Announcements

CHICAGO TEA PARTY MARCH MEETING: Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Details here.

Register here.

Speakers:

David Hale, Rockford Tea Party Organizer. David has successfully confronted the runaway Wisconsin State Senators on multiple occasions. Videos of the confrontations have gone viral and received national attention because David asked them questions the media is not asking.
 
Bruno Behrend, Director of the Center for School Reform with the Heartland Institute. Bruno will discuss education reform, pension reform, the situation in Madison, WI, and what the tea party movement in Illinois can do to bring reform here.
 
Brian Costin, Director of Outreach at the Illinois Policy Institute. Brian heads up IPI’s Liberty Leaders program. Brian helped organize the first Chicago Tax Day Tea Party and is now running for Mayor of Schaumburg in the April 5 election.

I plan to be there.

“Decision-Making in the Pressure Cooker: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Lehman Brothers”

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Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Catholic Lawyers Guild.

Thursday, March 3, 5:30 PM, Jenner & Block, 353 North Clark Street.

Info here.

Register here.

The speaker whom I am most interested in hearing is Luigi Zingales. I mentioned his essay Capitalism After the Crisis in this post. Zingales was one of the economists who urged Congress to hold hold hearings on the Paulson bailout plan, and as we know that did not happen. I just read his essay Learning to live with not-so-efficient markets, which I commend to your attention. A compendium of his recent writing, entitled “MY LOSING BATTLE AGAINST THE LEVIATHAN (Public interventions of a desperate free-market economist” can be found here.

March 10, 2011: Illinois Rally for Concealed Carry

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From the Illinois State Rifle Association:

Last year the ISRA won McDonald v Chicago. This year, with your assistance, it will be concealed carry!
 
We need your help, now more than ever. We need everyone concerned with firearm rights in Springfield on March 10th for our Gun Owners Lobby Day, (IGOLD)! Each year we have built on the success of previous’ years events and this year promises to be the biggest and best ever IGOLD. We are growing towards 10,000 people! Don’t sit home, we need you there!
 
With the major wins of Heller v DC and McDonald V Chicago, added into the recent midterm elections, the political tide is changing, but as close as we are, we can’t get concealed carry legislation passed in Illinois without your help. We need you, your friends, your relatives, anyone that agrees with you that “It’s Time” for concealed carry in Illinois. In 48 states private citizens currently enjoy the ability to carry a defensive firearm outside their home. Wisconsin, where it is legal to openly carry firearms, has a new Governor and their legislature has made it clear that they will pass concealed carry this session. That will make 49 states where the concealed carry of firearms for personal defense is legal. “It’s Time” that Illinois ends its ban on the ability of its honest law abiding citizens to carry the same firearms. Criminals have had the advantage long enough as they have been carrying concealed in Illinois for ages! The law abiding should not be put at a deadly disadvantage because of convoluted political rhetoric.
 
Join me in Springfield on March 10th. Once you get there, (buses are available from all corners of the state), we’ll show you the who, what and where you need to know to effectively lobby your own state representative and state senator!
 
I’m looking forward to seeing you there and with all of your help, this will be the year that Illinois joins the rest of the country in celebrating the Second Amendment’s right to carry!
 
Continue below this letter for important IGOLD information.
 
Respectfully,
 
Don Moran
President
Illinois State Rifle Association
www.isra.org


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