A May Day Protest Conservatives Could Be Proud Of And Join

Marco Rubio SC A May Day protest conservatives could be proud of and join

Long menacing bolts of lightning flashed, and noisy rumbles of thunder rolled; but patriots unfurled the Gadsen flag above the Star of David, right next to a large beautiful American flag at the May Day Protest against Marco Rubio and his Gang of Eight’s cruel immigration bill.

No one does a thunderstorm like Florida does, and she was in her glory Wednesday night.  I haven’t gotten that soaked, soaked to my skin, since I canoed the Des Plaines River in Illinois many years ago with a supervisor from the Big House in Joliet.  Between rain drops, he told me about the rough  time prison doctors were having getting the colostomy bags in the sides of gay prisoners because their nether regions were not accepting the equipment,  to put it mildly.  So here I was along with many patriots standing in drenching rain with our signs unfurled, telling Marco Rubio and his 854 page amnesty bill that it was dead in our waters!

One forty-year-old man who had been out of work for over three years stuck a sign in the parkway that said “Fire Obama.”  He told me he drove down over 3 1/2 hours from Tampa with his very young daughter because “this is the only way I can get Rubio to listen to me.”  The young man, clearly an able-bodied young American male who wanted and needed to work, said he had tried for weeks to get our erstwhile Florida Senator to speak to him.  To no avail!  Finally, one female clerk in Rubio’s office said “The Senator will not speak to you because he’s too busy.”  So the earnest White male made the drive, stood hours in the drenching Florida rain, and held on high his sign that told Rubio “No Amnesty for Illegals.”  Another young man of like age said he’d been out of work in the construction industry for over four years because “construction companies hire illegals.”

As a media type, I particularly was aghast at the complete lack of any big media trucks at the Rubio anti-immigration protest.  I saw not one media vehicle, even though these miserable excuses for journalists had at least three days advance notice.  Only a portable cameraman and reporter were apparent, and they may have been our local and unbiased YourVoiceWeekly.com paper that had emailed me that they were going to show up.

So as a recent CiR commenter said so presciently, “I will Never vote for another Rino.” I have to agree. I know our American males will get us through the Rino/Democrat attempt to flood America with millions of illegal immigrants.  I saw strength, resolve, determination, and resilience on May Day. Yes we can; we will win this thing!

“Common Core” The Marxist Brainwashing Of America’s Schoolchildren

Karl Marx SC “Common Core” the Marxist brainwashing of America’s schoolchildren

Vlad the Impaler must be dancing in his grave as the beast known as the Federal Education Department makes the United States into Transylvania West by turning our public school system into its own, blood-sucking, Communist training camp! Orwellian standards, end runs around local school boards, and ruination of states’ rights are all part of the Obama administration’s dangerous Common Core initiative to strip our land of freedom.  Dr. Alison Rampersad, a Co-Chair of Eye on U.S. Education, gave a Florida workshop a frightening heads up on what really is in Common Core, slated to be a done deal within this year.  And what is most frightening is that teachers, parents, educators, and legislators themselves don’t know what they are getting our children into.

Three huge stoppers Common Core is throwing up in front of our school children in this K-12 disaster include: 1. Dumbing down of all levels of America’s public school system;  2.  Taking away the rights of states to individually design, administer, and control their own schools;  3. Setting up a 400 point “Data Mining” paradigm that will encode for the federal government a tracking system for each child.  Such data will include parental income, babysitters, bus stops, and even political affiliations of Democrat or Republican/family voting patterns!

“This will change the way students and teachers interact in the classroom and how the education system works in America,” Rampersad warned Floridians.  A crazy re-do of the already new, fuzzy math will require students to count in tens, prompting one math expert to opine that this will never work.  Parents will not be allowed to enter the schools, read their child’s textbooks (which have to be left at school), and would not have any local school board to meet.  Technical manuals, especially relating to the R rating of attic insulations and the Ben Bernanke two step of rules governing our financial systems, will become 70% of what our students will be reading.  The beloved classics of literature that teach moral truths, right from wrong, responsible citizenship, and the value of liberty are already being deconstructed along with the canon of early American history and literature.

