At the beginning of February, the Illinois Supreme Court handed down a decision deeming caps on medical malpractice lawsuit awards unconstitutional. This allows juries to have free rein to award any monetary value that they see fit to a person who sues a doctor for medical malpractice. This decision has …
We in America are criticized by Muslims worldwide, by many American “progressives” and by our own president for lacking “tolerance” for the religion of Islam. Muslims in the United States enjoy the freedom of speech and freedom of religion granted them by the US Constitution. At this recent speaking engagement at …
The “intellectual elite” in Washington often act on the presumption they know better than we do, and that we must trust them to make decisions far too complex for us to possibly comprehend. Perhaps that would explain their lack of what we call “common sense”, and our president’s latest responses …
The World Affairs Council of Central Illinois (WACCI) will be hosting a Citizens Forum on Foreign Policy this Friday night, February 19, 2010, from 7-9PM. This forum will be held at the Dove Center at St. John’s Hospital (at 6th and Mason Streets in Springfield). Refreshments will be served and no …
Tickets for Glenn Beck’s American Revival Tour go on sale Monday, February 15th. The Glenn Beck Insider pre-sale began on Wednesday, February 10th, and has now concluded.
The Central Illinois 9/12 Project Preparedness Planning Committee is gathering regularly to discuss what we as individuals can do to prepare ourselves and our families for situations involving physical and/or financial disaster. Discussion at these meetings has led to this first initiative of creating a list of resources that can …
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865
February 12 marks the 201st birthday of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln governed our nation during arguably the most domestically tumultuous time in our nation’s history. In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln delivered one …














