to purchase guns feel just as strongly that photo IDs shouldn’t be required in order to vote. They voted down a law proposed by Republicans in 2008 that would have made voter photo IDs necessary.
An attempt to require Illinois voters to show identification before casting a ballot was rejected Thursday by Democratic lawmakers.
The proposal would have required an official ID in order to get a ballot. Those who didn’t comply could cast provisional votes that would be counted so long as the voter could produce an ID within 10 days.
State Rep. David Reis, a downstate Willow Hill Republican, modeled the Illinois proposal after an Indiana law recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Supporters said in a day and age in which ID is required with so many daily activities, it’s not out of line to add voting to the list.
“We have to prove who we are to get in this building,” state Rep. Tim Schmitz, a Batavia Republican, said of working in the Capitol. “At some point we have to take responsibility for who we are.”
Unfortunately, Rep. Schmitz, with Democrats in power that point is when you want a gun, not when you want to vote.
In 2008, Candidate Obama held a campaign rally at Illinois’ Old State Capitol to announce Joe Biden as his running mate. Now they are stiffing the city for the cost of security.
Springfield mayor Frank Edwards is pissed off. Back in August 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama held a campaign rally at Illinois’ Old State Capitol to announce Joe Biden as his running mate. Now the deadbeat and the running mate are stiffing the city for the cost of security.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden pause for a moment to think about the money they owe Springfield, Illinois
St. Louis Today has the details of the mayor’s debt threat:
Edwards has written President Barack Obama seeking the balance of the bill the city ran up for police when the then-candidate visited in 2008 to announce his running mate.
The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports that the city submitted a bill for $68,139. It’s still owed $55,457.
The interim mayor says there appears to be confusion about whether the Secret Service or the White House owes the money.
Edwards wrote that “sometimes only the executive himself can cut through such inter-departmental differences of opinion.”
He says he’s not trying to embarrass anyone, but times are tight.
If President Obama can’t scrape together enough cash to pay this bill, perhaps he should handle it the same way he pays every other bill:
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
Over 35 counties in Illinois missed the deadline to mail military ballots to our soldiers defending America. But in Chicago, county election officials have taken special steps to ensure that no inmates at the Cook County Jail are unable to cast a ballot.
The Chicago Board of Elections hand delivers ballots to the jail. They don’t even wait for the inmates to apply – they bring the applications with the ballots! Over 2,600 inmates have cast ballots so far – strikingly similiar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not recieve a ballot for the Nov 2 election.
Less than 24 hours after the Illinois primary, the National Republican Senate Committee released a commercial that connects Democratic Senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias to Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, and Chicago mobsters.
Less than 24 hours after the Illinois primary, the National Republican Senate Committee released a commercial that connects Democratic Senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias to Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, and Chicago mobsters.
Did they hire someone new at the NRSC? Or did one of the existing geniuses finally grow a set?
it turns out that the detainees would rather stay in Guantanamo than be transferred to President Obama’s preferred prison in Illinois.
Gitmo detainees praying to Allah that they don't get transferred to Illinois
Remember Guantanamo? That hideous American Gulag hidden away in Cuba so we could torture prisoners using unimaginably cruel techniques far from the prying eyes of noble, crusading newsmen?
Now it turns out that the detainees would rather stay there than be transferred to President Obama’s preferred prison in Illinois.
Michael Isikoff reports in Newsweek:
But the final irony is that many of the detainees may not even want to be transferred to Thomson and could conceivably even raise their own legal roadblocks to allow them to stay at Gitmo.
Falkoff notes that many of his clients, while they clearly want to go home, are at least being held under Geneva Convention conditions in Guantánamo. At Thomson, he notes, the plans call for them to be thrown into the equivalent of a “supermax” security prison under near-lockdown conditions.
“As far as our clients are concerned, it’s probably preferable for them to remain at Guantánamo,” he says.
Waterboarding, apparently, is one thing, but going to Illinois is something else.
As if determined to prove that there’s absolutely nothing into which they won’t stick their collective (and collectivist) noses, the Illinois Senate voted 51-4 last week to slap controls on bowling shoes.
Video: Barack Obama throws consecutive gutter balls during the presidential campaign. Blame it on the shoes.
According to the Springfield State Journal-Register, “The measure would require alley owners to clearly place signs near entrances and exits warning that bowling shoes are ‘specialized footwear’ meant only to be worn inside the alley. Users are cautioned that they could slip or stumble if they wear the shoes outside in rain, snow or other debris and then come back in.”
Senator Donne Trotter (D-Chicago) denied a suggestion by Senator Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) that he wanted bowlers to wear helmets (earlier this year, senators voted down another Trotter bill that would have mandated helmets for motorcycle riders).
Keep one thing in mind: when bowling shoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have bowling shoes.
Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.
Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.
First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.
We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.
This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