Stephanie Austin, an advocate of explaining the dangers of wireless radiation, called the workshop audience’s attention to what is known as commercial routers of the WiFi systems as each child must use a wireless tablet.  She handed out the public warning about WiFi in schools, issued by the American Academy of Environmental Medicine: “Safer technology, such as use of hard-wiring, is strongly recommended in schools.”

As the No Common Core workshop wore on, cries of Communism, Socialism, and Marxism could be heard from participants just learning about the underlying goals of the program.  Loyal United States citizens in every one of our 50 states are being urged to call their state legislators and governor to deny Common Core’s infestation of our public schools by the Federal Education Beast.

 

University Emphasis On Race Not Contributing To The Economy?

Bill Ayers University emphasis on race not contributing to the economy?

The hypocrisy of American academia centers on a craving for donated, capitalist dollars but with no caveats. The miserable state of university and college intellectual achievements runs parallel with the stream of leftist ideology that began back in the 60s, interestingly enough the years when the Bill Ayers/Weatherman group began its reign of in-country terror.

When philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein got the drift of how Bowdoin College President Barry Mills felt about the evils of conservatism, the wealthy realist took action. ”Diversity of ideas at all levels of the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational mission,” he said as he commissioned the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to research the Maine colleges’ real diversity composition.  “There’s the obsession with race, class, gender and sexuality as the essential forces of history and markers of political identity,” plus the dedication of sustainability of the planet to keep it safe from capitalism.  And Klingenstein’s criticism of Bowdoin’s phony dedication to diversity proved correct as the NAS research showed the “college has no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation,” but only courses centered on race, class, gender, or sexuality.

The political imbalance of moving the academic world from one of a collegiate education into one of identity politics and liberal progressivism is ruining America’s very foundations and turning out generations of young people ill-equipped to run or to love the United States.  How ironic that the alma mater of the great American author Nathaniel Hawthorne would turn away from honoring the greatness of the very country he said no longer needed to look to Europe for intellectual inspiration. Just consider the audacity of Northwestern University hiring Bernardine Dohrn for its law school to instruct in Family Law or the hiring by the University of Illinois (Chicago) of her husband Bill Ayers to teach much the same subject.  Having authored his new progressive educational theories, Ayers initiated the Hyde Park salon that launched Barack Obama’s anti-capitalist, anti-American political career in order to fundamentally change this great nation.  And that, they are doing.  What kind of example is being given to students who take a course from a woman who, even though she received a law degree from the University of Chicago in l967, was refused admission to the NY Bar?

When the more balanced president of the University of Illinois saw fit not to grant Ayers the Emeritus distinction, the Illini faculty rose up in angst; and now this wise man has been replaced with a left-coast feminist who presided over this past spring’s Sex Week, which paid homage to the Big Orgasm!

Unless parents and big donors unite to stop what is going on across our nation in the name of what is called a university education, we can give up on America once again being called the world superpower.  The millions of dollars in debt being carried around by students and their parents are pitiful ransoms of our country’s heritage, brave founders, and brilliant founding documents! The barely four or five conservative faculty members plus the 100% faculty donation to President Obama at Bowdoin College is a microcosm of America’s failed university system nationwide.

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Why Are We Training Russian Troops In The US?

Are America’s treasured National Parks being co-opted by the New World Order under the guise of designating them World Heritage Sites, thus allowing foreign troops and United Nations agencies to take over our country in a soft coup d’etat? A blogger has photographed heavily equipped armored vehicles carrying the “Special Response Team” logo in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Heritage site in Gatlinburg, TN. (1) ”It is a deadly serious piece of equipment never before used inside the US until now,” says the blogger “Sherrie” who then adds, “The vehicles don’t come more heavily armored.”

Sherrie has put up several pictures of these in-country tanks which she said she saw on and near Interstate 75 when she was traveling back roads near Winchester, Richmond, KY, and lists Rt. # 627 as an area of interest. “This spot is (around) the US Army Chemical Depot” which covers 14,000 acres in Kentucky backwoods,” the blogger says on the video which the Liberty web site is putting up for general viewing. She mentions chemical weapons involving 523 tons of nerve agents and shows aerial photography of train tracks going up to several buildings in this compound! “I’m not sure what they are,” she says, positing the notion of a possible FEMA camp in the Kentucky woods.

