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Email from our friends at the Ford County Pheasants Forever Young Guns chapter:   Here is the flyer for the women's shoot which will be held this Friday night at 5:00 at the Foosland Sportsmens Club.  I know the flyer says 6 but we will start earlier if we have…

    ISRA SPECIAL ALERT - NILES ZONING COMMISSION UPSETS MOMS' APPLE CART (Illinois State Rifle Association) - The shrill voice of extremism echoed through the halls of the Niles Community Center on Monday night as the Bloomberg Moms tried without success to block a special use permit that would…

Thinking about buying furniture? Scratch IKEA off your list of potential stores to shop if you're a gun owner and we'll tell you why:   IKEA doesn't want your business because they really, really don't like guns. How much does IKEA dislike the idea of card-carrying good guys packing heat in…

Joe Biden. Bless his heart. At least most of the time he's a somewhat likeable bigot, or creepy old man, depending on the day of the week and who he is insulting with sometimes crude stereotypes. [caption id="attachment_12799" align="alignright" width="400"] Joe "Combover" Biden in the 80s, left, and today.[/caption] John…

[caption id="attachment_12795" align="alignnone" width="609"] Garry McCarthy. Street-light assassin.[/caption]   Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was crediting his policing strategies earlier this year when crime was down. Chicago (Tribune) – Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Wednesday said the number of shootings, particularly gang-related ones, has dropped sharply in the first…

Happy Independence Day. Chicago marked the occasion with celebratory fireworks, and unlike most civilized communities in America, an abundance gunfire aimed at other people. The LA Times is now reporting that 82 people were shot over the weekend and 14 killed in the senseless inner-city violence that is Chicago. We…

Thugs in Chicago: sit up and take note. More and more Chicago residents have concealed carry licenses now, and know how to use their pistols. Denzel A. Mickiel learned the hard way that good guys in Illinois sometimes carry guns - and they don't shoot sideways, over their head or…

  Michael Bloomberg likes his girls high end. He's got a stable of them working for him in one way or another. His best girl?  Is it Shannon Watts <aka Shannon Troughton, President and owner of of VoxPop Public Relations, a boutique liberal PR firm>?  Nope. [caption id="attachment_12757" align="alignright" width="300"]…

  [caption id="attachment_12775" align="alignnone" width="600"] Former Air Force reservist Michael Thomas says he doesn't know why a special review board denied his application for a concealed carry license. “I have never been arrested or convicted of any offense, either misdemeanor or felony, in the state of Illinois or any other…

Rahm Emanuel doesn't care. It's not his money. He and his merry band of gun-hating Democrat Machine politicians in Chicago keep defending the indefensible. And they keep losing and paying the legal bills for all of it. The latest bill came yesterday:  $940,000. And the same law firm is poised…