The only way to close this chapter is for Major League Baseball to go through a deep and intensive soul-searching....

By Adam Andrzejewski“These new reports in essence put the county’s checkbook online giving residents the ability to ensure their elected officials are being responsible with their hard earned money.� - Bob Grogan, DuPage County Auditor. Taking office on December 1,......

We've been preoccupied by chores and research, so today's digest will catch up on the news since Thursday. There's lots to post.Friday's Owatonna People's Press reports in Council: Federal money for flood projects too slow, unstable:So, the city has applied......

by Cal Skinner John Kass has finally given the average guy and gal the tool to contact President George W. Bush concerning Democratic Party United States Senator Dick Durbin's proposal for Bush to commute George Ryan's over six-year sentence. "You......

A video clip recently featured on Illinois Review extolling Teddy Roosevelt as a "progressive conservative" has stirred some offline discussion about whether Republicans should be so proud of TR and his political ideology after all.  Indeed, Roosevelt is criticized in Jonah Goldberg's...

submitted for publication by IR reader Republicans have always been a house divided.  In 1854, as the Whig party breathed its last, anti-slavery forces cobbled together a new coalition made up of widely-differing groups who nonetheless shared one priority: ridding the country of slavery.  ...

by John Bambenek and Adam Andrzejewski At an education policy conference, from the podium an Illinois state representative says, “we need your help…we [elected state reps] are clueless!� Springfield needs our help now, the clarion call cannot be more clear…$2 billion of unpaid bills; worst p...

You can't chair two committees. Them's the rules. So now that Henry Waxman has succeeded in wresting control of the Energy & Commerce Committee from John Dingell (a victory which Dingell has, in conciliatory fashion, congratulated Waxman), the chairmanship of the Oversight panel that Waxman led ...

I usually don't enjoy watching congressional hearings. They are often packed with blustering, long-winded, self-serving speeches that are nap-inducing....

The White House yesterday blocked a House committee's attempt to obtain internal FBI reports about the leak of a CIA officer's identity, asserting that notes from interviews of Vice President Cheney and other administration officials are protected by executive privilege....