Now in addition to sighting of MRAP vehicles, “Sherrie” tells readers that “Russians were stopping and questioning people in the Gatlinburg, Smoky Mountain Parks region.” She quotes a high ranking individual in a local area state militia organization who she says she trusts as being truthful. The scenario developed when these apparently foreign troops wearing DHS uniforms with the Eagle insignia tried to enter Tennessee from Kentucky. “They were NOT Americans. . .appeared to be Russian or Eastern European!”

The Tennessee State Guard is being formulated as part of the 22 state Governors’ Militia Organization of volunteers which answers only to the Governors, not to the Federal government. (2) What has developed is the confiscation of equipment belong to National Guard Units nationwide. Trucks and other equipment sent to Iraq are not being replaced or returned to the states by the federal government because it is “too expensive” to transport the vehicles and equipment back into the country. This has prompted 22 governors to form State Militia Units paid for by the states and thus kept out of the reach of the federal government. (2)

Has the Division of Homeland Security partnered with the United Nations One World military apparatus with a sleight of hand operation known as World Heritage Site designation? The observant blogger lists these US treasures also as being so designated: Statue of Liberty, Everglades, Mammoth Cave, Yellowstone, Yosemite, all former National Parks. Folks, this designation and UN involvement coincides with the ten region DHS map of the United States! Has this under-the-radar give away of America already taken place, thus allowing the constitutionally prohibited onus of foreign troops being stationed on American soil? What is your Congress doing about this?

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Exposed: “Sex Week” At America’s Colleges

sex change Exposed: “Sex Week” at America’s colleges

Sex Week and Spring Break are two phenomena happening each year on America’s college campuses for which struggling parents pay hard-earned tuition dollars as alums glorify abject debauchery parading as the latest form of academia’s political correctness. The Sex Week displays at six major universities (including Yale and my alma mater, the University of Illinois, held this past February in Champaign) leave me utterly speechless.  When an undergrad degree is now criticized as being little more than an eighth grade diploma, why on earth would we support such decadence, decay, and destruction of the coming generations that will be tasked with running our country?

Scott Greer, writer for the web site Campus Reform says of the U of Illinois sex week speakers: “A residence hall at the University of Illinois has invited Annie Sprinkle, a famous  porn star from the 1970′s and 80′s, to conduct a sex education week, which is set to culminate with an “Orgasm Workshop” Thursday night.  Sprinkle was planning to show the “students” her documentary featuring interviews with orgasm experts and present herself as a “poetic homage” to the big O.”

The homosexual agenda is very popular in sex education seminars and curricula as described by authors Alan E. Sears and Craig Osten: ”Parents in Hayward, CA protested a school policy that allowed schoolteachers and staff to talk openly about their homosexual behavior with students during classroom instruction time without parental permission.”  But the law entitled “The CA Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000″ relieves schools from having to inform parents about such lesson plans to their underage children.

Required reading for every parent of college age students is the “Sex and God at Yale” book by Nathan Harden.  He gives a hard-hitting expose of political correctness and academic freedom gone horribly wrong.  “An art student received departmental approval–before the ensuing media attention alerted the public and Yale alumni–for an art project in which she claimed to have used the blood and tissue from repeated self-induced miscarriages.”  A reviewer of Harden’s book comments: “What passes for culture is the completely hookup culture, drunken parties, and occasional suicide.”  Along with naked parties for coed entertainment, topics at sex week may include golden rain, SM apparatus with techniques, grooming, and even the infamous hamster and concrete ER crisis an Illinois doctor and his assistants had to furiously work before the concrete hardened! The cutting edge science of human egg harvesting informs female students about the profits that can be had.

The reviewer of the Harden book points out that “Yale was founded for the sole purpose of spreading religious faith.”  (p. 226)

I emailed my journalism school and alumni contacts in Champaign this past week and cc’d my memo to the alumni club in Naples, FL.  Teaching college students how to have orgasms or find each other for gender-driven sex events somehow does not compete in my mind with teaching them the English composition, American Literature quotations, and the 50′s journalism that I was privileged to have been taught.

