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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Tea Party Members of KCAP endorse Proft, Lowery, Hultgren [Illinois primary] from KCAP KCAP consisting of 300 Kane County affiliated precinct committeemen candidates, after completing thorough research assignments, agreed at their endorsement meeting Tuesday night that Proft is their choice for Governor citing aspects of his ‘policy revolution,’ focus on K-12 education and stand up posture as critical to leading the state. Judge Lowery, in the senate race, got the affirmation as the conservative with the genuine record and gravitas to strike an important contrast with Kirk in the primary and clearly provide the best...

Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, or Evan Bayh? Oh, you silly country rubes. There is not an audacious name in that bunch. On Saturday, Barack Obama will return to the initial scene of his crimes against humanity with his vice presidential choice in tow. That choice? Does the phrase, "We're putting the band back together," mean anything to you, Chicago? That's right, Obama's choice will be a friend to lobbyists big and small, the master of economic disaster, a man of few usually unintelligible words, and the man at whose ample teet Obama suckled for his seven vanilla years in the...

OPINION -- Since the inception of the Illinois Leader, this outlet has sought to confront the divisions within the conservative movement in Illinois and provide a forum for peaceable resolutions to disagreements between the 80 percenters around the state. The Leader’s experience establishing credibility both within the movement as well as within journalistic circles has, in many respects, been a case study as to why conservatives have struggled to represent the strength of their numbers and, consequently, why conservatives have achieved limited success in statewide electoral politics. It’s no secret that the core group who launched the Leader worked together...