September 12th, 2006 - Monica Lewinsky, Ray LaHood and 9/11

On the 5th anniversary of 9/11, the Republicans desperately trying to save their majorities in the House and the Senate have turned to blaming Bill Clinton for the tragedy of 9/11.
It goes something like this; if it hadn’t been for the distraction of the Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton would have been better able to have […]

September 2nd, 2006 - OSHA, doing its job?

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is charged with ensuring American workers have a safe working environment.  Workers I’ve talked to in Central Illinois say OSHA is falling down on the job. Why?
Generally when a worker detects a unsafe condition he or she has the right to file a complaint with OSHA. OSHA investigates the complaint, […]

August 31st, 2006 - China’s Forced Abortions

People the world over are rightfully outraged over Chinese policy that forces abortions upon often unwilling women as a way of controlling the growing Chinese population.

It’s clear that world opinion has had no major influence over the Chinese government on this issue. It’s just as clear that the only sure way that forced abortions will […]

August 28th, 2006 - Campaign Handout

Ray LaHood doesn’t support Federally funded stem cell research

August 23rd, 2006 - LaHood talks straight up to Manito-FC Rotarians

So reads the headline in the Mason County Democrat, August 23 edition by Wendy Martin. I know Wendy Martin and she’s a good reporter, gets her facts right,  but when Congressman LaHood’s straight talk is just an illusion, what’s a small town reporter to do?  Point out how wrong he is? Not likely, not safe if […]

August 21st, 2006 - Campaign Humor

A longtime politician (Congressman) died and went to the Pearly Gates, meeting St Peter there. St. Peter tells the politician because of his special status he gets to spend an hour in HELL and an hour in HEAVEN and then go to where ever he wants. 
In Hell the Congressman meets the Devil and finds it […]

August 20th, 2006 - Ray LaHood, Friend or Foe to PBS and Peoria’s Channel 47

According to the Boston Globe’s Website on a party-line vote, a House Appropriations subcommittee approved cuts of 23% to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. These cuts likely are only the beginning of the Conservative Republican goal to completely eliminate federal funding for one of the last remaining sources of television’s credible "watchdog journalism".  See […]

August 11th, 2006 - Five years of a Failed War on Terrorism

Like it was yesterday, I remember my thoughts after the 911 attack on America. First, that the people who did this will be hunted down and receive the kind of punishment they deserve. My second thought was that finally our country will return to being serious about energy independence, like in the […]

August 9th, 2006 - Caterpillar, A World Corporation

If there was any doubt that Caterpillar Inc no longer considers itself an American Corporation, those doubts should have vanished when the company recently announced its intentions to build its 14th plant in China.  Cat obviously sees itself as a world corporation.  As a world corporation it internally has only one allegiance and that’s to […]

August 7th, 2006 - Tom DeLay, Ray LaHood, and My Father

On June 15, 1944, my Dad, James Waterworth, and 20,000 Marines engaged the Japanese who had invaded the Northern Mariana island of Saipan.  After 35 days of fierce fighting, 3,426 Americans were dead and 13,110 wounded.  Of the 180 original men of my Dad’s Marine Company (I-3-8) that started the War, only two were left […]