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Sheriff Joe Withstands Death Threats

Joe Arpaio 5 SC Sheriff Joe withstands death threats

Just how much more can one man take?  America’s real sheriff (the one doing what his constituents have asked him to do), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has received a threat against his life in the form of a violent online rant sent from Mexico even as he lies hospitalized with a broken left shoulder. The 80-year old Republican peace officer also faces a fall recall after he was elected to an historic sixth term in November! And Arizona is bracing for more crime resulting from the release of 300 to 500 illegal aliens into the state’s southern border area as Eric Holder and his Department of Justice ignore their sworn duty to protect American citizens threatened daily by hordes of invaders. Of course, many believe the number of released illegals will be closer to 2000, with their being back on the street having been conveniently blamed on the sequester.

An individual identified online as an American citizen and Arizona resident made the following violent threat according to Sheriff Joe’s appeal for help:  “He (Sheriff Joe) should see the color of his skin and where he comes from. . .stupid mother******. . .let’s KILL HIM.  I will kill him for FREE.  I am going to AZ to kill that a..hole!”  Now another thug has sent a message attacking the octogenarian lawman who has spent over 50 years serving his fellowman.   “Hopefully, infection will set in,” says the thug.  Just how low will this man’s opponents go in their effort to bring him down? If recall leader William James Fisher is successful in obtaining over 335,000 valid voter signatures by May 30, the Maricopa County Sheriff and his Office will have to face another political battle.

Keep in mind here that Sheriff Joe is the ONLY American law enforcement officer who answered the call of constituents to investigate the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s citizenship and the apparent forgery of the birth certificate released by the White House as “official” in 2011.  More death threats came in after the intensive investigation into birth certificate forgeries by the Cold Case Posse.  “I’m listening to my constituents; they asked me to look at it,” Arpaio says.  At least 150 lawsuits nationwide and 24 legal appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court by ordinary citizens and Americans worried about our country’s national security have been rebuffed by our judiciary, Congress, politicians, and other law enforcement entities nationwide.  Only Sheriff Joe and his Cold Case Posse investigators led by senior analyst Mike Zullo have had the fortitude to press forward against enormous odds in this crisis of Presidential Legitimacy!

The indomitable patriot sent an instant message from his hospital bed saying he is relieved the injury was to his left shoulder, not his right, so he can still operate his “Smith & Wesson and Smith Corona,” referring to his gun and his typewriter!

“I need your help now more than ever,” reads Sheriff Joe’s press release to CiR.  And we need to answer his call yet again.  You can go to www.info@reelectjoearpaio.com or write him at Sheriff Joe Arpaio Campaign, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, 100 West Washington, Suite 1900, Phoenix, AZ 85003.

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Some Seniors Display The Class And Morals Of 1960s Hippies

10.16.12 Senior Citizen 600x600 Some Seniors display the class and morals of 1960s hippies

Disgusting debasement of America’s moral and Christian standards is reaching an all-time high as reports surface that senior citizens are increasingly falling victim to various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially Herpes, Chlamydia, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea.  The idiot left-wingers of the 60′s Baby Boomer generation, now reaching what once was called the Golden Years, are making America and themselves laughing stocks with foolish, unseemly conduct bordering on sexual perversion.

By signing onto online seniors “meet and greet sites,” our drugged, defiled, and debased seniors find themselves dealing with personal medical crises unheard of before the left foisted its damaging ideology on foolish and gullible Americans!  Membership in singles dating services for Grannies and Grandpas exploded from 1 million to 2.5 million in just the last nine months; and now the three biggest love sites –Senior People Meet, Seniors Meet, and Ourtime.com–share a participation of more than four million people combined!

When I went to my first and last 55Alive meeting down here in Florida, I sat next to a portly, white haired man who boasted to me, “This was my 45th online date.” He brought a very thin blond woman, just newly widowed, who drove all the way from some place south of Fort Lauderdale to attend this spaghetti, feedlot experience as other retirement-types talked casually of meeting bodies of the opposite sex via cyberspace. Signing up to meet some man via an online arrangement in order to go out on a date at my age of 77 would be absolutely mortifying!  How could a woman preserve any semblance of dignity or expect some man to respect her if she meets people this way?  I’m sorry, but a woman is leaving herself open to all manner of dangers; and getting into a car with someone you don’t know horrifies me!  My ‘50s upbringing certainly drops “stop sticks” in front of me on this one.

