“I Am Not A Crook” -Oh Yes You Were Over forty years ago the nation was shaken by allegations that the Watergate complex was broken into and the trail led back to the President of the United States, Richard Nixon. From the Washington Post 1973: Declaring that “I am not…

Corporate Deserters ? In the next few weeks, the Walgreens drug store chain may decide to pick up their corporation from its Illinois roots and head off to another country and set up headquarters. President Obama referred to them as corporate deserters? Are they? Walgreens is considering a merger with Alliance-Boots, a company from Switzerland,…

      Now Starring as Robin Hood-  Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a measure to put a non-binding referendum on the fall ballot asking voters whether millionaires should be taxed at a higher rate. I know we are looking for avenues to put money into the coffers…

     National Security is Threated By Not Filling Ambassadorships   Currently, more than 40 U.S. embassies around the world are without ambassadors, threatening national security, according to Seattle  Times guest columnists Claudia Kennedy and Stephen A. Cheney. National security should never be a partisan issue. During our years of service, we worked with diplomats appointed…

          The United States: Forgetting What History Can Teach Us   Think back to your U. S. History class and think about what you learn about the Sedition Act. I think you just smiled and told me you don’t remember anything about it or just that you know it deals with…

Transgenders Create New Questions   What decides a person’s gender? For that matter, who gets to decide? This, along with a few other problems, have emerged for college officials as a growing number of transgender students are attempting to force the question. A growing number of openly transgender students have forced schools around the country…