Northern Illinois Patriots

The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” Namely, the only purpose of our Federal Government is to secure the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator.

When our government was first formed our freedoms were many and our restrictions were few. Today our freedoms are few and our restrictions are many. Government controls and dictates where we may live and the type of home we are allowed to occupy, what cars we may drive, how and where we may drive them.

They control the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the schools are children may attend and what they will learn. They restrict what we are allowed to hear and see, what we may say and how we must say it. They regulate how we are allowed to discipline our children. They regulate the air we breathe and the water we drink.

But our government has not taken our rights; we have willingly ceded them to an omnipotent and omniscient group of elitists. With the recent passage of Obamacare we have now relinquished control of our medical care. A government that is powerful enough to give us everything we want will take away all that we have. We must ask ourselves, Is this how our Founding Fathers would have defined Freedom?           

First it was global cooling; our planet would become one large Popsicle. Then it was global warming; our planet would become one large cinder. Because neither of the first two scenarios happened, they decided to call it global climate change. Now they had both bases covered. Global climate change was proved to be a hoax. The University of East Anglia in England falsified data to push their ideological agenda. When the lies were exposed Professor Phil Jones had to admit that there was no significant warming over the past 15 years and that is was likely that our climate was even warmer during medieval times when man was not a contributing factor.  The scandal was dubbed “climategate”. But they remained undeterred.

But now comes even more bad news. Erupting volcanoes have offset recent Earth warming, according to a team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Researchers came to this conclusion after searching for clues as to why Earth did not warm as much as climatologists expected between 2000 and 2010. Actually the news is not really shocking. A host of scientists have been debunking the populist theory for decades. Early studies failed to take into account solar activity and vast historical data on interglacial periods of warming and cooling since the existence of our planet. The Great Lakes formed from glaciers during a period of warming long before man was a potential factor.

Global climate change fanatics have used increases in carbon dioxide as their rallying point to convince people that we and we alone are responsible for any increases in temperature. There is an old expression, “Correlation does not mean causation.” If we follow their logic: man spews carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide traps solar radiation, the planet heats up, and we die. They dismiss the equally plausible argument that as our planet warms up in a cyclical manner, ice melts, land masses are exposed, plants grow, and insects and animals thrive. As plants, insects, and animals die or continue respiration, carbon dioxide is released. So, it is our planet’s cyclical warming that increases the levels of carbon dioxide not the increase in carbon dioxide caused by man that is raising the planet’s temperature.

But it has never been about the science of climate change, it has always been about furthering the agenda of Liberals and their ravenous appetite for the power to control every aspect of our lives. What we are experiencing is not Global Climate Change but Global Climate Shame.

The only thing in greater jeopardy than the Antarctic Ice Sheet is scientists claiming jeopardy of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. From the latest ice core analysis, it turns out that ice sheet melts are not that unusual in terms of melting.

Recently published research from a large team of scientist using deep ice cores from the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide dating back some 2,000 years confirmed what many scientists have already been saying. Recent melting in this area is in fact normal.

If we looked back at this region of Antarctica in the 1940’s and 1830’s we would find that the regional climate would look a lot like it does today. Glaciers would be retreating much as they are today. As with many climate change issues, conditions in the Western Antarctic vary so much over short time scales that it is hard to determine if any long term changes are actually happening.

Another ice study of the Antarctic Peninsula also concluded that melting there is not unprecedented. Large pieces of ice in that area probably broke of or melted at times in the pre-industrial past.

Because these findings do not conform to Liberal ideological talking points they likely will go unreported. Their agenda and not the truth is their real objective. Fact has become fiction and fiction has become fact. For Liberals and the Democratic Party the most recent scientific findings on melting ice are More Bad News

While it is difficult to place Vladimir Putin on a pedestal, on the issue of immigration and immigrants he has it right.

On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Russian Parliament and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia: "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Shari'ya Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians.

Legal immigrants come of their own free will. They choose to become citizens of their own free will. It is not the responsibility of a nation to assimilate their culture into the culture of the immigrant it is the responsibility of the immigrant to assimilate into the culture of nation he has chosen. A nation without borders is not a nation. A nation without a culture, a history, a moral compass, and traditions is not a nation. When it comes to Vladimir Putin, the question of immigration was Put In Perspective.

Please check out the top posting on the ISRA website, titled The Foolishness Continues.  It is incredible that our elected officials are willing to work against us in this way!

Click here for the article.

Anyone who knows of John Bolton knows he is a very serious man, one of the very top minds we have for foreign intelligence in the nation.  Here's what he had to say about the upcoming Benghazi hearings in the House this week:  click here for article.