What happened to a man vying for a woman’s favors, treating her with the respect due her, opening doors, calling her and not expecting her and other sexually depraved women to CALL HIM?  One doctor said STDs among seniors are running rampant at The Villages community near Orlando, FL.  A gynecologist said she had treated more cases “of Herpes and the Human Papilloma virus in the retirement community than she did in the city of Miami!”

If I can’t find some nice man who values me for what I am, not for what I put out, then I’ll just stay at home. Seeing white hair, bald domes, canes, and oversized Hobo purses struggling up to a cheap pizza place induces my cringe factor, big time.  When an Indiana man told me he went to the doctor to get those “blue pills,” I suggested to him he could go blind, too!  If aging women cannot find better ways to contribute to mankind, what can we expect from our male counterparts?

Obama’s CDC Has Stackable Coffins Ready…

CDC Obamas CDC has stackable coffins ready...

FEMA clearly is fast becoming the Obama administration’s secret in-country military operations that is scaring citizens out of their wits.  A video narrated by Dale Bohannan has popped up online with photos of what first appear to be porta-potties.  But on closer inspection, the black plastic containers are what the narrator reveals to be as many as 125,000 outsized casket liners that are in no way there to service the needs of live American citizens!

Bohannan drove down a newly cut road through a soybean field in Madison, Georgia and spoke with the field’s owner, who told him the Center for Disease Control (CDC) owned these coffin liners and was leasing his land for their storage!   “These are cremation containers for multiple bodies–patent # 5,425,163–burnable, (and) generate very little pollution.  They are multi-use cremation containers,” says an unidentified commenter to this video.  Further information claims that the lids have been modified so they could be STACKED easily because “Americans can withstand the notion of many bodies being thrown into these coffins far better than they could the sight of bulldozers tossing bodies in big holes as was seen after the large tsunami overseas.”

Images of these black, disposable coffins cement in the minds of many Americans the notion that our government is not to be trusted and that our government is not really looking out for us, but rather is looking out for the higher ups, the politicians, and the elites in Washington, D.C.

The first Amendment guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  But the newly updated manual for the 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Brigade Combat Team now stationed in various American states includes, for the first time, protocols for subduing civil unrest and crowd control of US citizens.  A federal manual being used by FEMA and the Joint Terror Task Force, “…gives the government the authority to step in and IMMEDIATELY crush any civil disturbance or turmoil which might occur.  Civil disturbances are defined as riots, acts of violence, insurrection, unlawful obstruction or assemblage or other disorders prejudicial to public law and order.” But who, exactly, will define “unlawful obstruction or assemblage” or “disorders prejudicial to public law and order?”

In 1968, Operation Garden Plot was initiated by the Department of Defense for the purpose of creating “…military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance…” But Americans have begun to ask who our government is preparing to fight and for what reasons! Why did Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security need 1.6 billion bullets and 7000 fully automatic rifles? (By the way, when purchased for the DHS, these rifles are called “personal defense weapons.” When you and I buy SEMI-automatic rifles, we are accused of owning “assault weapons.”)

What does she need all of those weapons for, all of those bullets? Who is the DHS preparing to kill?

Supreme Court To Conference On Obama Eligibility Today

Supreme Court building 2 SC Supreme Court to conference on Obama eligibility today

Today, February 15, 2013, Attorney Orly Taitz brings her request to move the Obama eligibility challenge from conference to the oral hearing stage at the US Supreme Court.  She is moving forward in spite of the fact that four African-American Supreme Court clerks refused to allow Taitz to see the signature of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who denied her petition originally.  “But I resubmitted to Justice Roberts, and he sent it to the conference,” Taitz said.

