Student activists to lead upcoming Wheaton forum on Second Amendment

Rosanna Pulido, who ran as the Republican candidate for Illinois’ 5th Congressional District earlier this year, sent me this morning an update on the upcoming gun-rights forum with the theme, “Education is our best defense.”
Here is her e-mail:
“At Wheaton City Hall council chambers [303 W. Wesley St.], our future student leaders/high school students who are [...]

Political group uses twisted logic to criticize local official

One political organization was a tad misleading in the “robocalls” it made recently to constituents of U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-13th District, of Hinsdale.
Accountable America paid for robocalls made April 15 to people living in the 13th Congressional District. According to the story by Nathaniel Zimmer in the April 24 edition of the SouthtownStar, the [...]

Video clips of recent gun-control forum in Wheaton made available

An enterprising reader called Illinois Patriot sent me video clips of the April 21 gun-control forum held in Wheaton by the League of Women Voters and the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. This will allow people who weren’t in the Wheaton City Hall this past week for the event to get a sense of [...]

WAY PAST EXCELLENT: Diersen and Pulido to present ‘The Other Opinion’ in Wheaton on issue of gun rights

Free speech may be in trouble in Naperville, but it’s thriving in Wheaton these days.
Community members showed earlier this week they wouldn’t walk away quietly from the issue of gun rights during a forum held in the City Council chambers in City Hall. Members of the League of Women Voters held the forum, originally designed [...]

SURPASSING OUTLANDISH: Diersen’s Freudian slip is showing

A friend with a sharp eye alerted me to not one but two faux pas in today’s edition of GOPUSA Illinois. Edited by my longtime buddy Dave Diersen of Wheaton, the daily list of news articles and blog postings begins today with this item:
NAPERVILLE SUN
– DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: 14 CITED FOR PUBIC URINATION IN [...]

League of Women Voters members ill-equipped to debate gun-control issue

One of my favorite biblical verses is from 1 Peter 3:15:
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
While this admonition is directed at Christians, it could well apply to anyone who is advocating some cause. For if they can’t address why [...]

Community members had the right to protest Ayers’ visit to school, but not to point of coercion

An ongoing debate about free speech in Naperville has caused a lot of talk.
A few weeks ago Naperville North High School had offered an invitation to Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, to speak to a class of seniors. Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville also scheduled a book-signing event featuring Ayers the same night.
But a [...]

Blog warns that California group is coming for your guns

The blog Illinois Review posted an entry yesterday about a forum being held tonight in Wheaton by Legal Community Against Violence, a “California-based anti-gun group.” The blog posting warned, “The purpose of the forum will be to blame law-abiding gun owners for criminal violence and spread lies about private firearm ownership.”
The forum will be held [...]

Did Diersen agree with Catholics opposed to Bush at Notre Dame?

On the Web site GOPUSA Illinois yesterday (you’ll have to click News Clips on the left-hand side of the homepage and then click April 19 when this section opens), my very close and personal friend Dave Diersen of Wheaton linked to a story from the State Journal Register in Springfield about the controversy surrounding President [...]

How about a referendum on candidates’ “nicknames”?

Most people would consider this an incredibly minor thing at election time, but it bugs the hell out of me. Yes, I’m officially classifying it as a pet peeve.
So what is about the campaign season that irks me the most? It’s when candidates list their names as well their “nicknames,” set off( as you can) [...]