The issues of high-speed rail and government control of the Internet and news media have been rising in popularity among the people of our state and nation.
First, local and state politicians have been pushing and deceiving the public with so called high-speed rail in Illinois.
By definition, high-speed rail is any passenger train that travels over 120 mph and the rail line being promised for Normal tops out at 110 mph and will average a speed of 56 mph reducing the current rail trip from Chicago to St. Louis from 5½ hours to 5 hours.
Second, The Obama administration has declared war on anyone from news organizations, bloggers and private citizens who oppose their policies. This is behavior that you would witness from Hugo Chavez, Castro or Mao Zedong, not from a president of the United States.
However, frustration turned to optimism once I found out that Kristina Rasmussen, executive vice president of the Illinois Policy Institute, who has been featured on CNN and CSPAN, and Jim Hoft, proprietor of the "Gateway Pundit," are coming to speak at the Illinois State University Alumni Center on Nov. 11.
Kristina Rasmussen is an expert on the myth of high-speed rail and Jim Hoft's blog is read by 1.5 million people each month and he is credited with forcing Obama's communist Green Czar Van Jones to resign.
An educated populace is the best defense against soft tyranny.
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