The California attorney is asking “…how do we know that he (Kennedy) ever saw the brief?”  In no uncertain terms, clerk James Baldin told her that “I (Taitz) [was] not allowed to see the signature.”   This denial of her right to see Kennedy’s signature “does not make any sense.”  Perhaps her Russian ancestry and background knowledge of the suppression of citizens caused her to note similarities with DC police actions that blocked “more and more streets” during Obama’s State of the Union address. The group of eligibility challengers were pushed farther and farther away, making it impossible for the public to see or question those who attended the event.  When school students touring the buildings came up to the Taitz group to ask questions, their teacher was said to have made them leave!

The crux of the Taitz challenge to Barack Obama’s legitimacy to serve as US President involves the following charges: use of forged IDs and a stolen CT Social Security number; last name not legally his; fraudulent claim to being US Citizen; legal last name is SOEBARKAH on certified copy of passport records of Obama’s mother S. Ann Dunham (Taitz is presenting this passport evidence!); Obama’s Indonesian school records show his citizenship to be Indonesian; credible expert testimony by law enforcement individuals in sworn affidavits showing the birth certificate and selective service certificates are forged; the 2009 Social Security number on Obama’s tax returns failed both E-Verify and SSNVUS.

Also, Attorney Taitz is presenting evidence that  1 1/2 million invalid voter registrations were filed in the state of California!  She is asking US citizens to “please, write and fax SCOTUS and demand to see the order by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who allegedly originally denied my case Noonan v Bowen before it was sent by Justice Roberts to the conference.”  Is not this the very least we can do to attempt to clear up this matter?

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Just Don’t Tell Them You’re From Chicago!

Chicago SC Just don’t tell them you’re from Chicago!

My heart is broken, deeply broken.  Is there no one in Illinois who has the moral compunction to stand up to the corruption known as Chicago?  Will any Illinois person of honor come forward to put a stop to what is going on?    When I received an anonymous E-mail about the Land of Lincoln–where our governors make our license plates–I couldn’t laugh anymore.  You see, there always has been a perverse sort of gallows humor, perhaps even misplaced sense of pride associated with Chicago.  When I tell people here in Florida that I’m from near Chicago, I sense that I have assumed a different status in their eyes.  One guy even stepped back, suddenly refusing to interrupt me anymore!

As the current all-Democrat Illinois legislature tried every way possible to pass a series of unconstitutional gun bans last week, three sitting lawmakers were facing criminal charges.  All Democrats from Chicago, they include taking a gun on a plane, bribery, and bank fraud.

Incredibly, during the last six months, 292 people were killed (a charge of manslaughter) or murdered in Chicago while only 221 were killed in Iraq! How ironic that the American city with the nation’s most oppressive gun laws boasts more killings than a hot war zone in which ALL combatants carry guns.

Illinois is noted for having the greatest number of imprisoned governors-FOUR-past or present!  Gov. Otto Kerner, Democrat, was sent up on 17 felony charges; Gov. Dan Walker,(D) went up for bank fraud; George Ryan (Rep) gets out this year after doing time for felony fraud and racketeering;  and Rod Blagojevich, who President Barack Obama said he only met with “infrequently” continues his stretch for 18 counts of political misconduct!

Operation Cookie Jar, a public schools sting, netted numerous arrests of school officials.  “Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country,” says my anonymous E mail.  Jesse Jackson, Jr. just resigned from Congress because of continuing allegations about improper expenditures of campaign funds!  A 2012 University of Illinois, Chicago campus report states: “The Chicago area already has the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction nationwide with more than 1,500 convictions in the Illinois Northern District.” And our state pension fund is financially the most precarious in the country with an unfunded liability of over $96 BILLION; yet the in-session legislature does nothing.

I remember walking with my grandmother through her beautiful flower gardens.  I can still taste the delicious homegrown tomatoes my uncle gave us.  I remember my father traveling once a month to Chicago to meet with other judges to do something about the election shenanigans after Mayor Daley Sr’s involvement in the “questionable” ascendancy of John F. Kennedy to the Presidency.  I’ll never forget seeing the walls of flames shoot up every night during the 1960s riots’ “Days of Rage.”

Illinois is a beautiful state with kind, lovely people, both rich and poor.  They do not deserve what is going on.  My daughter and her husband will have four sons in Illinois colleges and universities next year. They should not have to face the embarrassment I now do when I tell people I’m from Illinois!