While some people may be looking at North Korea’s leader Kim Jung Un and laughing at his threat to launch a missile attack on the United States it is actually North Korea and the rest of the world that is laughing at the United States. Kim Jung Un makes such threats only because he is convinced that United States, specifically President Obama, does not have the resolve or the inclination to meet such a challenge.

 Given the quirky and unpredictable nature of the young leader Kim Jung Un should not be dismissed so easily. With each new threat and the corresponding capitulation by our leaders Kim has continued to up the ante. North Korea has a long history of aggression. In 1958 they hijacked an airliner. In 1968 they attempted to assassinate the leader of South Korea. In that same year they held the USS Pueblo and its crew members hostage.

 In 1974 they made another assassination attempt. In 1987 they bombed a South Korean airliner, killing 115 passengers and its crew. In 1994 they shot down a US helicopter and in 2003 they shot down a US reconnaissance plane. Recently they torpedoed a South Korean boat, killing 47 sailors.

 Such attacks have been met with little or no resistance. It is no small wonder that North Korean leaders feel they can strike at will with impunity. As Ronald Reagan said, “Of the four years he has seen in his lifetime none came about because we were too strong.” Our withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and the drawing down of our military capabilities has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. Our once fearsome reputation as a ferocious tiger has been replaced by a Paper Tiger.

When the jobs gains were posted for March it was yet another reminder that the reported drop in the unemployment rate from 7.7% to 7.6% does not begin to tell the real story. The real unemployment rate is closer to 14%. A paltry 88,000 jobs were created, with most of those jobs being part time, temporary, or low paying jobs. Economists predicted a gain of 190,000 jobs. Over half a million people stopped looking for work.

The labor participation rate fell again to 63.3%, the lowest level since December 2007. Over 90 million people are out of work. There are 7 million fewer people working now than when President Obama took office. People who live in the real world know the job market has not improved. Many college graduates are working at low paying jobs not utilizing their educational background. Young people and minorities have been particularly hard hit.

Was there any real expectation that a President with no business, economic, or management experience would have the knowledge and expertise to understand the fundamentals of job creation? His policies of onerous regulations and burdensome taxation only serve to reduce the prospects of meaningful job formation. But rather than man up and take responsibility for the dismal job numbers President Obama chooses instead to blame the sequester and Republicans.

The sequester was a plan created by the President. The anemic cut of 2.4% in spending has absolutely no effect on job creation. The sequester does not cut spending it merely slows the rate of increase in government spending. Until voters wake up and demand government get out of the way of business we will continue to see an inexorable decline in the US job market. The pathetic jobs gain in March was just another Another Reality Check. 

Yesterday, Sunday 14 April. The Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced that it will back the Manchin-Toomey bill. That is to endorse the universal background checks of the current gun control legislation.

    Follow the link below.

    Personally I am disgusted with this decision and have withdrawn my support and membership from this group. I am a Life Member of the NRA and a member of the ISRA amongst other shooting sports organizations.

   The discussion before the Senate should not even be an issue. Federal background checks are quite simply un-constitutional. Federal mandate of such is a definite "INFRINGEMENT" of our Second Amendment Rights. What part of "shall NOT be infringed" is so difficult to understand?

   To top it all off there were 16 Republican Senators that sided with the Progressive Fascists to prevent a filibuster of the proceedings. Yes and Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk was one of the turn-coat sixteen.

     Friends, it is time to start writing letters and making phone calls / faxes. I already started, please join me? 

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Kansas has chosen to go where few dare to go. Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure Friday night. The bill declares that life begins "at fertilization" and blocked tax breaks for abortion providers. The bill also banned abortions performed solely because of the baby's sex.

The bill prohibits abortion providers from being involved in public school sex education classes and spells out in greater detail what information doctors must provide to patients seeking abortions. Pro-Abortionists consider any limitations on abortions a violation of their “perceived right to privacy and their perceived right to choose.” The fact is: the only rights that have been violated are the rights of millions of unborn infants endowed by their Creator, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their rights to due process and equal protection.

If we can guarantee those rights to terrorists can we not guarantee those same rights to the most innocent and most vulnerable? While Liberals are repulsed by images of Holocaust victims, targets of ethnic genocide, they are totally unmoved by the relentless slaughter of unborn infants.

Abortion is not about the safeguarding the right of a woman to make decisions about her body, it is about the moral responsibility of society to protect the right to life of every individual, regardless of race, creed, gender, age, or degree of development. If an unborn infant is not life then why perform an abortion?  If that unborn life is not human then what life form is it?

It is encouraging to see that at least one state has the courage to defend all human lives, to do what is right, not what is popular. Abortion is the single greatest assault on human life in the history of mankind. While many people and our government choose to deny the existence of a being greater that themselves they will be held accountable for their actions, if not in this life, then surely the next. Our Constitution is not about protecting perceived government endowed rights it is about Protecting the Innocent.