Don’t mind the dismal economy, local governments want more of your money

Prepare your wallet to get squeezed again.
Since 2000, there has been an effort to have the U.S. Congress pass legislation in compliance with the Streamlined Sales Tax Project. This is a bureaucratic way of saying that local governments want more of your hard-earned money. They’re not entitled to it now under the law, but approving [...]

Kaiser Watch: Dave Diersen has shocking take on speech given by U.S. attorney general

Which of these do you find more incendiary?
“MOORE HEADLINE: Dave Diersen of Wheaton doesn’t believe racial minorities are Americans”
or
“MOORE HEADLINE: Dave Diersen of Wheaton creates public persona as Web site editor — without ever learning how to read”
It’s been quite a while since my blog has featured my very close friend Dave Diersen of Wheaton, editor of [...]

Like the crooks on Wall Street, greed is driving government officials insane

Does anyone truly believe that the root cause of our economic woes is that we have far too few roads? Or that we don’t have a sufficient number of school construction projects going on?
How about Pell Grants to college students? Did the financial industry implode last year because the government hasn’t issued enough of them? [...]

State officials must get tough on people who drive cars while intoxicated

How is it that some repeat DUI offender doesn’t receive any jail time until he commits his fifth arrest?
John Ambrose, a 51-year-old Batavia resident, was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday in a Kane County courtroom. He was arrested Sept. 14 driving eastbound on I-88 near the Orchard Road exit. He was clocked by [...]

Congress, Obama coddle stragglers in push to convert to digital television

I wish the federal government would grow a backbone.
President Obama sadly made a request of Congress, which Congress even more sadly granted, that the deadline for television stations switching over to all-digital broadcasts be extended from Feb. 17 to June 12. The drive to get all stations to convert from analog broadcasts to digital broadcasts [...]

Roosevelt serves as example of what not to do during economic crisis

The Democratic Party of DuPage County pulled in the big guns Sunday to press the case about the urgent need for a massive economic stimulus plan.
At the Presidents Day Gala at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace, President Franklin Roosevelt made an appearance. I’m presuming that since FDR died in April 1945, the [...]

Chicago Cub-dome demands deep devotion and even deeper pockets

Killing some time yesterday in a local sporting goods store, I came across an item that truly amused me.
The store had quite a display of professional baseball merchandise, virtually all of it promoting the Chicago Cubs. I’d say the ratio of Cubs paraphernalia to Chicago White Sox items easily ran five-to-one. For some unsettling reason, [...]

‘Nightline’ appearance last week too much for Drew Peterson’s fiancee

I hope everyone is happy.
Drew Peterson, the beseiged former Bolingbrook police sergeant, recently lost the love of his love (at least the love of his life for January). After seeing him make an appearance Thursday on ABC’s “Nightline,” his fiancee started packing her bags and moved out.
Something about Peterson’s segment must have raised a red [...]